jff(etamorpbo~i~ Vol.1, No.1 "The Newsletter Exclusively For F-M Men"\ FEBRUARY 1982 Introducing••• F-M TS DEFINED METAMORPHOSIS: a bi-monthly news­ A female-to-male transsexual (F-M) letter, edited/published by Rupert is a biological female who assumes Raj, exclusively for female-to~ale at a very early age (1!-3 years) a transsexual MEN (and their families 'core gender identity' that is mas­ wives/girlfriends) as well as for culine and identifies with the male professionals and para-profession­ gender~role (as represented by the als interested in female TSism. father, older brother or other male model). 11 She 11 acts the rough and The annual subscription rate is $12 tumble tomboy throughout childhood for six issues. The current intro­ often playing sports and games and ductory issue is comPlimentary (a fighting with boys the same age. one-time limited off.er), so you pay "She" bitterly resents female pub­ only $10 for the five remaining escence (breast development, mens­ issues. Please make cheque or money truation) as unbearably humiliating order payable ta METAMORPHOSIS, and frustratingly unfair inasmuch P.O. Box 5963, Station A, Toronto, as "she" is "turned off" by boys Ontario, Canada M5W 1P4. (since "she" believes "she" should have been born one "herself") and Three ad inserts (business card­ is sexually "turned on" to girls. size or 40-word maximum) per year As an ad u 1 t, "she " is c 1assica11 y are permitted free-of-charge to diagnosed as suffering from "gender paid-up subscribers. Non-subscriber dysphoria syndrome" (transexualism) rates are: full page: $20, half­ and is generally recommended for page: $10, quarter-page: $5, eighth hormonal and surgical sex reassign­ page/business card-size: $3. Per­ ment to that of a male (after a two sonal ad rates (40-word maximum) year "Real Life Test" of dressing, are free to subscribers, $3 for working and living full-time as a non-subscribers. man). Postoperatively, he typically assumes the social gender-roles of The initial issue has less content man, boyfriend, husband, breadwin­ than (hopefully) future issueswill ner and (sometimes even) father. have. Tentative features for up­ coming issues will be: original The ratio of females reassigning a.cti cle s on FT Si sm (writ ten by my­ as male as compared to males chang­ self and others); clinical resee.rch ing sex to female is currently es­ on FTSism (and TSis~ in general) timated by some sources as ~ by sex researchers specializing in (female) to two (males) and even gender dysphoria; information on: as high aS-one to one by others. hormones, surgery, passing, legal reform; book reviews; referrals; The female transsexual has it bet­ poetry; cartoons; jokes; letters ter than "her" male counterpart as to the editor; success stories/ far as the endocrinological changes personal profiles/mini autobiogra­ go (cessation of the menses, beard phies on F-M men; anecdotes; per­ growth, deepened voice, heightened sonal and commercial advertisemen~ libido, muscular development, re­ distribution of bodily fat) but Please submit your letters, ques­ 11 she 11 is not as fortunate as the tions, comments, suggestions, per- male transsexual as far as surgAry (cont' d on p.8) (cont'd on p.2) BIBLIOGRAPHY F-M TS DEFINED (cont'd) BUT FOR THE GRACE, Robert Allen, ~oes (the breasts, uterus and ovar­ W.H. Allen, 1954.(F-M autobiography). ies can be surgically removed but ~he_surg~cal cons~ruction of a pen­ EMERGENCE: A Transsexual Autobio­ is is still experimental in nature graphy, Mario Martino with harriet fraught with complications and sub~ New York: Crown Publishers, 1977; sequen~ surgical repair, very pain­ ful, time-consuming, prohibitively Signet, New American Library, 197~ expensive and without guarantee as to its functional success). There­ INFORMATION FOR THE FEMALE-TO-MAL~ Louis Sullivan, 1980, The Janus fore, there is a very great need Information Facility, 1952 Union a for the production of anonsurgica1 San Francisco, CA 94123, $1. functional, penile prosthesis! PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY Five Fine Fabulous Famous F-M OF THE GENITAL ARE~ Charles Horto~ Fellows (by alpha be ti cal order) Ed., Little, Brown and Co., 1973. (Includes a chapter on techniques STEVE DAIN, M.A., Therapist, Con­ for mastectomy and phalloplasty). sultant, Sexologist, Box 684, Union City, CA 9458% Formerly, a female THE MALE HORMONE, Paul de Kruif, physical education teacher--fired New York: Garden City Pub. Co., 19- because of the "sex-change" but was 45; Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1947. awarded compensation by the courts. MAN & WOMAN/BOY & GIRL: The Differ­ NICHOLAS C. GHOSH, B.A., Co-Founder entiation and Dimorphism of Gender of the FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCE­ Identity from Conception to Maturi­ ME~T OF CANADIAN TRANSSEXUALS; Ex­ ty, John Money & Anke Ehrhardt, Edi tor of GENDER REVIEW, Toronto, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Ontario. Psychology major. Press, 1972. MARIO MARTINO, Ph.D., Director of SEX AND GENDER, Vol. II: The Trans­ the LABYRINTH FOUNDATION COUNSELING sexual Experiment, Robert Stoller, GENDER SERVICE~ ~2 Windsor Terrac~ t1 D., New York: Jason Aronson, 1975. Yonkers, NY 10701. Co-author of EMERGENCE. Formerly a Catholic nun. SEXUAL IDENTITY CONFLICT IN CHILD­ Also has degrees in nursing and law. REN AND ADULTS, Richard Green, M. D., New York: Basic Books, 1974; Penguin JUDE PATTON, Marriage, Family and Books, Baltimore/Markham, 1975. Child Therapist, COMPREHENSIVE ~EALTH CARE CENTER, Laguna Hills, SEXUAL SIGNATURES: On Being A Man CA; Co-Director of RENAISSANCE: Or A Woman, John Money & Patricia ~ender Identity Services, Box 11341, Santa Ana, CA 92711; Editor of Tucke~ New York: Littl~ Brown,1976. RENAISSANCE Newsletter; Member of THE TRANSSEXUAL PHENOMENON, Harry the Founding Committee of the HARRY Benjamin, M.D., New York: Julian BENJAMIN INTERNATIONAL GENDER Press, 1966; Warner, New York, 197i DYSPHORIA ASSOCIATION. THE WELL OF LONELINESS, Radclyffe ERIK SCHINEGGER. Formerly a world Hall, Corgi Books, 1928. (F-M a11t.o.) champion female skier (Austrian). ~fade medical history by "changing sex" to male and fathering a baby! 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This form of discrimination in hir­ I used to have an inferiority com­ in~ is, sadly enough, widely pre­ plex about being short (I'm 5'4") valent--though not commonly known especially in relation to a taller or publicized--and of course, al­ dancing partner or female companio~ most impossible to prove in court. Most of you F-M men can empathize with my feelings of self-conscious­ It is hardly to be expected that ness and statural inadequacy inas­ the Ontario Human Rights Commission much as the probable height range will, unsolicited, see fit to in­ of F-Ms would approximate 4·' 9" to clude "physical stature" as one 5'9". (I know two F-Ms who attain more characteristic not to be dis­ these two statures respectively). criminated against. Therefore, it is up to each and everyone of us In fact, many of you have probably who falls victim to such "short­ echoed the sentiments of MASH's TV sighted" prejudice to report it at star 'Radar', upon purchasing a onca to the Ontario Human Rights pair of elevator shoes: "You don't Hotline: (416) 965-2i16. know what it's like being short-­ always the last one to be picked But, subjectively speakin§ I think for the team, looking girls in the I have more or less resolved my throat, people always making fun of "short complex" for even though all me." However, it would be well my three brothers are taller than worth our while to take note of co­ me, I'm the hairiest of the lot, star 'Hawkeye's reply to Radar's being the only one able to grow expression of frustration: "There's chest hair as well ~s a thick height that some people never see. beard. So, I'm short~-but hairy! Some people's minds are ten feet And, as a buddy of mine once re­ tall but their bodies don't know marked, "You're small but mighty!" it." A truly eloquent, perceptive And this applies to all short men response! 'Right on!.' · if they also possess: a big heart, a broad mind, a deep soul, a strong Notwithstanding Hawkeye's reassur­ spirit, a great insigh~ an~ most ing observation, however, there is importantly, a wide consciousness.