[robin_beales]

Just saw this today. Really sad.

Pensioner, 75, wants to be a man again

I suspect that moderate suppression of androgen in the womb produces these halfway cases (like me) who would like to be female, but remain heterosexual, and only need hormone treatment to remove depression.

B.

Thanks SO much for posting this. As has already been said, it is a shame people get pushed into the BINARY world of "....boy? or girl?, choose!"...
I am quite sure we ALL go thru the binary trap of questioning (I know I did) and it takes a long time, if ever, to finally "get it" that maybe, just maybe, we do not have to choose.
Someday society will allow it --- I hope.
I think one of the singularly MOST influential persons in this regard has emerged in the past year or so --- the Serbian-born Australian-raised model Andrej Pejic. Andrej seems so comfortable being WHO he is and making no excuses for it. My hope is so many of the next generation of gender-challenged boys (and girls) can see that there are more options than just boy or girl. In my case, my answer to the question "Are you a boy or a girl?" has now been "Yes, I am." for 15 years now --- but it took a long time to come to grips with that.
Just because we were born with male genitals does not make us men or masculine, not at all.

Thanks so much for sharing the learning, and my heart goes out to Gary that he finds peace soon as he deals with this heartbreaking situation.