From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@w...>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:33:00 +1100
Subject: Re: [GZG] [OT]Mid Life Refit
Hi to one and all. After an extensive mid-life refit and field upgrade, I'm back in service. As it turns out, less work needed doing than first thought, and the results of the surgery were not just better than I'd expected, or better than I'd hoped, but better than I thought physiologically possible. OTOH I was even weirder internally than anyone expected. To everyone's surprise (mine too) it was confirmed during surgery that a normal male to female sex reassignment operation was impossible as I was not male, but Intersexed, and didn't have the right bits internally. The more complex procedure, where the surgeon constructs the new female bits out of the bits that would have been female in a natal woman, even if it means moving stuff around a lot more, was a resounding success, the tissue was in many cases already partly feminised. No wonder things felt uncomfy in the past - and rather than having to learn a new body-map, as most do, I already had the female neural device-drivers installed for the new peripherals. I'll still take months to heal completely, but the result is excellent.