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I don’t know why I have not sent this to you earlier, but I wanted to give you a link to a blog I did a while back regarding my orchiectomy. I always knew that full SRS was not for me, but I did know I wanted to change “my downstairs” for a couple reasons. With that said, I really had a tough time getting some of my questions answered prior to my orchi. To fill in some of the blanks, I did this blog http://myorchiectomy.blogspot.com/ . I have forgotten the password and email I registered it to, so unfortunately I have been unable to go in and put up an updated photo of myself (after laser hair in that region), but I guess it will have to do. I wanted to pass it to you so that others might be informed and be able to learn from my experience. Hope it helps.
Doctor: Dr. Harold Reed
Date: April 2010
Cost: $4000, but I received $500 back after donation of my testicles to a laboratory that he put me in contact with.
Long-term outcome: I no longer have to take anti-androgens, and have actually stopped all hormones because of my prior use and the now lack of testicular testosterone production.
General impressions: I feel much more confident with myself, was able, per documentation provided to me by Dr. Reed, to chance my gender on all governmental documents and records. My sex drive has changed a bit, to be something more similar to that of a woman. Though I am told not everyone is as fortunate as me, I am fully functional still.
The following is my story of undergoing an orchiectomy with Dr. Fara Movagharnia in Atlanta,GA during Nov of 2010. There are plenty of other resources on line that talk about the pros and cons of orchiectomy. I will not duplicate those terrific efforts. This site is intended to recount my personal experience having an orchiectomy. I will keep this page updated as my healing process continues.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the infamous Toronto facility known for regressive and humiliating treatment of transgender clients, is about to lose the monopoly that allowed them to become the most notorious “gender clinic” in the world. A Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee is being formed to address this problem that emerged in Ontario over 40 years ago and has been a problem ever since.
Loralee Gillis, Coordinator of Research and Policy at Rainbow Health Ontario, has just made the following announcement:
Request for applications for membership on Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee
We are seeking trans people from across Ontario to be members of a Provincial Trans Health Project Advisory Committee.
Sherbourne Health Centre, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Trans Health Lobby Group of the Rainbow Health Network, the Trans PULSE research study and a number of trans community activists have been working with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care over the last two years to develop a plan to improve trans health services in the province of Ontario for trans people. Through this process the Ministry of health has agreed to:
Establish 3 additional assessor sites for trans people needing approval of OHIP funded SRS
Provide training for health care providers across the province in trans health care
Conduct an evaluation of aforementioned initiatives
Establish an advisory committee to oversee the development and implementation of these three projects.
This call for applications is to find four members of the trans community from diverse communities across the province to be members of the advisory committee for these projects. We are searching for people with particular skills to work with us to co-create improved services for trans people across the province.
We welcome applications from trans people with diverse backgrounds and experience to be part of this ground breaking imitative. We would like to especially encourage applications from:
people of colour & people from racialized communities;
immigrants and refugees;
Aboriginal and Two Spirit people;
people whose first language is not English
people living with (dis)abilities
people living outside of the GTA – particularly people from rural and northern areas of the province;
Email or mail your completed application form, including references and a brief résumé to us by 5pm, August 18th.
Email: jkeystone@RainbowHealthOntario.ca
Mail: c/o Jen Keystone
Rainbow Health Ontario
Sherbourne Health Centre
333 Sherbourne Street
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2S5
We thank all applicants for their interest, but only short-listed candidates will be contacted for a telephone interview. Applicants, please be sure to include a telephone number that we can use to contact you.
Any Canadian citizens seeking trans health services are urged to avoid CAMH at all costs. Please contact one of several alternatives, including the Sherbourne Health Centre listed above.
You have an informative area about silicone injections on your site, listing the cons on why not to get pumped. Well many girls were stupid and went ahead and did it anyway. If I could suggest, adding more information for girls who got pumped and are dealing with issues due to silicone injections.
Recently I have been looking for a doctor to remove the silicone I stupidly had pumped in my ass and hips. I went to many doctors and they all said they couldn’t help me. I even had one doctor laugh and rudely say “why would you do something so dumb, I don’t know what to tell you”; I left the office in tears.
Meanwhile my butt was hard, lumpy, with red blotches and was hot when you touched it. I had a fever, and was sweating with the chills; it felt like I had the flu. I was physically sick and in major pain, but I couldn’t find someone to help me. It was so overwhelming I honestly wanted to die.
Long story short….I eventually found a doctor with experience to treat me. I had a major infection in the area where the silicone was. I treated the infection and was told if I let it go much longer the infection would have spread and made me very sick. I still get reoccurring swelling. I take a steroid to reduce the swelling when it occurs but it always comes back a few months later. I am eventually going to have it removed and don’t care about scarring, my life and health are more important.
In doing my research to find a doctor for myself I found countless other girls who didn’t know where to turn. There are so many girls out there with all kinds of problems from silicone injections.
I am emailing you to suggest that you have a link with doctors who will treat girls with issues due to silicone injections. There is no such list on the internet. I could help you build a list of doctors. I could also help build a list of pumpers who have had bad results. I went to one of the best around, Joann Layne; she was the supplier of silicone to the late Kelly Harper.
Certain steroids will work to reduce the swelling. I went to Dr. Norman Schulman in NYC here is a link to his website http://www.normanschulmanmd.com/. He has removed silicone from many different people; he says my problems are minimal compared to what he has seen. He doesn’t want to remove mine; he feels that in my case it can be treated with steroids. If you need any other info or help building a section on medical professionals that treat silicone complications just let me know. There is also another doctor I know of in Maryland; Dr. Samir Shureih here is a link to his website http://www.cosmeticsurgeryforme.com/
