Yup it does, it causes them to commit suicide. Sad isn't it Penny.
I walked away from this discussion some time ago because some get it some don't. People think everything is back and white in this earth and yet all throughout nature variations happen. Because we are human being, apparently we are immune to the same mutations that are seen in nature. We see dozens of issues with Gender and sexuality beyond just this one, including women who have XY men who have xx and some even have variations like XXY
It's easy to say this is wrong or that's wrong and pass judgment on someone else's life. It's easier than looking within ourselves and fixing our own problems. I lived this and I still am, I've had gender dysphoria since my earliest memories. It's done so much emotional damage trying to live the way society built the box I'm supposed to fit into. To the point that if I had to live the way a lot of you have deemed me to then I might as well just have killed myself like my original intent. But that wasn't the right answer for me.
I took the hard route, I chose life but I chose to get help for this, In getting help the path was set in front of me by my Dr's and that is what I have to abide by for treatment to live. That doesn't mean living in one gender part time to appease some because that violates the standards of care put forth by the medical community.
I've heard we need therapy not surgery. I've had 3 years of therapy and the only known cure is transition. Dr's are the gatekeepers of transition and to get there means living full time and doing hormone therapy.
It does damage to the mind to have such a conflict of opinion. Dr's tell us that transition is the only known sure, society tells us to stay the sex we were born as. So do I take medical advice from my neighbor or my Dr?
The truth in this show is simple. Dr Phil dropped the ball and most of all Kayla dropped the ball.
Dr Phil should have explained the hows, whys and what's of this condition and why it is medically necessary and YES it is NECESSARY!
Kayla has dropped the ball in so many ways. Not financially supporting her girls, Not getting them invovled with therapy so they understood what was going on and help them deal. Working to stay in their life.
We get the word tselfish thrown at us all to often in transition. It is selfish to expect someone to live miserable because they don't undertstand their feelings and emotions about who they are. Transisition is not selfish it is simply survival... .
Selfish is not supporting your children and getting your nails done. Selfish is not getting your children help because yours is more important to you. Please don't lump all TG people into one big ball because of a few bad ones...
Lastly I've read that I'm not supposed to have had children because of my Gender Dysporia. How sad people must be if they assume all families end up in tattered ruins because of this. I have a beautiful wife who has taken the time to talk to my Dr's and learn about why I need this and she stands beside me, she is my best friend and my soulmate. I have a 23 yr old daughter that not only supports me, she likes me much better the way I am now. She also likes the fact that her dad is still alive instead of dead. Lastly I have a beautiful granddaughter I am watching grow, that would have never happened if I followed the jugemental people . I love everyone in my family dearly and I know I'm loved. I would have nevber found that out if I lived the narrow path that some people expect .....
(Original Air Date: 04/29/08) Christina, 21, and her younger sister, Carlie, 13, say they had a close relationship with their father, Michael, until two years ago when he decided to transition to a female. Michael was a police officer, soldier and loving parent who lived his life as a male for 40 years. Now, he wants his daughters to call him Mom, because he says Dad is gone, but they refuse. Michael, who prefers to be called Kayla, says she wants to explain to her daughters why she's living as a woman, but they've never given her the chance. The last time Christina saw her father was two years ago when he showed up at her work in lace and blue jeans to break the news that he's transgendered. When she sees Kayla onstage, does she greet her with open arms? Next, Carlie joins her sister and father. She says she wants her old dad back, but will she feel the same after seeing Kayla? Can the father-daughter bond be turned into a mother-daughter one? Be prepared for an emotional journey as two daughters struggle to understand how someone they say loved so much could hurt them so badly. Talk about the show here.
