Plus a lot of this comes from custom and practice when lesbian relationships weren't officially recognised. Also in the UK the medical profession make you jump through a lot of stupid hoops to prove to them you're serious and worth wasting money on.

Plus there's a whole heap of expectations from psychologists that the transgendered should conform to stereotypical feminine behaviours, one of which must involve a desire to play happy families with men. Being sexually orientated towards women definitely counts against you and so being married or wanting to continue a relationship with a woman would be the end of your ambitions to change gender.

And then bigot wimminists use conforming to those very stereotypes against us. Gah, ya can't win !!

Again, I'm glad I didn't have to put up with any of that crap, but those who did remain angry even decades later. The psychiatrist who started the gender re-assignment clinic was such a monster that, 25 years after his death, his resting place apparently still smells of wee from those who've pissed on his grave.

keep to the Fen Causeway