QUOTE(sweet_pez @ Apr 6 2020, 07:06 PM)
This reminds me of a documentary I watched on NHK some time back. One of the girl - when she was young, had always behaved like a boy, wore like one and she never wanted to be a woman. It was consistent behaviour for years, diagnosed by doctors, psychologists etc multiple times. She confirmed that she wanted to be male and hated her female body. So when of certain age, she underwent sex change stages by stages, and even got started on hormone therapy, pills and all that.
Employment was tough after that because she would be considered as strange but she somehow managed to find job in restaurants that don't discriminate her gender. Several years later when the program followed up with her, they found that she stopped her pills and she was in depression. She struggled with her gender identity, somehow wanting to have breasts (but it was already removed from surgery when she was young) and not minding being a female or male. In the end she chose to be Asexual, someone not identified with either gender: male nor female. It's a little sad watching the documentary so really, before going ahead with such surgeries, one has to be very very sure of it.
Correct. A proper evaluation from at least 3 or more doctors is necessary to confirm a person gender dysphoria to avoid bias. A person will also need to undergo psychological evaluation to determine his/her emotion, thinking and sexual preference. Any of these fail will not qualified the person as a transgender. In addition, a monthly blood test is required to record the consistency of hormone level of the person so that it is within the preferred range. Only when all these test have passed, the person will be granted a proper document that acknowledge his/her gender dysphoria. He/she may then take these document to perform gender reassignment surgery. And only after the surgeries, he/she can apply for identity rectification.
The problem why the society is afraid of ‘transgender’ is mainly because many are not sure the genuinity of the person dysphoria. He maybe just an imposter transgender, a straight man in disguise of women to enter woman facilities. In future, if you have encounter a man entering female washroom, you may just ask politely his letter from doctor to proof his dysphoria. If he failed, you may alarm the security then.
It is very common for a man to have fetishism towards female garment, be it dress or underwear. I have multiply encounter in Carousell when men disguise as woman to ask for dresses and underwear. It is very easy to notice their fake identity because a straight man will never be able to behave or talk or respond in a normal female way. Only female can recognise that.