Standards of Care 

Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association. Standards of Care (SOC) 6th version.
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So You Want to be a T-Girl  

http://www.missfiorella.com/t-girl.htm

This will be long, and I promise it will not be too pretty, but you asked for it and here you are... so bear with me.

There is a lot if information on the net, on the streets, and in the media. I am here to tell you that it is mostly garbage... if something is made for public consumption, it is slanted to satisfy a particular motive... most of it cannot be trusted. So why can you trust me? Two reasons: one, I have no ulterior motive. I am asked constantly to help girls out and I cannot help them all. It takes too much time and energy, and no one really wants to hear the truth anyway. All the girls want to hear is that the life of a transsexual is all roses and laughter, silk and tight corsets, having fun playing girl, and wearing sexy lingerie. Well, bullshit. Not even close! And second, I have been there. And so have my friends, lovers, acquaintances, and the hundreds of people I meet on a daily basis. I LIVE the life, and so do my friends... we know the truth, we live it, our lives are not special, not charmed, and certainly not easy. Read on. After all, you asked for it.
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Are Transsexuals Crazy? 

http://www.drbanks.com/serious/crazy.html
Well, I just finished a dissertation on the subject, and I've got a few numbers to back me up. I was fortunate enough to be given the (anonymous) protocols from standardized testing on people who've visited the Gender Identity Clinic of New England in the last 28 years. Although none of this data told me who the people were, the data did represent a few hundred people who were seeking treatment for "Gender Identity Disorder," with some goal of starting therapy, hormonal treatment, or obtaining Sex Reassignment Surgery.
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Lynn Conway: Transsexual Women's Successes  

Approximately 30,000 to 40,000 postoperative transsexual women live in the United States, and many thousands more are now in the process of gender transition here. These numbers are much larger than commonly assumed by the public because a veil of invisibility hides the true nature and extent of the transsexual condition. Especially hidden are large numbers of highly successful women who have fully transitioned. The reason is that most successful women live in "stealth mode" or are "woodworked". They leave their pasts behind and hide in plain sight in order to avoid social stigmatization and get on with their new lives. Their personal successes insure that they assimilate and blend right into society.
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