Feeling sad for people

Sex Change Hospital on More 4. It’s quite sad that some individuals feel so ill-at-ease with their own bodies, they cannot identify with the gender they were born with, and they end up spending so much money and suffer so much discomfort and pain to try and feel normal.

I wonder if my mother worried about whether I suffered from gender dysphoria when I was younger, I always wanted to be a boy back then (I think I felt that I couldn’t do as much as a girl). I am comfortable in my own skin, though, and have been for a number of years, so the status quo has been preserved.

• 31 May 2007

• Thinking