Re: A death at work

On 12 Jan 2006 22:22:19 +0000, Gareth McCaughan put finger to keyboard
and typed:

>"jewels" wrote:
>
>[Phil Saunders:]
>>> Well one might think so. Recently there has been a case of one who wants
>>> to be changed back. I dont know how common this is though.
>>
>> It seems to happen often enough for it to be mentioned in the deliberations
>> when they were putting together the gender bill thingy prior to it going to
>> the House of Lords. I remember reading about it. It's more common than
>> people realise - I guess a lot of transexuals only realise that having their
>> gender changed physcially does not resolve their problems and many of them
>> then feel they want to go back to what they were originally.
>
>(On what grounds do you say "more common than people realise"
>and "a lot" and "many of them"? Do you have any evidence for
>those claims?)
>
>It happens. It's rare. I think it's considerably less common than,
>say, suicide among transsexuals who haven't had sex reassignment,
>which seems to me a rather more drastic sort of failure.

Do you have figures for that? I did some googling for it yesterday,
and couldn't find anything which pointed to a reliable survey. I did,
however, find a document prepared for the NHS in the south-west of
England which quoted a lot of anecdotal evidence from various small,
non-controlled surveys, and the figures from them showed a post-op
suicide rate of up to 20% as well as a "regret" rate of up to 20%.
And, of those who initially approach the NHS for gender-reassignment
surgery, fewer than half actually proceed with the operation. The
report concludes that the benefits of surgery, though undoubtedly real
for some people have probably been overstated due to lack of rigorous
follow-up - a lot of post-op transsexuals are "lost" to the surveys
because they simply stop communicating with the survey team.

Mark
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