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Volume II, Number 3, Juli - September 1998
Gender
Role Reversal among Postoperative Transsexuals
A.J. Kuiper, Ph.D. and P.T. Cohen-Kettenis, Ph.D.
Abstract
 Although sex reassignment
surgery (SRS) is an effective treatment method with largely successful results, clinicians
occasionally come across persons who regret their decision to undergo SRS. This regret can
be inferred from their overt behavior, such as a second social role reversal, or their
statements that they regret the steps they have taken. However, their statements and
behavior do not always correspond. By means of a semistructured interview, we have
extensively interviewed 10 persons who reported feelings of regret or whose overt behavior
indicated a significant degree of non-successful postoperative functioning, possibly
associated with regret. It appeared that the majority of this group had a (very) late
start of cross-dressing and serious psychological problems, which do not merely seem to be
a result of their gender dysphoria, before requesting SRS. |
