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Doctors point of views:

       As of 2016, it is generally difficult to find doctors that support transsexuality. Transgender patients often time have to prepare themselves before walking into a doctors office for the fact they might get turned away by the doctor because they do not want to treat them. For instance, in 2014 Kailey Truscott went to her doctor with a note from her therapist, saying that she had known she was meant to be a women since she was 7 <Boerner>. Her doctor told her she has never treated a patient who was transitioning so she would not start now so she got turned away <Boerner>. Like Truscott’s doctor, there are some which is usually most doctors, who do not feel comfortable treating transsexual people. Although they are hard to find, there are some doctors out there who do feel comfortable treating transsexuals. 
         One doctor who does not agree with the existence of transsexuality is Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for John Hopkins Hospital and is the current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Hopkins. He argues that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that needs to be treated <Chapman>.  He also states that changing your sex is “’biologically impossible,’ and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” <Chapman>.  Dr. McHugh has written six books and at the least 125 peer-reviewed medical articles. He recently made comments in the Wall Street Journal saying that “transgender surgery is not the solution for people who suffer a “disorder of ‘assumption’” – the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically” <Chapman>. 

While McHugh argues against transgenderism, a pediatric endocrinologist Norman P. Spack works with and supports transgender youth. He argues that instead of being a mental disorder, as McHugh likes to call it, that it is a medical condition,and has been quoted as saying that "looking at transgenderism from a medical perspective will change the public perception that it is a psychological problem” <Underwood>. Spack is also the senior associate in the endocrine division at Boston Children’s Hospital. He help co-found a treatment plan at the clinic called Gender Services Program (GEMs) that aims to slow puberty down for children questioning their gender <Underwood>. According to Spack, "the primary goal of the GeMS clinic is to provide medical treatment to appropriately screen gender dysphoric adolescents, along with the comprehensive psychological evaluation recommended by the Adolescent Gender Identity Research Group (AGIR) and the Endocrine Society for making this clinical decision. The clinic does not currently provide ongoing mental health services to patients and families but assists families in finding appropriate mental health therapists in their communities. In addition, a Children's Hospital Boston staff psychiatrist, who specializes in gender identity and sexuality issues, is available to provide both psychotherapy and psychopharmacological treatment where needed" <Psychological Evaluation>. By stalling a persons puberty it delays the physical changes of ones body that have nothing to do with that persons psychological perspective. One of Spack’s assistants in the clinic says, “Dr. Spack’s help has made such a huge difference in the patients’ lives” <Underwood>. Spack states that 35 percent of his patients served by the clinic have tried to physically harm themselves or have thought about suicide prior to seeking medical help. “Post-medication, the patients give testimonies of better interactions in school, a better environment at home, and functioning a whole lot better,” said Stanley R. Vance, a student at Harvard Medical School who also works in Spack’s clinic. “Dr. Spack is a trailblazer in an area of medicine that hasn’t gotten adequate attention” <Underwood>. Spack realizes that it is known as a mental disorder, but he and other members of the medical community want to push back and frame it, instead as a medical condition rather than a disorder.

Boerner, Heather. "Transgender? A Doctor Won’t See You Now." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 18 Sept. 2015. Web. 21 Apr. 2016.

Chapman, Michael W. "Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist: Transgender Is 'Mental Disorder;' Sex Change 'Biologically Impossible'" CNS News. N.p., 02 June 2015. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.

"Psychological Evaluation and Medical Treatment of Transgender Youth in an Interdisciplinary “Gender Management Service” (GeMS) in a Major Pediatric Center." N.p., 28 Mar. 2012. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.

Underwood, Alice E. M. "Doctor Promotes Medical View of Transgenderism | News | The Harvard Crimson." Doctor Promotes Medical View of Transgenderism | News | The Harvard Crimson. N.p., 24 Nov. 2009. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.

Becoming What We Love

           The sexual attraction to become a women have increased rapidly. More and more men have undergone sex reassignment to completely transform in to the women they want to be. For men, their attraction is mostly to the feeling of being able to dress in female clothing and look sexy. They live out their life as a father and a husband by day and cross-dresser by night. In an article by Anne A. Lawrence she talks about a man’s fantasy of becoming a women <Lawrence>. She uses the word autogynephilic a lot, the paraphilic tendency of a male to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female. This is also considered to be a gender identity disorder in some cases. He considers cross-dressing by heterosexual a type of paraphilia that subject men who are straight to act life women just because of their love for feminine things. It could also coexist with their sexual attraction toward men. He uses the term analloerotic meaning "not sexually attracted to other people" to describe men who favor dressing as women but are not mentally attracted to either sex.   
           The main focus in this article is to address the ideas that were ignored by Blanchard on his theory of Autogynephilic Transsexualism. Blanchard himself is a transsexual male to female and many of his transsexual peers disagreed with his ideas <Blanchard>. He actually did a study to test if transsexual men were actually aroused by other men that caused them to dress like a women or to see if dressing like a women was actually what aroused them. He talks about the terms “androphilia”, which describes sexual attraction to men or masculinity; and “gynephilia” which describes the sexual attraction to women or femininity. He came to the conclusion that in most cases men were mostly attracted to the feeling of looking and acting like a women rather than attracted to the men <Blanchard>. Not all men who dress like a women are considered homosexual. The idea that all transsexual men are attracted to other men was basically clarified that that was not always the case.
          

Blanchard, R. 1989b. The concept of autogynephilia and the typology of male gender dysphoria. J Nerv Ment Dis 177(10):616–23.

Lawrence, Anne A. 2007. "BECOMING WHAT WE LOVE." Perspectives In Biology & Medicine 50, no. 4: 506-52

Sandbox v. Sandbox Talk Page

Hi Macy2015, your article is here in the talk page of your sandbox rather than in your sandbox proper. See the two tabs towards the top of the page - "User Page" will take you to your sandbox. that is where your writing should be. The talk page (here) should just be for communication between you and other wikipedia users. Leave it until after our peer review tomorrow, but then if you would, please move it to your sandbox. Transunicorn (talk) 20:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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• In modern day society it can be easy to find doctors who support transsexuality but for most people, it is very difficult depending on what city and state you are in.

• There has been many cases where people that are transgendered get harassed by a medical professional when that is where people are supposed to feel safe.

• Make sure that all 5 of your paragraphs are together! Everything that is bolded is sentence changes or grammatical error changes. Other than these 3 things, you did a great job. You stayed on topic the entire time. You found research on both points of views and stayed unbiased. When talking about organization, you should have all 5 of your paragraphs together. Your references should be at the end of your writing, in order of how they’re used in your writing, at the end. All of your external and internal links work well. Everything is that is stated is sourced in your writing. I found it interesting that more people are wanting to become women. You would think that with the whole feminist movement and less pay/rights for women, people would want to become a man instead. Haertk2 (talk) 13:19, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

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I am able to follow what the topic is about. It is clearly stated throughout the page. Some sentences seem choppy. For example, “Often times the transgender patient has to prepare themselves before walking into a doctors office for the fact they might be walked out on by the doctor or get called a mental patient.” This could be worded like, “People who are transgender may have difficulty finding a physician who is willing to work with them and respect their life-style. Often times the transgender patient has to mentally prepare themselves before walking into a doctor’s office. They might have to deal with the doctor’s rejection of not wanting to work on them. The transgender patient may also experience being called a mental patient. There are situations where the doctor does not know how to address a transgender patient.” It doesn’t have to be this exactly. There are also minor spelling errors for example, “times” or “transexuality” or “doctors” or “Hospitial”. The topic on transgender is very interesting and well thought-out. I really like how you added the source of a doctor’s point of view. It helps to support what you are talking about.

The other topic on “Becoming What We Love” is very good. I did not see any misspellings and the sentences are very clear and well written. 

Citations seem to support everything you have written, which it’s really good. Overall very good, just minor things. Scaban2 (talk) 13:28, 17 March 2016 (UTC)