New: ‘Women Born Transsexual’ blog |
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Be sure to check out this new voice from Suzan:
Women Born Transsexual or WBT is for people who recognize transsexualism, sometimes called HBS or Harry Benjamin Syndrome as an innate condition rather than a gender identity disorder.
We view transsexualism as a medical condition we were treated for rather than as an identity. We tend to not consider ourselves transgender although many of us are quite willing to work with transgender people in achieving common goals. We are not willing to allow our unique history and life experiences to be erased or swallowed up by the transgender paradigm.
Many but not all of us do not see ourselves as being part of transgender. This is neither elitist nor hostile and a great deal of misunderstanding could be alleviated by simply saying transsexual and transgender when describing people who are now erased when transgender is used as a universal and collective descriptive noun.