Sas, Srs, Grs

[pennyjane]

hi, i'm pj. i guess it is my privilege to get this forum off to it's start. i am four months post op. there are different intitials to describe the surgery that was, when it was new, "the sex change " i prefer my own. grs...g r s...<genital reconfiguration surgery> this is what actually happens. my sex was not in denial so i don't put alot of stock in the new sas <sexual affirmation surgery>. srs, well, i guess that's ok as well as grs <genital reassignment surgery>. i still like mine best. any thoughts? lotsa love and hope, pj

[MaryEllen]

Hi PennyJane,

I think it's a matter of personal preference. What ever the individual feels comfortable with. One thing is for certain. What ever you call it, it definately does not mean sex change.

MaryEllen

[Guest karen_h]

hi, i'm pj. i guess it is my privilege to get this forum off to it's start. i am four months post op. there are different intitials to describe the surgery that was, when it was new, "the sex change " i prefer my own. grs...g r s...<genital reconfiguration surgery> this is what actually happens. my sex was not in denial so i don't put alot of stock in the new sas <sexual affirmation surgery>. srs, well, i guess that's ok as well as grs <genital reassignment surgery>. i still like mine best. any thoughts? lotsa love and hope, pj

i like srs it's easier to type

[Guest angie]

Though my surgery is in the future,about a year from now,i hope.

My personal preferance for the surgical name is...

Gender Corrective Surgery.

It is correcting a defect i was born with.

Making me the gender i should have been born.

But,each has our own prespective hmmm?

Angie.

[Guest Zenda]

Half a dozen of one or six of the other... Sex change surgery-changing ones[sex] 'private parts' which is true... Gender corrective surgery' Restoring ones gender which is also true. Gender affirming surgery-Establishing or strengthening by surgically means -changing ones 'private parts' to match your true 'gender identity' is also true. The list goes on and on...DOES IT REALLY MATTER ? The end result remains the same...There's more than one way to skin a cat and by 'cat' I mean ones 'private parts'!

[Guest angie]

Howdy Mr.August,

I might have a suggestion about your incontinence.

Here i what you might try.

Squeeze your PC Muscle for three seconds at a time then relax.

Not sure what the PC Muscle is?

Pretend you have got to go potty real bad and you are holding your cheeks as tight as you can.

You will feel the muscles in your groin tighten,that is the PC.

As you do this ,which can be done anytime anywhere.

The muscles will be trained through repetition.

You might try this,i can't say this is the cure,but you have nothing to lose.

And it cost nothing but a little time and very little energy.

Hugs August,

Angie.

[Guest Stephanie Butterfield]

Congrats Petra Jane,

Judging from my gender psychhiatrist's comments yesterday my surgery could be as early as spring 2009, can't wait for that second opinion and a meeting with my surgeon. I personally don't care what initials they add to describe it, but like most girls I hate the term sex change, I'm not changing my sex I'm affirming or reassigning my gender, given it was wrongly assigned at birth.

Whatever peeps want to call it, it all comes down to having it done, I know when I wake up in the hospital Ii'll be in pain but I'll have the biggest smile of my life.

Stephanie

[Sakura]

sex change surgery seems to fit a little bit better than the others GAS gender affrimation sugery the list goes on gender affrimation surgery implies that my gender is in correct and needs affirmed or GRS gender reasignment surgery seems lame to because i know my gender is female it dosnt need to be reasigned they can really call it mudd for all i care lol i dont get hung up on the initals could just call it the vaginal plasty is usally what i go with

Sakura

[Guest RainBird]

GRS, SRS, GAS.. What ever floats your boat is fine

I personally refer to it as 'genital reassignment'.. but anyway..

I long for this day so much!!!

I absolutely hate my genetic 'bits'..

I found a way that I'm able to really enjoy intimacy in the mean time being pre-op with another man, I use my umm.. yes.. that one!

It feels fantastic and is almost like being post-op.

I don't like male stimulation at all or even to touch my genitals, it's very depressing..

xx

[Guest Martin]

I actually do consider my top surgery and my coming bottom surgeries to be "sex change" operations. They aren't changing my gender because my gender was always the same. However, my sex - the physical characteristics - DID change. While I was always a guy, I changed from being female-bodied (*shudder*) to being male-bodied (or at least close to it).

[Sally]

Well when you get right down to it, I dislike labels of any kind. I'm not wild about transsexual or sex change, but as my therapist put it, "It doesn't matter what you call it - it is what it is." We had been through several sessions and she was asking me about my sexual orientation - as a man I'm heterosexual (there we go with labels again) and my wife and I are planning to stay together. My therapist looked at me one day and said, "Don't get to attached to the heterosexual label, becasuse - Girl, you're a Lesbian!" I had never thought about it that way and while (as with everything else) I hate the label, I can see the truth in the statement. I love my wife and she loves me so we are not going to let labels determine what we do.

Forget what they call it and have it done if that is your path and if that is not on your path, what possible difference could it make?

Sally (no labels attached)

[Sally]

Well I'm still pre-op, but I have always hated labels of any kind. I'm a transsexual - I din't choose and don't care for that label, but that's what 'they' call it. My therapist is always good for a quote, she said, "It doesn't matter what you call it, it is what it is." When discusing my sexual orientation, heterosexual (another label I don't care for) as a male, but as to what I will be after transitioning with my wife and I planning on staying together she said, "Girl, you are a Lesbian!" They are just labels - they don't really define anything - you are who you are and the surgery is what it is. Call it Beautification of the Nether Regions or BNR - it just doesn't change anything, not even persecption.

If the surgery is on your path, have it and call it what ever you want to, if it isn't in your future - then it can't matter what it is called.

Looking forwar to the GRNB* surgery,

Sally

*Getting Rid of the Nasty Bits

[Guest Jorja]

Hi PennyJane,

I'm new to the forum, my name is Jorja. I am now 16 weeks post op. As for what to call the surgery, I like GRS (genital reconfiguration surgery). I believe gender is in the mind not between the legs. At this point all I know for sure is that I am happier than I have ever been.

Jorja

[Guest kelise]

My personal favorite is McGinn's "Gender Confirmation Surgery"

[Guest N. Jane]

I just prefer "corrective surgery".