Word: genderization
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...confused with homosexuals and transvestites. Classic transexuals are born with the anatomy of one sex but suffer from a total, lifelong identification with the other, perhaps influenced by prenatal hormone disturbances. Transexuals generally disdain association with professed homosexuals. Unlike transvestites, they do not dress in clothes of the opposite gender for erotic stimulation, but simply because they feel more comfortable that...
Careful Screening. Though the first modern medically supervised sex-change operation took place in Europe in 1930, transexual surgery did not attract wide notice until the transformation of a former G.I. named George Jorgensen to Christine* in 1952. In 1966 Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore opened its Gender Identity Clinic, having the year before performed its first complete transexual operation. University hospitals at Minnesota, Stanford, Northwestern, Arkansas, Michigan, Kentucky, Virginia and a few others soon followed suit...
...Stanford's Gender Dysphoria Program, headed by Psychiatrist Norman Fisk and Plastic Surgeon Donald Laub, applicants for surgery are carefully screened. For those who doctors feel could benefit from an operation, at least a full year of hormonal therapy is prescribed: estrogens and progestins to enlarge the breasts and soften the skin on men, and androgens to deepen the voices and stimulate beards on women...
During their hormone therapy, patients are asked to adopt the characteristics of their new gender. Transexual men don dresses, wear makeup, live and work as women. Transexual women wear men's clothes and live as men. After a year, if doctors judge the adjustment to new life-styles a success, surgery is performed...
...Eaton "the President slapped me." But he gave CBS a slightly different version two days afterward. What Nixon had actually asked, Kleizo recalled, was "something like, 'Are you the boy's grandmother or grandfather?' "-a more understandable slip of the tongue than the total confusion of gender reported originally. "Then," Kleizo continued, "he looked back and tapped me affectionately on the cheek, sort of like putting shaving lotion...