Everything You Ever Wanted
to Know About Sex Change*
*but were afraid to ask

Table of Contents

Introduction

Human Sexuality 101

• Sexual preference
• Gender Identity
• Mental Sex
• What is Actually Done?
• The Long and the Short of it
• Post Op Information

Hormones

• Can hormones grow breasts?
• Can hormones grow beards?
• Can hormones change the voice?
• Can hormones change one's sex?

Requirements for Surgery

Digging Deeper

Practical Issues

Voice

• How To Develop A Female Voice
• PITCH
• RESONANCE
• An Exercise
• DYNAMIC RANGE
• ENUNCIATION
• VOCABULARY
• GRAMMAR
• BODY ENGLISH
• How To Develop a Female Voice (Additional Information)
• A Trip to the Voice Doctor

Hormones

• Hormones: When Reality Takes A Break
• HORMONES
• HORMONES II
• Book Review: "Hormones - The Woman's Answer Book"

Surgeons

• Eugene A. Schrang, M.D.
• Toby A. Meltzer, M.D.
• Yvon Menard, M.D.
• Stanley H. Biber, M.D.

Post Op Living

• "I Wish I Had Waited..."
• "Help, I've Gone Stealth and Might Be Found Out!..."
• "I've Now Had Surgery, So I Can't Get AIDS..."
• "Where Can I Get Gender-Sensitive Medical Care?..."
• "A Tax Statement Showed Up With My Old Name..."

Transsexuals in the work place-a guide for employers

• To the employer:
• What IS a transsexual?
• Why aren't there female to male transsexual persons?
• Are Transsexual persons homosexual?
• Dose this effect our company's medical insurance?
• Will this affect the productivity of my employee?
• How do other companies handle this?
• What is my employee's legal status?

Legal Issues

LEGAL ASPECTS OF TRANSSEXUALISM

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

ARMED SERVICES

• Introduction
• Appointment, Enlistment, and Induction
• Discharge, Dismissal, Separation
• Boards for the Review of Discharges or Dismissals
• Boards for the Correction of Military or Naval Records
• Judicial Response

CIVIL RIGHTS

• Title VII - Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Judicial Response

CRIMINAL LAW

• Cross-dressing
• Imprisonment

FAMILY LAW

• Child Custody
• Divorce
• Marriage

HEALTH CARE

• Introduction
• Public Agency/Private Companies Response
• CHAMPUS: The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniform Services
• MEDICARE:
• PRIVATE COMPANIES:

Personal Issues

• My life story as a TV/TS
• Dream A Little Dream
• Be All You Can Be
• by Stephanie
• My Coming Out
• "A Symbiotic Friendship"
• Sarah's New Skates
• "Welcome Home"
• Six Days - A Journal of Holiday En Femme 1993
• MY COMING OUT
• REVERSE PASSING
• MY FINAL WEEK LIVING AS A MALE
• "The Neenah Connection"
• Across the Great Divide

Social Issues

Harassment

Telling Parents

Spiritualism and Transgenderism

• The Bible and Tgism
• An Editorial - The One True Path
• "BASED ON A TRUE STORY"
• "Based On A True Story" (Other Thoughts)

Interactions

• "ARE GENDER SUPPORT GROUPS SELF DEFEATING?"
• "Class Act"
• Synthesis Paper #1
• Synthesis Paper #2
• Physical Disability and the Transsexual
• "Remembering to Forget"
• "Cinderella Liberties"
• "What Comes After"

Surveys and Statistics

• Responses to the question:
• "If you could, would you change the Body or the Mind?"
• A Transgender Survey
• Statistics

Questions and Answers

• How does one know if one is transsexual?
• How long before Hormones begin to effect the body and mind?
• What about taking Altdactone to lessen body hair?
• Do home electrolysis units really work?
• What is the "Biber button", and what does it do?
• Did hormones change your sexual orientation?
• How has your S.O. dealt with your transition and surgery?
• Is being post-op all it's cracked up to be?
• How does one deal with conflicting masculine/feminine feelings?
• What about disclosure?
• What about using female sign-on names when on-line?
• How does one deal with a non-understanding wife and family?
• My husband is considering SRS. What can I expect in my relationship?

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