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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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Of all the hardships to befall transsexual persons, few compare to imprisonment. Male-to-female transsexuals are in a unique situation. Born with male genitalia, they have a female gender identity, and many have lived as women for years--yet they are routinely incarcerated in mens' prisons. They are at special risk because they lack a masculine gender identity; their placement within a highly aggressive segment of the population (male inmates) sets them up for victimization. Transsexual women experience the worst of the worst treatment at the hands of prison officials and prisoners. Typically, the manner in which they are treated has no correctional justification or penalogical function.
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Lynn hopes that these women's stories provide hope, encouragement and role models to others, especially to those young transsexual girls-to-be who are facing gender transition. As teenagers they (and their parents and loved ones) need to learn that a complete correction of their gender condition is now possible by applying the knowledge gained by the pathfinders who have gone before, and by exploiting the miracles of modern medicine. They ... need to learn of the profound advantages of undergoing gender correction while young, as opposed to living in angst in the wrong gender for decades and then finally transitioning, in desperation, late in life. If parents can just learn to see that their transsexual child is really a "girl with a physical problem" rather than a "boy with a mental problem", then that child's future is especially hopeful. With parental love and support, a young transsexual girl can now reach for her dreams, and go on to live a full and joyous life as a woman.
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There have not been any reports of out transsexual athletes at the Athens Olympics. Up until the Sydney Olympics in 2000, athletes were routinely checked to verify their gender. The ruling was changed because women can have non-traditional chromosomes or be born with ambiguous genitalia.
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A transsexual (sometimes transexual) person establishes a permanent identity with the opposite gender to their assigned (usually at birth) sex. Transsexual men and women make or desire to make a transition from their birth sex to that of the opposite sex, with some type of medical alteration (gender reassignment therapy) to their body. The stereotypical explanation is of a "woman trapped in a man's body" or vice versa, although many in the transsexual community reject this formulation. For the exact wording of formal medical definitions, see gender identity disorder.
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In providing hormones to transsexual inmates, prison officials may at times fall victim to the belief that the blood laboratory testing which accompanies a carefully selected regimen is too complicated for physicians. However, such testing in transsexuals is no more complicated than that associated with medications such as lithium, insulin, or antiviral administration. The prescription of hormones to transsexuals and accompanying periodic blood testing are routine medical procedures that can be provided by a general practice physician, endocrinologist, or psychiatrist. All physicians are trained in reading blood laboratory test results and are capable of determining when a MTF's hormone levels have been adjusted to therapeutic ranges found in pre-menopausal nontranssexual women (estrogen 400 - 800 pg/Ml, testosterone 25 - 95 ng/Dl); or when an FTM's hormone levels have been adjusted to ranges found in nontranssexual males (testosterone 225 - 900 ng/Dl - estrogen ,40 pg/Ml).
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