Hi Maggsdee

yes with transsexuals they hate been called transgender hehehe.

i hope we do here from other transsexuals.

🙄 😀

Hi Anthony

Yes I did try to explain stealth in my words but I do have trouble some times explaining some things so I went looking for a better expiation and wikipadia had a very good one.

The term trannie most transsexuals don’t like the word but if some one calls me it ,it dose not bother me .

It’s the word freak that I don’t like been called unless like your self its in fun and by a friend.

I also hate it when mostly guys will some times call you him just to get a rise out of you.

I just pretend I did not here it.

at work i have told the guys they can call me a bitch if they like and that works very well. you have to try to make the guys feel at eas and that i am not going to take them to court for saying the wrong thing. you have to be fexable there . it works well.

In the hospitals in perth the doctors and staff keep calling you him or he or MR and all that.

It has happen to many transsexuals pre or post op.

One transsexual that was in the syke ward of a hospital was made to shower with the guys and boy did she get hell.

The medical staff just don’t care about us .

All the skye ward wanted to do was get her out of there hospital after one day with no new drugs ,no syke had talked to her nothing .

She also had no wear to live but they did not care.

In WA we have a group government funded that you go to if you have a complaint about hospitals or there treatment.

This complaints group is run buy a lesbian who I know and when we contacted her she went straight to that hospital and had the staff not knowing what had hit them.,

There was a sudden change in there attitude and they could not do enough for her .

With in a few months others had been in the same hospital and things had gorn bad again.

This happens in all perth hospitals.

Mental illness is very big in the transsexual communities I would say most would be on some sort of antidepressants’. I would not be surprised if it was in the 80% range.

Suicide states are kept buy a Australian suicide group that the Australian government use for stats.

They do not keep any stats on transsexuals.

Now I joined this group a few yrs ago but they were not interested in even knowing we existed. I wrote a few emails but would never get a reply.

I payed around $60 to be a member.

Its things like this that get me angry.

There was a shops in perth I have only herd of that would refuse you entry it was a second hand clothes shop .

The casino in perth 2 twice refused to let me in many years ago. They would make up some excuse for not letting you in.

I remember telling them the 3rd time I was a friend of Louise Pratt who was then in the state upper house and I showed them her card . I never had a problem after that . Louise is now in federal parliament upper house I believe. she is openly lesbian and has done so much for the trans community in WA.

Here birthday party’s were the best I had ever been to.

Louise has been pushing the state attorney general to change the laws in WA and it looks like it may happen soon.

WA is the only state that has no laws for pre op transsexuals or transgender people.

you can not get any emergency accomidation for transsexuals in refugese in WA. so the street is it.

This was suppose to be a short reply hehehehe.

Have a great day

leece

So excuse my blondness wink but what is the difference between transexual and transgender??? is transexual once the operation has been done? I noticed you made a reference to it in your last post.

sorry mags i relised in did not read your e mail right.

transsexual is a person that is born in the wrong body and needs to change there body to to match there mind.

after surgey we can still be called transsexual but realy we are then leagaly female in the eyes of the law.

some will get up set been called transsexual after surgery some off us dont care.i often call my self either female or transsexual female.

leece

Thanks for the websites. I did find the tsroadmap site already and it was quite good for showing the path of transmission. For my assignment though i am after services in sydney that the transsexual population may need to access such as counselling, refuge etc. With regards to hormone therapy is that done through a local GP or a sepcialist? I noticed that the place where you had your surgery done was in Thailand. Is that the general routine for people to have the operation or does the operations mostly get done in Australia? Another question about your other post about the person who was forced to shower with males, if she were to shower in the smae room as females i am wondering how this would affect the other females who showered there. They would be made to feel as uncomfortable as she did being made to shower with men. How would you suggest they alleviate this embarassment as it seems either room she showered in was going to cause discomfort for someone. As i am a nurse it would be very useful for me to hear your ideas on this matter.