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This Man Received 167 Sex-Change Surgeries. He Lives in a World of Regret.

Walt Heyer / January 12, 2018 /

Blair Logsdon's 167 surgeries cost him $220,000 and left him, in his words, "disfigured." (Photo: iStock Photos)
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Walt Heyer

Walt Heyer is an author and public speaker. Through his website, SexChangeRegret.com, and his blog, WaltHeyer.com, Heyer raises public awareness about those who regret gender change and the tragic consequences suffered as a result.

Recently I interviewed a person whose experience with gender-change surgeries was so extreme, it gained him entry in the Guinness World Records book for the most gender-reassignment surgeries for an individual person.

Blair Logsdon’s story is a cautionary tale for anyone today who is considering the use of cross-gender hormones and gender-change surgery to feel better about themselves.

Logsdon underwent 167 surgeries from 1987 to 2005 in his quest to resolve gender dysphoria with surgery. On a cold, snowy December morning in a Maryland coffee shop, he shared with me his story.

In 1987, at the age of 26, he underwent the first of many cosmetic surgeries to change his gender/sex appearance from male to trans-female. Within a few months, he said he deeply regretted becoming a trans-woman.

For the next five years, he struggled in his life as a woman before undergoing a genital surgical change to restore his original male self.

But peace with his gender eluded him.

With gender dysphoria still present and feeling unsettled, Logsdon underwent yet another gender change and returned to self-identifying as trans-female.

Doctors, apparently with total and reckless disregard for Logsdon’s emotional, psychological, and sexual well-being, ignored his obvious distress about previous cosmetic surgeries and indulged his requests for more.

Logsdon said he continued to have regrets about the feminizing surgeries, even as he strongly felt the need for more, caught in a cycle of hope followed by disappointment.

By 2005, seven cosmetic surgeons had performed 167 gender-affirming surgeries on his body, filling their bank accounts to the tune of more than $220,000 and leaving him, in his words, “disfigured.”

Logsdon says he regrets all 167 surgeries. No longer turning to the surgeons to discover his “true self,” he has found his true male self in following Jesus Christ.

>>> For more on how to understand transgender issues, check out Ryan Anderson’s new book “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment“

I do not blame Logsdon one bit in his case. The doctors and surgeons failed him in their responsibility to “first, do no harm”—as the Hippocratic Oath says—and wrongfully profited from the 167 disfiguring surgeries. Yet, they will not be held accountable or responsible for gross medical misconduct or malpractice against this good man.

At some point, these surgeons should have refused requests for more surgery and protected Logsdon from harming himself further. Instead, they chose to take advantage of his emotionally, psychological, or sexually unhealthy and unstable psyche.

Transgender People Could Benefit From Hearing the Truth

As a society we, too, fail transgender people by withholding the truth from them in the belief that telling the truth is somehow offensive and hateful. No—following the evidence is not hate speech, it is the foundation of the scientific research.

Several core truths have been relegated to the category of hate speech. For example:

There is no objective evidence to show that transgender people even exist, beyond the person’s own feelings and gender-dysphoric imagination.
Strong persistent feelings of being the opposite sex are not based in biology (“born this way”), but stem from emotional, psychological, or sexual factors.
Ignoring the protocols of effective psychological diagnosis harms trans-people because it guarantees they will not get effective treatment for coexisting disorders.

The Truth: Psychotherapy Is Important

For the last 50 years, the transgender ideology has grown progressively more deadly and destructive as it takes lives via suicide, destroys marriages, rips family relationships apart (including my own), and now expects the whole of society to reject the physical truth about sex and gender in public places and in social interactions, under the threat of ostracization and legal prosecution.

Transgender people are provided only one remedy: to wholeheartedly embrace an alternative gender/sex ideology that attempts to redefine their gender/sex and promises healing.

When the cross-gender hormonal and surgical protocols and lifestyle changes fail to bring relief to those experiencing gender dysphoria, as Logsdon found, often what remains is depression, despair, and regret, leading some to attempt suicide.

Doctors should focus on uncovering the parallel disorders that often lie at the root of the trans-person’s distorted self-identity. These often include alcohol abuse, drug usage, chronic depression, and personality disorders.

Uncovering these disorders results from engaging in effective psychotherapy, not surgery.

Providing psychotherapy first in the treatment of gender dysphoria could be a key factor in reversing the staggering 41 percent rate of suicide attempts among transgender individuals.

It could also reduce the number of people who seek out self-mutilation in an attempt to find inner peace, and thus prevent these people from digging deep wells of regret.

I’m sure I will catch some heat for publicly sharing the truth here. But saving one life is worth the heat.

If you’ve seen the 1992 film “A Few Good Men,” you’ll remember the pivotal courtroom scene where Col. Nathan Jessup (played by Jack Nicholson) shouts at the cross-examination lawyer (played by Tom Cruise) the now-famous line, “You can’t handle the truth!”

The same can be said today to those who declare that the only treatment for gender dysphoria is to affirm it, to give patients cross-gender hormones, and to perform gender-change surgeries: “You can’t handle the truth!”

phenry

Very,very sad.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

What is most disturbing is the push for the lies of the LGBTQ groups. Their claim that people can be what every sex they want to be or some of each and it can change weekly in a healthy human mind. They threaten anyone who decided that he wishes to return to his biological sex. They do this by pretending that "gender" is important, but biological sex is a figment of the imagination and that the sex you are "assigned to" at birth has nothing to do with the real you.

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

I watched a transgender transformation take place.
It wasn't pretty, and he regrets having it done, due to the medical problems it caused.
Can you imagine a 6'2" Homer Simpson shape becoming a woman?

4430 Loc: Little Egypt ** Southern Illinory

Well these people are sick as well as the very ones that go along with it !

It should never never be allowed no matter what !

Babsan

Very sad.This is what Obama's LGBTQ sickos push to young people who do not have a clue

bdamage Loc: My Bunker

Another reason for pushing the ridiculous "transgender" issue.
Murder-death-kill in the womb is on the decline.
"They" need to make up their lost revenue.
The answer......hormone "therapy".

Planned Transgenderhood
January 5, 2018

Abortion giant Planned Parenthood released its annual report over the New Year’s holiday weekend posting record-setting income numbers for its fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017.

Again, the abortionist reported performing over 320,000 abortions this year, accounting for approximately 1/3 of the abortions performed in the United States. However, National Review’s Alexandra DeSanctis points out “one glimmer of positive news” is the number of abortions performed by Planned Parenthood decreased from previous year, a result of the overall abortion rate continuing to drop across the country.

With fewer women seeking abortion, Planned Parenthood is apparently seeking to expand its business model. However, this does not mean actually providing more healthcare services for women such as mammograms or prenatal care. Instead, this year’s report highlights the organization’s new focus on providing transgender hormone therapy.
Full story:
http://2ndvote.com/planned-transgenderhood/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=94489431-fd4d-430a-881f-6563678fc0a6

Betta

When I was in nursing school and during psych rotation one of the first things we were taught is to not feed into a patient's psychosis. If they say there are birds flying around the room we were to gently reorient them to reality with truth telling them there were no birds flying around the room. I guess now we should have told them how pretty and what kind of birds they were.

Big Kahuna

Kim Kardashian changes her clothes and butt implants more often in 1 episode than this guy had surgeries in his entire lifetime.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

You might find Heyers' Sex Change Regret blog worth looking at. Also Heyer has written a couple of good books on the subject, and as a man who thought he was a woman, had the surgery and then regretted it and had surgery to change back to a man. Unfortunately, as is the norm, the surgery makes you look like the other sex but does not give you fully functioning genitalia.

Mike Easterday

Medical madmen filling bank accounts , instead of actually caring for patients.

bilordinary Loc: SW Washington

Hippocritic oath!

Carol Kelly