As opposed to any other sort of transsexual.

Christ (who, incidentally, I don’t believe was the son of god) knows why I decided to post these, but I thought they’d be interesting facts.

I realised today I was grateful to have my career, not just because it involves a lot of interesting thinking and also helping people, though mainly thinking to be honest. But also because it makes being trans sooo much easier.

1. If there’s a war you can sign up and fight and be a man without a lack of upper body strength preventing you. Because you don’t actually have to be a bio man to be a military field doctor
2. Good history James Barry for instance and women have been disgising themselves as men to become Doctors for years.
3. Control – if you can self prescribe you feel less indebted to your GP. Until I could do this I was scared everyone doctor was going to stop my T prescription. Once I can self prescribe I can easily get a bit more T if I want some. Also understanding the hormones means I don’t need an endocrinologist.
4. Self injecting T. I’ve been able to convince every doctor I’ve registered with that I can self inject. The last one didn’t seem that happy with it for medico-legal reasons however I just said ‘Don’t be ridiculous I’m a Doctor I’ve got my own indeminty insurance anyway!’ and he let me.
5. Doctors are nicer to Transsexual Doctors, than other transsexuals. I think that this is because a lot of people find relating to trans-people difficult because they don’t know where to place us. If you’re a doctor then they can see you as a Doctor and not a trans person.
6. Unisex title – not sure if this is good or bad, but it means that on the phone if your voice in androgynous you can get away with not letting people know each way. I tend to let people go with Mr if they start with Mr, and if they start with Ms ‘Actually it’s Dr’ is accurate, but doesn’t really correct the error, so I tend to say ‘actually it’s Mr’. Which is technically incorrect but only deception if they then believe I’m using the title to suggest I’m a member of the Royal College of Surgeon, which I’m not.
7. Surgery is much easier to deal with if you understand what’s happening properly I had surgery ‘before’ when I was a preclinical medical student – and ‘after’ and it was far less scarey afterwards. It’s also easier to deal with post op pain if you know what it is and how to deal with it.
8. It means you know who the best and worst surgeons are in your area.
9. It means you can afford to go private when you can’t get surgery on the NHS.
10. It’s not super-accepting, but most people have more interesting lives, and have better things to do than to gossip about transsexuals.
11. Just thought of a new one – for most parents however pissed of they are that you are transsexual, once you are a Doctor and they can tell all their friends that they’re son or daughter is a doctor all is forgiven.

These are all reasons why I don’t post on transsexual message boards. I don’t really feel I have the same issues your average trans person does.