I heard of a case awhile back where a transgendered, post operative was called into a committee meeting after which she was so despondent she took her own life. Of course no one "knows" what happened, but the story goes they told her that she was a male and god would always consider him a male and he had transgressed and sinned by the surgury.
I know transgendered individuals, both of them are females who were born into male bodies. This was something I had a hard time understanding, so I sought out these individuals to get to know them better and better understand their life and the change. In both cases they told me that they had always from the time they were small children, felt like they were put into the wrong clothes, played with the wrong toys, just everything male that they were directed to, assigned to, or given was for someone else. They always connected with women, they thought like their women friends, etc. When and after they had the surgury, it felt like they were where they were supposed to be. My understanding is, many of these were born with an xxy gene or something. I have also known one individual that was a hermaphrodite and actually was born with both male and female organs.
In the cases of these friends of mine, they have always felt like women. So they don't like other women in the same way as men do. I don't know how to explain it better than that. They identify as lesbians, and so thats how I respectfully address them.
I have recently been introduced to a woman who is engaged to a F to M who is post operative. Her fiance is also a police officer. They are going through hell right now in that testosterone environment. I know what I'm talking about here because I was married to one for 15 years. You would never know by looking at her fiance that he was ever a woman. Doesn't look like one doesn't act like one, never did.
Well I see that I digress. Originally my point was, my experience based on this suicide story is that they have not changed their official policy.
Gretchen
