Transsexualism, Transsexual Case Studies and Effective Treatment Alternatives to Gender Reassignment Surgery

Community Reaction to the book, (Un)acceptable Losses—The Men and Women Who Transgress Gender Norms

Karlene Nation, Director of Diversity Programing, CTV News

[The book, (Un)acceptable Losses] could blow the doors off the current understanding of transsexualism.

Jamison Green

"The ideas that some people suffer tremendous losses as a result of going through a transsexual process, and that some people do lie about their medical history in order to get treatment, are ones that certainly do need to be discussed. [...] Efforts to build community are not always smooth or easy, but giving up on them would be an unacceptable loss for all of us."
—Jamison Green

Lynn Conway

"I believe that it is important for the community to be aware of cases like [Jennifer Pallister's], and to ponder the reasons for transition failure in those individual cases. As in any area of human endeavor, we learn from mistakes as well as from successes."
—Lynn Conway

Nancy Nangeroni & Gordene McKenzie

[the author] is apparently someone, who believes very much in autogynephilia—the myth there being only two motivations for transsexualism, which is either you are a gay man in denial or you are only attracted to yourself and you can only get off on yourself and there is no possibility that if you are an MTF trans* person that you are ever attracted to women, [these people] don't exist. It is very much the Michael Bailey spin on things. It is a heterosexist, misogynistic piece of garbáge. [...] It is ignorant cause it ignores a huge body of work out there to the contrary. It is racist, too. We understand that [the author] is harming people in Canada. [the author] is opposing SRS in Canada for those, who can't afford it. [The auhtor] published the case studies of three transsexuals in Toronto that was pejorative in nature, that used their full names without their permission. So this is a libelous [...] [he] said these people were mentally ill on [his] website without justificaiton. I don't know if [he] is dealing with a full deck or what, but [he] has slandered trans* people. [He] is hurting trans* people " [1]
—Nancy Nangeroni & Gordene McKenzie.