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"When I woke up after the operation, I just couldn't believe it because I felt like I'd been conned actually. I felt like I'd been ripped off. I thought I was going in for a soul transplant. I didn't feel transformed. I felt mutilated. The core of who I was, I felt, had been cut out. That's what it felt like."
"I think it warrants a full investigation at a governmental level. Any thorough history taken by a competent psychiatrist or even non-specialist, would reveal what was apparent to me within three or four sessions - he had never had any role-modelling. His father was a very violent man, and the whole reason he attempted to take refuge in womanhood was simply that he couldn't learn from his father how to be anything he'd want to be."
"What this all boiled down to was that I didn't like my father and I look a lot like him physically. My fear was changing into him. It was killing him off, really. Killing myself off, killing him off. Nobody stopped it."
Unfortunately, the ABC story of Alan Finchin is missing.
"2003 - Australian Story - Alan FinchIn 2003, ABC Australian Story described the story of Alan Finch, a detransitioner. This story was removed from the ABC website sometime in 2009"
(when you click out from substack, it adds it own tracking, confusing the link url. Recommend, if you find a webarchive link, also save it in [archive dot is], and link/share to that instead)
Do you have this link you can post in the comments? (or edit into your article).
Wow.
That is truly an epic tale from Alan Finch.
I wonder where he is, now?
Did he have "partial reconstruction"?
"When I woke up after the operation, I just couldn't believe it because I felt like I'd been conned actually. I felt like I'd been ripped off. I thought I was going in for a soul transplant. I didn't feel transformed. I felt mutilated. The core of who I was, I felt, had been cut out. That's what it felt like."
"I think it warrants a full investigation at a governmental level. Any thorough history taken by a competent psychiatrist or even non-specialist, would reveal what was apparent to me within three or four sessions - he had never had any role-modelling. His father was a very violent man, and the whole reason he attempted to take refuge in womanhood was simply that he couldn't learn from his father how to be anything he'd want to be."
"What this all boiled down to was that I didn't like my father and I look a lot like him physically. My fear was changing into him. It was killing him off, really. Killing myself off, killing him off. Nobody stopped it."
Possible updates here.
He sued Monash, settled out of court, and paid for a phalloplasty.
He didn't like it, so had it removed, and got surgery to turn his intestine into a canal.
He appears to have gone silent.
https://archive.is/mFzZ0
The ABC; back when it reported facts with neutrality.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-08-19/court-rules-in-favour-of-transsexuals-legal-action/2084512
AND... here is an... 'interesting' link about Australians.
Pretty sure all the female names belong to males.
https://zagria.blogspot.com/2016/03/40-trans-persons-in-australia-who.html
Hi, Ladies.
Unfortunately, the ABC story of Alan Finchin is missing.
"2003 - Australian Story - Alan FinchIn 2003, ABC Australian Story described the story of Alan Finch, a detransitioner. This story was removed from the ABC website sometime in 2009"
(when you click out from substack, it adds it own tracking, confusing the link url. Recommend, if you find a webarchive link, also save it in [archive dot is], and link/share to that instead)
Do you have this link you can post in the comments? (or edit into your article).
Thanks!
Hi Iris
The link should go to an archive page. ABC removed the content in 2009.
I'll check later when I'm in front of the laptop 😎
Ok; I've located the problem.
I was reading your article IN my email; when I click the link, it redirects from substack, and adds its own tracking (see everything after the ?).
I can't upload a pic, but this link appears in the search bar of wayback machine, saying it has not archived the link.
http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2003/s937472.htm?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
I removed the ? and everything after, and searched for the article with the URL, but could not find it.
When I click the link HERE - in substack, not in my email - it takes me to the archived article. Yay!
Here is the link to it anyway.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080324180407/http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2003/s937472.htm