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JAZZY10 · Jan 03, 2011, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Dark_Dreams

Assuming is a dangerous thing to do. Objective research takes money and the only people who make any real money on transsexuals are surgeons and therapists.
Actually most research is done by pharmaceutical companies and as the door was shut by Harry Benjamin, in regard to treatment little objective research has been done due to the very low numbers of people affected and thus little chance of a profitable return from the research.

Let me see if I understand this. Children who have some sort of delusional relationship or event with a primary caretaker, will manifest as transsexual in the late 30's and 40's? So males who feel as though they are in the wrong body feel this way because of a skewed relationship with the mother? Or in the case of females, with their father?

(Remember we are discussing very small numbers >1% of the general population so those affect with delusional psychosis are a percentage of this small number, about 30% of the TG population.) Yes, this generally is the part of the TG population that remains very much dysfunctional after treatment due to the delusion and not the cause being treated. The UK government is very concerned about this group.

So if they express these feelings in the teen years, they are truly transsexual candidates and therefore deserve to be treated as such?

What of children who express gender identity issues almost from the time they can walk and talk? Or people who were raised in such an environment where things like this were not discussed and it was not until they were older (say in their 30's or 40's) that they felt safe enough to even express these feelings?

Well they remain in this pre-teen group as has always been the case. I see no problem in this group.

Much research needs to be done. That goes without saying. some of the research that has been done do conflict with some saying it is social, and some saying it is bilogical.

Due to India as an emerging economy and the social changes taking place there one can often find a lot of research into transsexuality and its treatment. As a patriarchal society Indian women have been subjected to male dominance and the figures indicate that roughly equal males and female try to access TG treatment (who would want to be a childless female in the Indian culture) where as in western cultures and places like Iran (where it is an escape from being shot for homosexuality) it is predominantly a male problem. This would indicate other factors present other than birth incongruities, which as with other maladies would be roughly equal in both sexes. Early-childhood experiences are indicated in most narcissistic personality problems and to rule out a mother child relationship issue would be remiss. Traditional narcissism is self-love however, in the case in question, the mother image deeply impressed in the child's earliest memory becomes the focus of the person's delusion and is often released (" the bell going off scenario") after a serious trauma - be-it emotional, physical, economic etc. I am not sure of the numbers of ex-military who report transsexual issues but from my own research it is quite a high proportion in the USA. Often this is a direct result of the trauma they experience. The manifestation of their mother comforting image overwhelms them and they subsequently seek to be her (A female just becomes more like her mother and so does not present with an issue other than depression, hence the higher incidence of depression in females) Information on the net and "support" groups only reinforce the ideation. Many of these people subsequently after transitioning suicide but, the figures no longer show up as male TS but as 'female.' They die with their dream.