8) When did you decide to remove the phallus? (penis,
but I have to keep this clean)
Cute phraseology….. Again, after I had the breast implants I said I was not going to have any more surgery…… Yet as the years had gone forward I gradually developed an increasing dislike for my phallus (penis), and the associated anatomy. I began checking into the possibility of surgical castration to help lower the male sex hormones and make the female hormones I was taking to have more effect. As I contacted different doctors within a few hundred mile radius of here, I ran into some interesting facts, the most primary one being that it was not something most wanted to do….for whatever reason. And even when I found a physician, it seemed that the local hospital would insist on what seemed to be unnecessary costs and conditions. For example, the local hospital itself wanted to charge almost as much to have it done in their facility as the complete sex change surgery (SRS) would cost. I passed on that. One physician that I contacted via email, however, explained to me why he would not do that surgery, and the reason was that the skin that would be removed during a surgical castration was needed for any possible future sex reassignment surgery. That made an impression, and I sat down and looked at my financial picture, discovered I had enough saved in my mutual funds for the complete basic surgery, and decided that it was ‘now or never’. The mental anguish I was feeling was getting to be more and more difficult to deal with, and I simply knew I had to do something. Did I know that the SRS was the right thing? No! I certainly felt it was, but I also realized that until you actually do it, and reach the point of no return, one can never truly know whether you will like the new role or not. I then contacted that physician and scheduled the surgery. In my case, the time between my decision to go ahead with the surgery and actually getting it done, was quite short. Since there are not many surgeons who actually do the SRS, they are relatively busy, and the wait can often be close to a year here in the USA. I think part of this may be self imposed, and I have little doubt that they just want the person to be sure they feel the right decision has been made. In my case, this physician was going to retire soon, and wasn’t really taking my new patients, but I was accepted. And once in the operating room, time goes quite fast, and in a little over two and one-quarter hours I had new genitalia.
Cute phraseology….. Again, after I had the breast implants I said I was not going to have any more surgery…… Yet as the years had gone forward I gradually developed an increasing dislike for my phallus (penis), and the associated anatomy. I began checking into the possibility of surgical castration to help lower the male sex hormones and make the female hormones I was taking to have more effect. As I contacted different doctors within a few hundred mile radius of here, I ran into some interesting facts, the most primary one being that it was not something most wanted to do….for whatever reason. And even when I found a physician, it seemed that the local hospital would insist on what seemed to be unnecessary costs and conditions. For example, the local hospital itself wanted to charge almost as much to have it done in their facility as the complete sex change surgery (SRS) would cost. I passed on that. One physician that I contacted via email, however, explained to me why he would not do that surgery, and the reason was that the skin that would be removed during a surgical castration was needed for any possible future sex reassignment surgery. That made an impression, and I sat down and looked at my financial picture, discovered I had enough saved in my mutual funds for the complete basic surgery, and decided that it was ‘now or never’. The mental anguish I was feeling was getting to be more and more difficult to deal with, and I simply knew I had to do something. Did I know that the SRS was the right thing? No! I certainly felt it was, but I also realized that until you actually do it, and reach the point of no return, one can never truly know whether you will like the new role or not. I then contacted that physician and scheduled the surgery. In my case, the time between my decision to go ahead with the surgery and actually getting it done, was quite short. Since there are not many surgeons who actually do the SRS, they are relatively busy, and the wait can often be close to a year here in the USA. I think part of this may be self imposed, and I have little doubt that they just want the person to be sure they feel the right decision has been made. In my case, this physician was going to retire soon, and wasn’t really taking my new patients, but I was accepted. And once in the operating room, time goes quite fast, and in a little over two and one-quarter hours I had new genitalia.
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