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"''I really wish that people would not refer of my non-gendered identity as my ”gender identity”. I am non-gendered. I have a core identity that is as real and valid as the core identity of any gendered person but it is not a gender identity. It is an identity.''" [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2011/02/02/] | "''I really wish that people would not refer of my non-gendered identity as my ”gender identity”. I am non-gendered. I have a core identity that is as real and valid as the core identity of any gendered person but it is not a gender identity. It is an identity.''" [http://elancane.livejournal.com/2011/02/02/] | ||
Excerpt from 'Im Just A Sweet Transgenderist', The | Excerpt from 'Im Just A Sweet Transgenderist', The Independant 27th March 1995 [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html]; | ||
: ''"...Christie Elan-Cane, 36, appears somewhere further along the gender continuum than Zoltar, with a shaved head, flat chest and khaki shirt. Now based in London, he grew up convinced he occupied the wrong body, but also believed he wasn't a man. Standing naked before a mirror was a torturous reminder of Christie's problem, and he dieted continuously, hoping his hated breasts would disappear. At 26, Christie began looking for a surgeon who would perform a [[Top surgery#Mastectomy|double mastectomy]]. The first recoiled with horror, and even when Christie found the right surgeon, it took more than a year to raise the funds to pay for the operation. During that period, Christie began to wonder "if I was going against nature", and at his lowest moments he contemplated "getting a chisel and doing something about it myself". Finally, Christie went under the knife. "The anaesthetist asked whether I wanted to go through with it and I said `yes', because I knew if I didn't, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. The next thing I remember is waking up again. I could feel through the bandages that my chest was flat and it was the happiest moment of my life." The second stage of Christie's operation was a [[hysterectomy]]. "I now feel happy with my body and myself - I don't have the same confusion or distress."''<ref name="Wheelwright">{{Cite web |title=I'm just a sweet transgenderist |last=Wheelwright |first=Julie |work=The Independent |date=27 March 1995 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203090352/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | : ''"...Christie Elan-Cane, 36, appears somewhere further along the gender continuum than Zoltar, with a shaved head, flat chest and khaki shirt. Now based in London, he grew up convinced he occupied the wrong body, but also believed he wasn't a man. Standing naked before a mirror was a torturous reminder of Christie's problem, and he dieted continuously, hoping his hated breasts would disappear. At 26, Christie began looking for a surgeon who would perform a [[Top surgery#Mastectomy|double mastectomy]]. The first recoiled with horror, and even when Christie found the right surgeon, it took more than a year to raise the funds to pay for the operation. During that period, Christie began to wonder "if I was going against nature", and at his lowest moments he contemplated "getting a chisel and doing something about it myself". Finally, Christie went under the knife. "The anaesthetist asked whether I wanted to go through with it and I said `yes', because I knew if I didn't, I'd regret it for the rest of my life. The next thing I remember is waking up again. I could feel through the bandages that my chest was flat and it was the happiest moment of my life." The second stage of Christie's operation was a [[hysterectomy]]. "I now feel happy with my body and myself - I don't have the same confusion or distress."''<ref name="Wheelwright">{{Cite web |title=I'm just a sweet transgenderist |last=Wheelwright |first=Julie |work=The Independent |date=27 March 1995 |access-date=30 April 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203090352/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/im-just-a-sweet-transgenderist-1613010.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> |