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Transgender Sex Change Rip-off: a Bogus Procedure

I wonder how many of us would have choosen the surgery if

-- Surgeons had the courage to tell us the truth (your gender did not change) and

-- The legal system was willing to be factual and tell the transgender: "Your gender did not change, although cosmetically you look like you did."

We transgenders have been lied to all these years. Doctors and surgeons have been ripping us off because they told us we indeed would be changed from a man into a real woman after the gender change surgery. However, the surgery only castrates the male but even at that you can get a change to a phony birth record.

A physician wrote me with a message for those surgeons and doctors:

I say that you have caused untold amounts of post-ops to commit suicide by selling a phony gender change and then with impunity to claim a physician's patriarchal arrogance. Those physicians should be the ones jumping off bridges and you can tell them that an anonymous physician told you so.

The deaths, the regret, the reversal surgeries and lies need to stop. The suicides should be investigated as a crime by surgeons against people with untreated mental illness and research studies have proven that to be true.

This whistle blowing physician also says,

I want to prevent suicides also and I suggested the Dr. Ihlenfeld report that I sent to you where he states [thirty years ago] that 80% should not transition. Likely nowadays it would be 90-95% that should not transition.

So the transgender sex change is a rip-off because:

1.  The gender reassignment surgery will not change anyone from a male to a female or female to a male.
2. They are operating on good people who have not been properly evaluated by a team of specialists to make sure the prospective transgender is psychologically stable and free of depression, anxiety, bi-polar, schizophrenia, dissociation or any personality disorder and does not have a history of suicide ideation or attempted suicide.
3. The best the gender surgery can do is make a person look different cosmetically.

You, the patient, must understand there are no guarantees that any amount of psychotherapy, intensive psychology testing, and group therapy will prevent suicide or regret. Just remember the surgeons can't change you from a male into a normal female--your body and the surgeons have limitations.

Even if you are delusional enough to believe you can change genders there is no guarantee during or after your transition that you will not commit suicide. Regret evolves after changing genders. Even if at first you think you will benefit from the radical gender change, that feeling can fade in the face of real life and life will be no cupcake out there for transgenders over the long term.

The ripped-off transgender will be able to get a phony birth record. Regret and suicide risks will remain high as long as suicide prevention remains a side show.

Walt Heyer, the Maverick Transgender

www.sexchangeregret.com

See supporting evidence in previous blog posts:
4/30/2013 Physician Says: "We have willfully failed"
5/6/2013 Transgenders, 4 Studies Say it's Mental Disorders

 

Transgenders, 4 Studies Say It's Mental Disorders

Perhaps it's time to pound the drums more loudly than ever about what I think as the greatest medical fraud in our nation’s history. 30% of transgenders commit suicide because their mental disorders remain undiagnosed, and as such will not be treated.

I have long held that individuals who suffer from gender distress have one of handful of unresolved mental illnesses that exists side by side with their gender stress. The gender distress is not acting alone but binds with an additional co-morbid mental illness. “We found 90% of these diverse patients had at least one other significant form of “psychopathology” says a study reported in 2009 by the Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The psychopathologies they found in their study were “mood and anxiety regulation and adaption in the world”. (1)

Everywhere we see the constant rhetoric about gender change success and yet not one sound media report that acknowledges 30% of transgenders commit suicide because of untreated mental illness.

Suicide.org states that 90% of all suicides are the direct result of untreated mental illness.

What other treatment focuses on surgery while 30% of the patients commit suicide?

Frankly, the professional and media slobber all over themselves to maintain political correctness. Most of the voices and media blindly talk about the long-term value of a gender transition and hormones treatments, suggesting transgenders lives are improved when the truth is, their lives are often worse because of their untreated mental illness evidenced by their 30% suicide rate. The surgery has failed to resolve the gender distress and often elevates their anxiety and depression.

You can see for yourself this study (1) has concerns about those who care for transgendered adults and the media for spinning rhetoric that transsexualism is a civil rights issue. Concern because they do not disclose that nearly 90% of the time transgenders suffer serious mental issues, disorders that are causing their regret and premature deaths. An ongoing mental health issue, for sure.

As a transgender I do not feel transgenders have a legitimate civil rights issue but do have a legitimate mental health concern. If in fact we want to prevent their suicides we need to focus on the issues of suicides. Making transgenders a civil rights issue will not reduce suicides, not at all.

There are other studies, all ignored by the gender changing advocates. Studies from Sweden, Denmark and also a 2013 study showing 90% of transgenders have mental disorders consisting of depression and anxiety--known causes of suicide. These studies provide irrefutable evidence transgenders overwhelmingly suffer from untreated mental disorders. Gender surgery is not the required treatment for depression and anxiety or other transgender mental disorders.

The Swedish study concludes: “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior” (2)

The Dutch study results state In 270 (75%) of these 359 patients, cross-gender identification was interpreted as an epiphenomenon of other psychiatric illnesses, notably personality, mood, dissociative, and psychotic disorders. Major mood disorders, dissociative disorders and psychotic disorders reported in 79% of transgenders. This should be alarming. (3)

The 2013 study results suggest there is a need for practitioners to focus on interventions in helping transgenders with coping skills (adaption in the world) in order to improve mental health for transgender individuals. (4)

But if the professionals who treat transgenders remain unwilling to "come out" about the mental disorders nothing will change in their diagnosis or treatment. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. They’ve got the insanity going on.

I’m not a doctor or a psychologist, but if I can see the overwhelming evidence showing that mental illness is behind gender stress, shouldn’t the medical professionals see it?

Insanity is to focus on XY and XX patterns, hormone treatments and surgery or born in the wrong body, when it's mental illness.

Walt Heyer, The Maverick Transgender

www.sexchangeregret.com

References: 

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19105079

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364939

3. http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=176330

4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23398495

Physician says, “We have willfully failed”

In his startling whistleblower-type letters to me in April 2013 a physician speaks out:

 Any physician worthy of his degree must treat ONLY with the Hippocratic Oath. First do no harm. In this regard, we have willfully failed.

 -- There is no female brain in the wrong male body

-- Current studies do not support the transsexual condition

-- Nor do the current studies support the Harry Benjamin Syndrome.

Please don't mention my name. You would be surprised at the hostility of transsexual persons against physicians. I really do think that lots of physicians are very intimidated by them. The patients use the physicians and the physicians use the patients. It is deplorable.

This physician tells me after many years of actively writing articles to support the need for surgery he now has great concerns, as he admits,

We have failed those with gender identity problems miserably.

The doctor wants me to report several things you need to know. 

A study of 1986 [1] disproved all of the other studies that suggested that H-Y antigen caused transsexualism.

The 2013 Rome study and the 2009 Japan study reported in my blog on April 6th disproved any alterations in the DNA of the main sex determining genes in transsexuals, proving transgenders are normal males, not a smidgeon of abnormality exists in the genetic make-up of transgenders. The males are normal. We now know gender issues are psychosocial or psychological, and perhaps psychiatric issues exist in transgenders which manifest in gender identity issues. The staggering suicide rates are evidence that changing genders is causing harm.

Walt, I agree with you. We should have seen this disaster in the making. Here is a link to an article from 1979 with quotes from Harry Benjamin's colleague, Dr. Charles Ihlenfeld.

Quote from the article:

Among the reasons for exercising extreme care in giving hormones, according to Ihlenfeld, is the fact that 80 percent of the patients who want to change their sex shouldn't do it. "There is too much unhappiness among people who have had the surgery," he said. "Too many of them end as suicides." [2]

I’m grateful this physician stepped forward and I hope more are willing to talk about the failure of gender surgery. 

Walt Heyer, the maverick transgender

www.sexchangeregret.com

References:

[1]  Stephen Wachtel Ph.D., Richard Green M.D., Neal G. Simon Ph.D., Alison Reichart, Linda Cahill, John Hall, Dean Nakamura, Gwendolyn Wachtel, Walter Futterweit M.D., Stanley H. Biber M.D., Charles Ihlenfeld M.D., “On the expression of H-Y antigen in transsexuals”, Archives of Sexual Behavior, February 1986, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp 51-68, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01542304?LI=true#page-1

[2] Garrett Oppenheim, Ph.D., “Ihlenfeld Cautions On Hormones”, TRANSITION, No. 8 - January/February 1979 Copyright 1979 - TRANSITION/ SOURCE: J2CP Information Services, http://lvtgw.jadephoenix.org/Info_htm/Herbal_G/ginko_b2.htm

Transsexuals (a.k.a. Gender Imposters) Have 51% Higher Rate of Death

Here's another one --

A 2011 long-term follow-up study of mortality in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones in the Netherlands finds that:

In the MtF group [966 individuals], total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from increased mortality rates due to suicide, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, cardiovascular disease, drug abuse, and unknown cause.(1)

We have additional evidence in a Swedish review of 324 transgenders over 30 years which found “higher risk for mortality” for people who underwent the surgery:

Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. (2)

 As if we need more evidence that the risk of death is extremely high among gender changers here is yet another statistic that should cause a federal investigation into the fraud of surgical genders:

Some studies indicate that the rate of attempted suicide for transgender youth is higher than 50%. (3)

 If someone doesn't put a halt to this gender madness soon they will take babies from their cribs and inject them with hormone blockers. We are placing kids and adults at very high risk of unnecessary deaths in a “Dr. Frankenstein like” surgical fabrication of gender imposters.

The studies show kids and adults are dying and are committing suicide. We are told that gender changing is a complete success when the research studies suggest changing genders is much more a slow death sentence and no one gives a rip. 

We know from the 2013 Rome study (4) and the 2009 Japan study (5) that transgenders are no different genetically than normal males. So then the suggestion that the surgery is surgically correcting the body to fix a gender defect is completely false. The only conclusion is the sex change surgery is a medical surgical fraud. The surgery can only fabricate gender imposters because the people after surgery are just normal males with psychological problems. 

You may not like my reporting of the studies. For me, I don't think reporting or not reporting is the issue because it does not change the results. I do not like the results being found--they show how deadly changing genders can be. I’m wondering who cares except for me?

 Walt Heyer

The Maverick Transgender  

www.sexchangeregret.com

 

References

1. Netherlands study

A long-term follow-up study of mortality in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones.

Asscheman H, Giltay EJ, Megens JA, de Ronde WP, van Trotsenburg MA, Gooren LJ.

Eur J Endocrinol. 2011 Apr;164(4):635-42. doi: 10.1530/EJE-10-1038. Epub 2011 Jan 25.

Source: Endocrine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, PO Box 7057, NL-1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21266549

 

 2. Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden

Dhejne C, Lichtenstein P, Boman M, Johansson ALV, Långström N, et al. (2011) Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden. PLoS ONE 6(2): e16885. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016885 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016885

 

3. Suicide and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth

Written by Eric

by Paul Cody, Ph.D.

U.N.H. Counseling Center

Created on 10 August 2007

Last Updated on 12 April 2013

http://www.healthyplace.com/gender/gay-is-ok/suicide-and-gay-lesbian-bisexual-and-transgender-youth

 

4. Rome study

Ref: J Endocrinol Invest. 2013 Jan 14. [Epub ahead of print]

HORMONE AND GENETIC STUDY IN MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL PATIENTS.

Lombardo F, Toselli L, Grassetti D, Paoli D, Masciandaro P, Valentini F, Lenzi A, Gandini L.

Source: Department of Experimental Medicine, Policlinico "Umberto I", University of Rome "La  Sapienza", Rome, Italy.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23324476

 

5. Japan study

Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2009 Oct 1;33(7):1241-4. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.07.008. Epub 2009 Jul 13.

Association study of gender identity disorder and sex hormone-related genes.

Ujike H, Otani K, Nakatsuka M, Ishii K, Sasaki A, Oishi T, Sato T, Okahisa Y, Matsumoto Y, Namba Y, Kimata Y, Kuroda S.

Source: Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ujike+H+gender+identity+disorders

 

Sex Change: a Lie and a Medical Fraud

Transgenders, you and I have been duped, shafted and led down a long pathway of lies.

The LGBT has successfully seduced lawmakers into foisting on society the single greatest medical surgical fraud in United States history. Now we have the facts. The so-called sex change surgery is not a medical necessity and never was, and the transgender advocates have known it for years.

Two studies: one from Japan the other, from Rome. Both provide research evidence that proves transgenders are not born, never were.  Trangenders are the fabrication of a delusional concept of a surgical gender, or exist as the result of a collection of one or more mental illnesses.

These two studies expose the transgender world of lies, turning it into a world of shame.

The Japan study of Oct., 2009 concludes their findings do not provide any evidence that genetic variants of sex hormone-related genes confer individual susceptibility to MTF or FTM transsexualism.

The Rome study of Jan., 2013 concludes: "Gender disorders do not seem to be associated with any molecular mutations of some of the main genes involved in sexual differentiation."

Read the studies for yourself. The links are below.

Transgenders need our profound compassion but they do not require any more protection than anyone else with a mental illness.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ujike+H+gender+identity+disorders

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23324476 

Walt Heyer
The Maverick Transgender
www.sexchangeregret.com

Transgenders, you were not born in wrong body

This January, 2013, Rome study I've been writing about (ref below) has turned the transgender world upside down.

One of the researchers who conducted a study years ago that hypothesized transgenders had a physical marker in their genes writes me and says this about the latest Rome study:

Dear Mr. Heyer,
As professionals, we have failed those with gender identity problems miserably. This study was provocative since the H-Y antigen was what was believed to determine sex. However, as you see, in this study by 10 or so authors, that was retracted.

This researcher who wrote me is a person of amazing integrity, uncommon today but wonderful to see.

It is easy for me to understand that over time studies would emerge providing such results when you consider the 30% suicide rate, de-transitions, and regret. The surgery foisted on us transgenders has failed far too many, miserably destroying thousands of individuals, families and now even children.

At least now we know why so many commit suicide and regret the surgery--because the treatment was never the help we all needed in the first place.

Source:  Department of Experimental Medicine, Lombardo F, Toselli L, Grassetti D, Paoli D, Masciandaro P, Valentini F, Lenzi A, Gandini L, Policlinico "Umberto I", Jan 2013, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23324476

Walt Heyer
www.sexchangeregret.com

Gender detransition occurs because no androgen receptor alterations and no DAX1 alterations in transsexuals

When new studies show no androgen receptor alterations and no DAX1 alterations in transsexuals are found it means that transgenders have normal chromosome patterns, nothing abnormal.

A University of Rome study finding is, "Transsexuals have normal Y chromosomes. The SRY is the main sex-determining gene. AZF a, b and C are genes for male infertility."

The study says transsexuals do not even have a smidgen of abnormality there.

The DAX1 and androgen receptor alterations were theorized (meaning never proven) as the cause of transsexualism because the DAX1 can lead to intersex and can turn a person with a normal Y chromosome into a XY woman. Yet the study shows there is no alteration in these genes in any of the transsexuals.

The DNA of the transgender is normal. They've looked at various parts of the DNA and their conclusion: "This gender disorder does not seem to be associated with any molecular mutations of some of the main genes involved in sexual differentiation."

Transsexuals have been brainwashed into thinking they are females trapped in male bodies. Perhaps they are just average guys who like women's clothes and female things. Decades of research and they just have not found anything significant, and now do not find an alteration in any of the main genes for sex determination in any transsexuals.

How many lives stolen, lost and torn to shreds by the "theorized" and untrue info?

Transsexuals Not Born in the Wrong Body, transsexuals just average guys with psych problems

A study exposes the long running lies of the transgender advocates; proves transgenders are not "born in the wrong body"

A University of Rome study proves transsexuals have normal Y chromosomes.
The SRY is the main sex-determining gene. AZF a, b and C are genes for male infertility.

Transsexuals do not even have a smidgeon of abnormality there.

The DAX1 and androgen receptor genes were theorized to cause transsexualism since they can lead to intersex and can turn a person with a normal Y chromosome into a XY woman. Yet there is no alteration in these genes in any of the transsexuals.

The DNA of the transgender is normal. They've looked at various parts of the DNA and their conclusion: "This gender disorder does not seem to be associated with any molecular mutations of some of the main genes involved in sexual differentiation.

Maybe transsexuals are not females trapped in male bodies after all. Maybe they are just average guys with psych problems. Decades of research and they just have not found anything significant, and now not to find an alteration in any of the main genes for sex determination in any transsexuals.

I guess it just ain't so.

Walt Heyer
sexchangeregret.com

Ref: Lombardo F, Toselli L, Grassetti D, Paoli D, Masciandaro P, Valentini F, Lenzi A, Gandini L., Department of Experimental Medicine, Policlinico "Umberto I", University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy.

The Boy Scouts and Homosexuality

President Barack Obama has turned the nation’s White House into the National Campaign for the Advancement of Homosexuality and he is now the leading advocate for homosexuality and the LGBT.

When the President expands with every interview his very vocal push for homosexuals to join the Boy Scouts or the military he is endorsing and even approving sexual sodomy as good and healthy sex for young boys and sodomy as good for our military men.

What Obama is also saying without using the words is: The hell with all you heterosexual people who love the values faith brings. Direct from the White House Obama is saying:  “Go ahead and hold a tight grip on that old bible and just try to hold tight to the old hunting rifle. I’m about to rip them both out of your hands.”

President Obama of the United States will make sure you heterosexual law-abiding church goers who are holding a seasoned tight grip on law and values are removed, forcefully if necessary, even Chicago mob style. The White House is intent on forcing social change so the "more important" LGBT agenda can replace that of God and your grip on the bible.

I was in the Boy Scouts 60 years ago in Los Angeles; then I was a naïve 12 year old. I did not even know what homosexuality was, but boy, I was about to learn. In my little “pup tent” on an overnight camping trip in 1952 to the foothills outside Los Angeles from a boy named Byron, or as he said, “Just call me By.” That should have given me a clue, but as I say I was naïve and only 12 at the time.

Late at night I was alone in my tent when the small tent door opened and the voice of “By” spoke softly saying, “I want to (xxxx) you.”

Now, Mister President, you are telling our nation it is a good thing our Boy Scouts can openly engage in sodomy? So that predatory behavior on our boys in the Scouts is good with you, Mr. President? 

Well, it sure was not good for me in that pup-tent that night 60 years ago on the Boy Scout camping trip. It remains psychologically troubling to me even now, and that is not healthy.  I can tell you the “By” boy went “bye-bye” from any more overnight scouting trips, thanks to my father.

This story from a former surgically-changed transgender, now the Maverick Transgender.

Walt Heyer

www.sexchangeregret.com

Clarification -- 2/13/2013 --

If your impression was that Byron was able to come all the way inside my tent and engage with me, think again.

Byron only got part way in the tent. Understand I made it clear he was not welcome and he did turn and go back to his tent and nothing ever happened. I have never engaged in any acts of homosexuality, and neither does the majority of the transgender population, even though most people assume transgenders are homosexual; they would be very wrong.

The point I wanted to show is that even when no act occurred, this young person of Boy Scout age found the moment disturbing and the sadness indelible. This is why I feel to open the Boy Scouts to homosexual leadership could damage young people in a vulnerable time of development.

I hold no hostility toward homosexuals but they do not need the Boy Scouts to support homosexuality.

That was my point, if it was lost in the original blog entry.

Walt Heyer

Transgenders suicide death rate at 30%

One out of every 3 transgenders, even after undergoing a surgical gender change, will die from suicide. Gender surgery is no help in preventing or reducing transgender suicide deaths. More than 40% of transgenders will attempt suicide and 30% will not survive the attempts and die.

From the Transgender Task Force’s own studies in the United States, to the UK’s extensive 50 years of research, along with a 30 year study of all transgenders in Sweden, we amass a wealth of evidence that changing genders all too often ends in suicide. I have reviewed a large cross section of studies and they have helped me discover that many transgenders suffer from depressive disorders, just like I did years ago. All of which predicts and explains the staggering suicide rates we see today, sadly.

As a transgender, I find this is far too important to ignore or stay silent about. I myself underwent the full range of hormones and surgeries 30 years ago. While digging into the research studies I was able see how my own life progressed from a child with gender dysphoria and depression to considering suicide. My gender dysphoria evolved from a troubled childhood.

The gender change advocates do a lot of shouting about bullying and discrimination, but there is no sound evidence they want to prevent suicides. The transgender advocates gleefully focus all their resources on new laws for the protection and expansion of sexual freedoms. They apply no matching resources toward the prevention of suicide. Nor do they lobby the media to push for the treatment of depressive disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction in an effort to prevent transgender suicides.

After reviewing 40 years of research studies from around the world, we see that far too many transgenders are suffering from a wide range of depressive psychological disorders, driving 30% of them to commit suicide.

Now it’s time to focus financial, media and advocates on prevention of suicide.

Walt Heyer
www.sexchangeregret.com