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Paul Belz's avatar

Very, very clever and well written. I hope this can reach your grandchild. Good luck.

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Una-Jane Winfield's avatar

Thank you for this version of the old tale, with appropriate flourishes. I want to quibble about a few details, minor adjustments which a boring, old Transwidow would make, wouldn't she?

When a man takes estrogen (actually estradiol) it takes a few years (about 2-4 years) for it to work, depending on age. It takes longer the older he is as his metabolism has slowed down. The hair on his head grows thicker, including on the crown and it grows in where it was previously receeding on the temples. Depending on the individual the hair may grow in much more greasy (estrogen changes the activity of sebaceous glands in hair follicles). The beard gets thinner and thinner and may disappear, leaving him with a strangely "polished", shiny chin and no moustache. Hair on the chest, forearms and legs also largely disappears. He puts on fat as "moobs" (not "pert" boobs) and also around the hips and waist. He becomes a "fat woman". There are no changes to the bones or connective tissues, so the hips stay the same as before, and the spine stays long and strong. This man will never shrink with age (as normal old people do). This means that he will always stick out like a sore thumb in a Ladies toilet or changing room. The testes and scrotum atrophy and he cannot hold an erection. The details of castration, and slitting and inverting the penis to create a neovagina are too disgusting to discuss here, but can be found - there is even a CGI animation available somewhere on the internet! The mental changes are profound and adverse: this man is no longer alert and reacting to the emotions of family and friends. Instead he is in a world of drugged detachment from reality, with blood-shot eyes and - reserved for the family members who know who he REALLY is - the appalling bullying behaviour known as "gas-lighting", the tormenting behaviour of a truly insane man exacting "validation" of the impossible. Gas-lighting is "top-level narcissism". It is a "blow-torch" version of the "strangers narcissism" which you have correctly described. This man/Emperor has cut himself off from reality and will not make it back unless he makes a huge effort to understand himself, as Walt Heyer did and describes in www.sexchangeregret.com.

Thank you for entering the mind of the narcissist.

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