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Recommendations from Remy D.

• Referral from March 12, 2014
  

  Suzi G. asked:

  I need someone to write my second letter for surgery. My current therapist already wrote my first letter. I saw someone else once (Dr. Greg Lehne) and he's insisting on another $190.00 for a second visit before he clears me. I found him pompous and arrogant and I really don't want to see him again. Does anyone know of a gender therapist who might write me my second letter?

  

  Remy D. replied:

  Dear Suzi, From what you just responded with, I'd say it's no wonder that the doctor wants to speak to you more than once. I've known other folks like yourself that want their surgery yesterday. So, yes, whether you have it straight (excuse the term) in your head, who you are, what you want, that belies the fact that the doctors still have to make a proper medical evaluation. If you are this impatient to obtain your surgery, you most definitely have other problem issues to address or perhaps to undress? And you are precisely the type of person right now, the doctors want to avoid. So for Christ's sake... man up... spend your $190 and have Greg write a letter for you. What's so difficult about that to understand? How old is your emotional maturity? You want it your way but that's not how life goes in case you hadn't noticed yet? You could be a freakin' genius at 12 years of age but yet still can't just jump into your junior year in high school. You have to follow the proper medical procedures that by law, the doctors must follow. And you don't seem to understand that? You're acting like a child. Don't be like that. That only proves that you are not stable enough for a doctor to grant you permission to cut your Dick off. Get it? Good. People have suggested, including myself, other therapists. But they also don't do drive through surgical letters for crazy ass people that walk in their door. You don't tell a doctor what to do. They have to provide an educated diagnosis and a proper referral. So far, you've not proved anything to them other than you are just another impatient crazy person. I don't care how long you've been out walking around like a girl. You're not stable. And from your rhetoric, it certainly doesn't sound like you've had much psychological therapy whatsoever? Yes, you've had a single doctor that has written you your letter. There's a lot of lousy doctors out there that are not as ethical as they should be. And what you're having a problem with is the doctors that are properly trained, highly experienced and very ethical. Your other alternative might be to just DIY? Believe me... I actually thought about doing that to myself, many, many years ago. I figured I could rip off a couple of bottles of Novocain? Shoot the area with some diabetic syringes? And start cutting. But as a competent technician, I knew that really wasn't the proper way to go about it. Neither was damaging my pair of nuggets between a pair of bricks. So I went through many years of therapy. 14 to be precise before I ever requested by surgical letters. Both of my shrinks kept offering my letters to me. I told them I'd let them know when I actually felt ready. In 12 years since my therapy, I finally felt ready. And even then, since I hadn't seen Greg, regularly, for the previous six years I was with Dr. Martin Stein, Greg wanted to see me a couple of times again. BFD! What's another $190 when you spend thousands of dollars on electrolysis alone? So WTF with you Suzi? So to be quite honest with you... who the hell do you think you are? I don't tell my doctor had to take out my appendix. I don't tell my doctor to remove my left arm since my arthritis in my shoulder is agonizingly painful, chronically, daily. And even if I did request that, what do you think the answer would be? My recommendation to you... get your head screwed on straight girl and act like a man. I don't think that came out right? But I think you get the gist? Try Martha Harris, tell her that Remy recommended her to ya. And then, what are you going to do if she wants to see you more than once? Stop acting like a child! Grow up already! What are ya 15? I sure as hell hope not? Is all of your electrolysis complete? Have you gone through all of your speech therapy? Did you transition on-the-job and are still employed by the same employer? How do you interact with other people? Because right now, it seems that you are not acting on an adult level? So I personally would be hesitant to write you a letter for surgery recommendation. You're sabotaging yourself. You're becoming your own worst enemy. Stop acting like a crazy bitch FUCK and then get your FUCKING letter from Greg! $190 and then you're good to go! So stop FUCKING off! Mx. Remy Ann David www.crowmobile.com 202-239-7412 (answering machine)

  

  Remy D. replied:

  Hi there Suzi! So sorry you found Dr. Greg Lehne to be a bad experience for you. I started seeing Greg in early 1986. He was referred to me by the now late Dr. John Money. Greg shook my world. From time to time, he'd say something to me, it would get me really upset. I would brood over what he said for the entire week. I knew in my next appointment the following week, I was going to confront him about it. God dammit! Who did he think he was? And the following week, I would tell him you just said that to get me thinking about stuff didn't ya?? And then the rest of your therapy session goes on where ya now have some things to talk about. This is what they're doing. This is being a good shrink. There was never any sense of malice of any sort. So if you've seen him once already? Finish what you started. Tell him I said hi. I've been wanting to go back to see him as it's been since I got my letter from him over 14 years ago. But I too experienced perhaps a similar situation to yours? I live down here in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Greg's in Baltimore. So I started seeing this fine psychiatrist, who, like Greg was associated with Hopkins, Dr. Martin Stein was associated with George Washington University and Hospital. Hard to believe I was his first Tranny. I liked Marty. Even bumped into him a couple of times at some local computer shows. I was with Marty for six years. Let's put it this way, I wasn't in a rush for the surgery even though I could have afforded it 12 years earlier. Nevertheless, in 2000 I finally asked Marty, for my letter. The letter I got from him was all male pronouns!!!??? WTF! I told him I can't send a letter like this to Montréal and could he please ask his secretary to write one using female pronouns for me? His response was..." well to me... you're still a man!" Needless to say, at that point, I just upped and walked out. Then you have one of those, what do I do next anxiety attacks. Thankfully, some of us here, are a fairly tight group. I asked a friend of mine who she went to? She went to Dr. Elenor Criswell, in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. I too had to see Elenor more than once. And with what happened to me from Marty, I kind of rather needed those extra visits anyhow. But I dearly credit Greg. I loved that guy. He made a huge difference in my life. I've been to quite a few shrinks throughout my time. And these people pay a lot of money for their mail practice insurance. So I think sometimes it could have something to do with that? Remember, just because you're not crazy doesn't mean that they don't get plenty of crazies. I in fact know that they do. I've emceed for a couple of transgender thingies through the years and I've met these folks LOL. But I did know through case studies, girl, you gotta' go more than once. No I'm not a shrink nor an amateur one at that. However, as an audiovideo production engineer, I've covered some highly regarded medical conventions. And I heard about folks like yourself. Everybody wants drive-through. If you ask a doctor for a letter so you can cut off your Dick? Do ya think that doctor might just want to make absolutely sure they are making the right decision? So, quite frankly, I'm as concerned as they might be. I never found him pompous. And I also enjoyed smoking a joint with Dr. John Money, on the way back to the airport together, in a limousine, after we did the Dr. Sally Jessy Raphael show. Which was a prominent coast-to-coast syndicated TV talk show of the 1980 s. And Greg was his protégé. So you are seeing someone who pioneered this from way back in the 1970 s. And perhaps, they may have " picked up " something, not quite right, about you? You know that's what they are paid to do. And how does that old proverb go? Good things come to those who wait? I worked with shrinks and waited 14 years before I ever asked for any letters. Not sure though that Elinor hasn't retired? So, Martha Harris, in Springfield or Alexandria, Virginia, I forget? She's great! I think she's Dr. Martha Harris today. I knew her when. Mx. Remy Ann David www.crowmobile.com

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