From: annie (dlvdisc@geekbabe.com)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 13:44:18 CDT
> Documentaries are made to sell documentaries. They will always tell the
> most controversial stories they can find. Makes them interesting to
> watch, but sometimes misleading.
Of all the documentaries I've seen, I can remember only one that comes
close to being accurate. Most all of them are slanted toward an end that
the producers want.
(I won't even go into that drek that is presented on Springer and the
like.)
The producers just don't "get it", so a very inaccurate story is
presented.
> Anyone who is having thoughts about doing this should see a good
> therapist... not one whose specialty is steering people through
> transformation. Better yet, make some friends outside of "the
> community" and find something else to get excited about.
I've seen many in our community get so set on transitioning that they
fail to see the real world out there. They get so wrapped up in the
community that they have few friends outside of it. They get this
impression that if only they would go thru transition and SRS, all
of their problems will disappear.
This is probably not going to be a popular statement here, but one
role of a therapist is to, in effect, screen out those for whom
transition and surgery are not indicated.
But the way it seems to work is that word gets out as to which
therapists will tell people what they want to hear, and are liberal
about those "letters", which are highly coveted, just as word gets out
as to which physicians are liberal about writing prescriptions for
"mones" and such.
Oh well, so it goes. (and so do I ...)
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