Transsexualism, Transsexual Case Studies and Effective Treatment Alternatives to Gender Reassignment Surgery
Acceptable Losses—Preface
In his book, (Un)acceptable Losses: Vol. 1—the Men and Women Who Transgress Gender Norms, G. Eugene Pichler reports on the lives of a number of post-operative, male to female transsexuals, who failed to benefit from a gender reassignment surgical procedure and watched their respective lives get measurably worse and not better. Pichler also touches on the current psychiatric understanding of transsexual behavior, the underlying causes and the more recent research and theories that bring into question the current understanding. Pichler also discusses transsexualism as an emerging political movement and the GLBT organizations that routinely intimidate and harass medical practitioners, politicians and journalists, when these parties operate outside a prescribed belief system.
Pichler also touches on feminism and the understanding of transsexualism through the feminist perspective. Pichler also touches on a number of other sexual phenomena, including cross-dressing, she-males, and the sexual interest towards transvestites, transsexuals and she-males, and how the lines between the various phenomena are blurred.
Pichler also reports on effective treatments for transsexualism that do not involve invasive surgery. To base his arguments Pichler compares transsexualism—which is a behavioral addiction kicked off from a sexual response to the consideration of a change in sex—with epilepsy and shows how the drugs and medications that treat epileptic seizures and behavioral additions have good results in treating transsexualism. In fact a Swedish study found that the phenomenon is virtually non-existent in persons who are successfully treated for epilepsy. Pichler further shows that if the medical community were to treat transsexualism in the context of a behavioral addiction in lieu of a gender identity disorder, that transsexualism as it is known today would be virtually eradicated within one generation.
As he introduces each subject Pichler brings the reader into a day-in-the-life of the individual—a bad day—but in the vast majority of cases of five-year post-operative transsexuals sadly a typical day. In the case of male to female transsexual, Jennifer Pallister a.k.a. Randy Pallister, Pichler brings the reader to Pallister's final art showing at the OHHO Gallery, prior to him reportedly committing suicide. In the case of she-male Escort/Actor Rodney Arsenault, a.k.a., Nina Arsenault, a.k.a., Amber, who reportedly has an IQ of over 145, Pichler brings the reader along to watch Rodney as he is called up to play the humiliating principal role of a transsexual bimbo waitress on the set of CTV Comedy's show, PUNCHED UP. In the case of DRAG politician, Enza "Supermodel" Anderson, Pichler brings the reader inside Anderson's janitorial job at Woody's, cleaning up after Kyle Rae's triumphant celebration over the "Supermodel" in municipal elections.
The online bonus material of the book includes a certified transcript of the interview with Jennifer Pallister a.k.a. Randy Pallister -a 39-year-old, male to female, post-operative transsexual-who, prior to a gender transition, worked as a senior software developer at Symantec Delrina, but afterwards watched his life spiral out-of-control. At some point after undergoing a gender reassignment surgical procedure, Pallister took refuge at a women's homeless shelter in Toronto, Ontario. Finally on August 29, 2007 Pallister reportedly committed suicide. In fact Pallister, who the CAMH reportedly rejected as a candidate for a publicly funded, gender reassignment surgical procedure due to mental health issues, privately obtained a gender reassignment surgical procedure from surgeon, Eugene Strang, M.D. in Neeham, Wisconsin.
G. Eugene Pichler, the author, is a recognized expert on transsexualism by CTV News, Canada AM and CTV News The National. The book is not written exclusively for a transsexual audience, but rather anyone with an interest in the transsexual phenomenon.
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