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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I know a pre-op transsexual, and s/he has demonstrated why they're required to go through intense psych evaluations before they're allowed to go through the whole thing.
On a similar vein, thanks to storms in Houston yesterday, my flight was delayed four hours after we'd boarded, and I was able to finish Middlesex. At times it got to be a bit tedious, but I really enjoyed the characters. Euginedes talks at one point about emotions being extraordinarily complex and simple words like "sad" or "disappointed" don't convey that complexity. This book, I thought, was very good at showing the range of complexity of human emotion.
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The one transgendered person that I knew (she has fallen out of my circle of friends) was pretty psychologically messed up. I don't think any doctor would carry through on the surgery for her. I did really feel for her and hope that some of the required counseling would help with her apparent pain/depression.
Re: Middlesex, I read the beginning and then put it down for something that I was more interested in at the time. It would be hard to pick back up again at this point, but maybe I'll do so while travelling this fall/winter.
