Unexpected Event: Jerri Was A Man!

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Tukuul

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 10:04 am Click here to edit this post

According to the California Institute of Sex Change Surgery and Sexual Orientation Deprogramming, Jerri was once known as Jerry (a high strung corporate power negotiator who always got his way). In order to throw his accumulated enemies off track, Jerry decided to enter the "sex change institute" and become Jerri, now a high strung actress wannabe that even fewer people like. Can she keep a grip on her chocolate cravings or will she eventually blow?! Only time will tell.

Special thanks to certain anonymous individuals for the inside info.

Max

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 10:11 am Click here to edit this post

I know you mean this to be funny. However, if you've ever known anyone who has struggled with gender identity issues, you might have a different view. It's really not a matter to be taken lightly. I admit a certain sensitivity to the issue since I have a good friend who has struggled with these issues, but I don't find this funny.

Just my opinion.

Tukuul

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 10:14 am Click here to edit this post

Max, you never find anything funny. All you do is complain from what I see in most of your posts.

Lighten up and live a little!

Max

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 11:40 am Click here to edit this post

I'm entitled to an opinion, just as you are. I didn't bash you, I simply gave my opinion. As far as I'm aware, that's what "discussion" is all about.

Digilady

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 01:03 pm Click here to edit this post

Poor Tuk, hit a sore spot.

Max, if you don't mind going there, is your friend having trouble getting the change? Or in the decision part of the thing?

I too have a friend considering. Thing is, insurance certainly doesn't cover the costs and man are they HIGH.

Seems ro me I also saw a segment on 60 Minutes about this.

Max

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 02:07 pm Click here to edit this post

Digi,
My friend had the surgery at around age 41. She (I didn't know her when she was a he) had felt out of place, gender-wise, her whole life. Sometimes, it was so bad that seeing herself naked made her physically ill. It's very hard to imagine that, but it's the way she felt.

You're right about the insurance issue--there isn't a company in the land who will cover this kind of surgery. In my friend's case, an inheritance funded part of the initial surgery. Credit cards funded a lot of stuff, too, particularly the required ongoing electrolosis. She lived in virtual poverty for a long time trying to keep everything paid.

Now, she makes a lot of money as a computer programmer and is debt-free, so, in that respect, it's a very happy ending.

She will always struggle with psychological issues, though, not all of which are related to the gender change. She had a very rough childhood and, like her mother, deals with manic-depressive disorder.

I can honestly say that I've had to confront a lot of prejudicial thinking in my own head around these issues. It's very strange how my mind wants to identify gender even when it's really immaterial to the conversation. There are so many issues in this life that boggle my mind! :)

Riviere

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 02:34 pm Click here to edit this post

As usual I do have an unusual interest & sympathy for this topic, but since I generally keep my strange and wondrous life to myself there's not a thing I can add that Max hasn't touched on. :) I thought you guys locked that Tuukuul (tooocoool) kid up til he learned some manners, lol, I must be dreaming as usual..

Tukuul

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 05:00 pm Click here to edit this post

Now, I really have to laugh.

In jest, I put a twist on something and randomly choose a topic which happens to be the topic that attracts a lot of negative side comments instead of the laughs that it generated in the Game II Tabloids. Now I think I understand why some of these people didn't participate in Game II. You actually have to have some humor in your lives.

My condolences on all of your strange gender situations. I'm sure they are very unsettling. Consider this another "unexpected event": an informative sex change thread.

As far as me being locked up, Riviere, be glad I'm not. This place would become way too serious and "anal". Have a great day.

Tukuul

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 05:09 pm Click here to edit this post

Out of respect for the "offended", I will back off on this sensitive topic that I randomly pulled out of thin air in order to make fun of Jerri.

Juju2bigdog

Friday, March 02, 2001 - 05:26 pm Click here to edit this post

We had a transgender janitor (male to female) at work. Even in San Francisco, she had a very difficult time with the way people treated her. We did not see her for a while, and one day I inquired and found out she died in a short time period. Lung cancer, nothing to do with the operation, unless you count the stress.

Thanks for the topic, Kuul.

Guruchaz

Wednesday, March 14, 2001 - 06:23 pm Click here to edit this post

Ouch.

This topic pushes the bounds of being too judgemental as I've learned today. I was at a computer store yesterday and I swear I saw "Pat". I was amazed, but then realized how judgemental I was being especially since I've never met or talked to the person. I have to catch myself sometimes.

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I think a lot of people really wanted to see Jerri go tonight but backed off their votes for whatever reason.