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Yeah we wouldn't want to bring actual science/statistics into a debate about your FEELINGS, would we? Today we look at a report from The Guardian (UK) from July 2004 that included a review of more than 100 international medical studies of post-operative transgenders by the University of Birmingham aggressive research intelligence facility. They found "no robust scientific evidence that gender reassignment surgery is clinically effective." Seeing that they reviewed not just one study but 100 international studies makes this report alarming. In my view, this shows that failure comes all too often for transgenders and it is so unnecessary. The Guardian reports: After gender reassignment, there's still a large number of people who had the surgery but remain traumatized - often to the point of committing suicide. Research from the US and Holland suggests that up to a fifth (20%) of patients regret changing sex. Sex changes are not effective, say researchers | Society | The Guardian Thirty-five years ago, in 1979, uncertainty about gender change success was surfacing. At Johns Hopkins Hospital concerns about the reported success rates of changing genders and whether Dr. Money had been falsifying the reports of sex change success prompted a review. Dr. Paul Mc Hugh commissioned Dr. Meyer to study post-operative transsexuals from the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic program. Dr. Meyer's results were far different than Money's reports of success a decade earlier and also validated the concerns regarding Dr. Money and his reports. Dr. Meyer said, To say that this type of surgery cures psychiatric disturbance is incorrect.” As a result of studying the results of Hopkins patients, Hopkins closed its gender clinic and university-based gender clinics around the country began to close. http://www.baltimorestyle.com/index.php/style/features_article/fe_sexchange_jf07 Also in 1979, Dr. Ihlenfeld, a former associate of Dr. Harry Benjamin, told an audience extreme care should be given in using cross gender hormones because 80% of patents who want to change their sex shouldn't do it. "There is too much unhappiness among people who have had the surgery," he said. "Too many of them end as suicides."IHLENFELD CAUTIONS ON HORMONES Madeline Wyndzen, a transgendered psychology professor, writes, "50% of transgenders could be struggling with suicide attempts, regret, anger and unhappiness living in a transgender sub-culture rather than being part of the larger world.”Transition? I say it is important to take every precaution prior to surgery to avoid regret. Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Surveysays a staggering 41% of transgenders surveyed report they have attempted suicide and that those who have medically transitioned and surgically transitioned have higher rates of attempted suicide than the general population. Ttransgenders have higher rate of HIV infections. They are more prone to heavy drinking and the use of drugs. They have high rates of homelessness, unemployment and extreme poverty, even more so in the more difficult economic times of the last 5 years.http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_report_on_health.pdf

So "babe" was polite? Amazing how you only see my reply, right?

This annoys me to no end. This dictating behavior that you people feel so comfortable with. That you can sit there and tell others what to believe in life and what base decisions they should make because of a personal belief structure that doesn't follow EXACTLY what you want. How extraordinarily arrogant of you. Welcome to life. Not everyone is going to reflect exactly what you want at any given moment. The very fact that you disapprove of someone else having an opinion opposite yours doesn't even cross your mind as ironic. No matter what spin or how much shine you put on it you simply want everyone to fall in line with you. You aren't getting it, so step off.

You talk about "Respect" then call me "BABE"? And I'm a man. Ex-military to boot. You are obnoxious.

Glad you're here to dictate to the rest of humanity how we should feel about x anything from your self righteous perch. You far left lunatics have infected every corner of life and think that you're right about whatever the topic at hand might be at the time just because you say so. I did not give up my individuality when I became a nurse and I damn well didn't ask for your approval about any opinion I hold. So you can step off with your pronouncements about what I should think at any given point in life about any topic. The very idea that I'm supposed to be your drone and mirror your attitudes and wishes is patently offensive.

So cutting off an arm is a nihilistic delusion, but cutting off the member is seeking the "true self". Oh this makes me laugh.

So how about the people who feel they are "trans-abled"? I bet you haven't heard of that yet, have you? There's a subset of people out there who feel they should have been born without an arm, or a legs or eyes or what have you. They try to attain surgery to correct what they feel is a mistake and get to the "true them". Sound like mental illness to you? It sure does to me. Feel free to google for this, I'm not making it up. Are you going to believe that people born with vision are anything less than mentally ill when they WANT to be blinded? How are you going to reconcile your belief in transsexuals vs that of trans-abled? Where does it stop? Is wanting to be a horse ok? Should society and individuals just overlook what is decidedly mental illness because it might actually offend someone?

75 questions Passed. 30+ SATA, a few drag and drop, MC. No math, no diagrams, no audio. I would have welcomed anything with that many SATA.

I took it the 10th and passed. 75 questions and out. I did NCBSN for practice, but to be honest I only did 200 or so of those questions. I was lazy. I arrived a few hours early and studied some stuff in the car.

Just turned 43 and became an RN. 26. LOL, I wish.

I'm kind of stuck in the same situation, although you seem much more depressed about it. Nursing is not my dream job, and to be fair about it I don't think most people end up doing what they really want in life. You have to put food on the table at the expense of dreams in many cases. In my case I live in an area that has a number of factory jobs and little else. My choices were limited, so I chose the most expansive field where I could find a niche I didn't despise: Nursing. I just became an RN on the 10th. If you don't feel the ER is right for you move on to something else. The great thing about nursing is that there exists such a wide variety of jobs that everyone can find something. Find a passion in life. It doesn't have to be your job. Take care.

I'm with Parakeet. "Trans" anything speaks to me of mental illness. If these people came in wanting to be squirrels or hamsters they would be treated for mental illness. The "trans" population is mentally ill and I'm not going to accept it. I will treat them with same respect and care I treat any other patient with, but I'm not going to accept what I consider outright deviance in my own life. The people here who have the real problem are those of you eager to scream "bigot" and other nonsense at others.