The Taqua of Marriage

(Dana P.) #1

In addition to the Transsexual category is an anomaly now called the ‘Third
Sex’:


Prior to recognition of transsexualism as a disorder deserving medical and
psychiatric attention many patients self-mutilated or committed suicide out of
despair. Transsexual patients are helped by sympathetic assessment and
intervention ... A recent development in the pattern of patients presenting clinically
are those with a transgendered identity popularly known as ‘the third sex'. These
males or females do not request ‘sex change'. Rather, they want, if male, to be
demasculinized and, if female, to be defeminized. Thus males want castration and
penectomy but no oestrogen treatment and no neovagina, and females want
mastectomy, perhaps hysterectomy, but no androgen treatment and no neophallus.
These patients pose a dilemma for clinicians. The crux of patient management for
gender identity disorder [Transexual] is the ‘Real Life Test' including cross-sex
hormonal treatment, the prelude to possible surgical alteration. Reversible
procedures precede those that are irreversible in this management strategy. But
with these third-sex patients , no ‘Real Life Test' is possible. They do not have a trial
period. Guidelines for testing the rationality and stability of their requests need to
evolve from the body of clinicians currently attempting management of this unique
population.^50

 Androgyne baphomet of the
Freemasons and Adam Kadmon of the
Kabala

It is clear that just as mercury has
profound teratogenic effects on fetal
developmental form and function—
which predisposes us towards pity and
compassionate support for these
profoundly handicapped victims—it appears we must similarly position our
perspective towards sufferers of heterodox sexual orientations after
considering causes of relative hormonal deficit or excess below.


In addition to and notwithstanding the valid entities just described as victims
of bio-errors, are several sexual digressions that are indeed socially


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New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (September 2003): by Michael G. Gelder (Editor), Juan J.
Lopez-Ibor (Editor), Nancy Andreasen (Editor), Jaun J. Lopez-Idor By Oxford University
Press, p. 118.

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