Max,

you are dead wrong, the facts are there, remove the blind folds and you will see. Do the research as I have, it clearly points out the scientific evidence behind transsexuality.

Ed,

what century are you living in? The weight of scientific evidence points out that transexualism has a biological etiology.

Your genitals are secondary characteristics brought upon hormonal bathing. Lack of androgen will make you a female, introduction of androgen makes you a male.

We all start off life as females until 8 weeks in fetal development when the hormonal mix takes effect.

When you see chilren born with ambigious, partial or incorrect genetalia from what there hardwired gender is, it's all due to an incomplete or faulty hormonal and receptor system.

The bottom line here is there is no hormonal mix to say you are superman or president Lincoln. There is Androgen and Estrogen, the combination of the two, the amounts provided, the timing, and other environmental factors will affect the results.

Everything is not black and white Ed. The world is not flat, although that was the prevaling thought years ago.

We have advanced, the study of neurobiology has advanced, yet still in its infancy.

1 out of 100 babies are born with some form of gender and sex identity anamoly. This is a real condition. Get the facts and stop commenting on something you know absolutely nothing about.

Freeborn,

It is easy to judge someone. Call them names. A measure of a man is something very personal. You don't know what Rene has had to go through, if he appears angry, he has his reasons.
You nor anyone has the right to judge him or mock him.

Walk a mile in a persons shoes, then and only then are your worthy of a comment. I don't know about you, but I have seen many genetically born males show plenty of testosterone. My father for one. Would beat up on my mother, yell scream, and carry on.

Like I said we each have our reasons for doing what we do, respect that, and do not judge for you are not free from sin nor judgment.

I think that one of the things that should have been talked about is what this does to the families, children,and friends of the people who decide that they need to change genders. My husband of 13 years dropped this bomb on us last May (06) we have 2 girl children age 11 and 10. She is now living her life as a woman in England, she has already had a sex change operation. She started horomones last January, changed her name last February, announced her move last April, moved last May and was operated on this January. Andrea might have known she was born in the wrong body since she was a child. I only knew of this for 10 months. There were no hints or discussions. I am left to pick up the peices of not only my life but the lives of my children. My oldest daughter doesn't understand. She wants her daddy back. When you do these kinds of shows, show the entire picture. Include families and friends of these people. Show the real picture. My husband was selfish. He should have never have gotten married or have children. Since he has known about this he should have told me before we got married and given me the choice wheather I wanted this in my life. I had to take infertility treatments before I could get pregnant. This should have been brought up before we had the girls.

Thank you for listening
Sharyn

there are many post operative transgendered people out there that are now "not living" with their descision to have gender reassignment surgery.. there have been as many suicides of post ops as there have been of pre-ops. One very quick and valid way of explaining it would be that all of your problems don't cease to exist after you get the operation.. but rather they become multiplied beyond what that person felt he or she could handle.. I myself am one of the pre-ops now forced to be non-operative due to a rogue doctor and his malpractice.. not just in g.i.d. related issues, rather just in the way he choose to treat me.. my health issues therefore are non-gender related.. rather my being forced to stop my transition is because of what he did to me... my medical problems up to the point I started being treated by him, were mostly back problems. so now I am every bit as depressed and frustrated as I was in younger years due to not being able to do anything about my gender displacement except suffer with it and feel like if I can't continue to live with myself or my life.. and yes my life envolves a wife and family of eighteen years now.. which in the beginning, my wife was very supportive.. after our youngest got old enough to learn how to pit us against each other and voice a negative against my g.i.d. to keep us at each other, mainly so that as well as the other child could easily manipulate any descision made that didn't agree with them.. yes two children. well again, I got a little carried away just as I did earlier when I sent my original post.. it's your responsibillity to dig deeper into this.. if you don't you will only be a contributer to the negative ways we are viewed, just like the janice show's and adult industry does.. so often I look like a ragged ol guy as I do a bbw blonde bombshell woman.. because of the above and well, the area of the world that I live.. again, I appeal to you to assume a personal charge in helping to educate the world and help to stop senseless prejudice and biggotry due to ignorance and fear of anything different.. which leads to nothing short of or less then senseless murders.. I.E. http://gender.org/remember/# which will give you just an idea of what we are still going through because of the way we're made to look taboo, like we're criminals, sexual preditors and pedifiles even.. I am a person who has been an assistant to psycological based help of people in many different lifestyles.. to trace my steps over the last twenty seven years would really give you an idea of just how being tg is a very deep subject with much more to understand then just sexual exploits of a few.. Ihate the word "sexual" even being introduced into discriptions of Tg related subjects.. please take the time to really study it, and not only let me help, but to help me in the process.. I don't want to loose both my legs and I don't want to die.. there are hundreds of tg guys and girls around this globe that will testify to the fact that I have been a behind the scenes port in the storm for so many of them.. now I too need such a port.. Ok again folks, I apologize for being so disraught earlier today because of my own personal problems, and for being so winded.. I type faster then most women, much less men out there.. I just get started and before I know it I've made tolstoy roll over in his grave.. a preface to a small russian novel ya know.....

Blessings,

Cassy

MARK ANGELO CUMMINGS, stop promoting bio-fiction as fact. The cause of transgender is, at this point in time, a mystery.

my name is Victoria and i was born a female but i want to be a male.and i just want to kno how did u go about starting with everything,and how does it feel

the show was outstanding and very very educational...now i would like to see it go one step farther and do a show on the intersexed(hermaphoridites) as i am one my self.

I really think this topic is not given the proper respect and attention it needs. I am a transsexual man, and very much of an advocate and educator. I think the media loves to sensationalize this, and instead of learning and doing the research, which will tell them the truth regarding our condition. 1 out of 100 babies are born with some form of gender and sex identity anomaly. The variance of this condition will increase due to our toxic environment.

Rene, you are the man. I am proud of you my friend.
The world will get to know who we really are, mark my words.

Mark Angelo Cummings
Trans man on a mission.

Being angry, loud, and macho doesn't make you a man. Taking potshots at people you don't know and have never met doesn't make you a man.

It makes you a jerk.

Sex change-so if I think i'm a dog or President Lincoln or Superman or I don't like my legs so long,I should beable to cut them off without someone thinking this might be something that should be stop.By not showing extreme criticism for this type of thinking makes me worry about your thoughts.

Good Morning!
This morning I watched Dr. Keith's show "Life After A Sex Change Operation". WOW! I am very impressed! Thank you for presenting this show and the guests in such a sensitive, intelligent, compassionate and informative way. I was riveted to this show. The guests were very candid and revealing of themselves, sharing their innermost thoughts, feelings, struggles, and essences of themselves and their lives. Thank you all so much for contributing to the conversation of understanding the diversity, wonder, and complexity of humankind.
With greater understanding hopefully comes greater openness and acceptance.

I just wanted to say that Rene is SEXY, I wouldn't really care what he was born because he deffinetly looks awesone as a man.