[bryony]

Well bryony,

I did link the UK GRA 2004 before:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=10443&pid=39352#pid39352
There are a few constitutional transgender rights in there that are unique in the world. Be proud. Browse around a little, the bits about foreign diagnosis and treatment are not hard to find.

I just read Prof. Cohen's oration yesterday, even though this document has been around for almost a year, and a TG friend alerted me about the partial transition option in 2007:
http://www.bezinningscentrum.nl/tg/geslachtoffers.htm
It's in Dutch, but the google translator can direct you to the hot spots. I can help with translation of the paragraphs you find most interesting. There were a couple of interviews on that occasion too:
http://www.continuum.nl/index.php?id=221
http://www.carlievantongeren.nl/journalistiek/sociaal/psychopraktijk-peggy-cohen/

Study the exact requirements of the GRA: only one psychologist and one specialist in GID need to sign, and I'm sure only the GID specialist needs to be Dutch for your purposes. So there really will not be a lot of travel costs.

Note that both the Endrine Society, and the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (formerly Harry Benjamin) have copied her treatment guidelines, and since she presides the DSM-V committee, these guidelines will be valid in large parts of the world in 2013. Just using the year for preparation may be the smartest thing to do.

Thanks for all that Isabelle! I shall study with great interest.

I ought to point out that it's very unlikely to happen for me, but I do think it should be available for others like me, with wives/partners, who are younger, and for whom it would be more worthwhile. I hate to think of such people being forced unnecessarily down the full transition route.

One thing on my original "list" that isn't available now, though, is FFS.

That's still something I feel strongly ought to be made available, particularly if the massively more expensive GRS option isn't used. I wouldn't even dream of trying to present as female without serious work on my face. But that's the main point. Look at Andrej Pejic. Would he be popular as a "gender bender" model if he didn't have a feminine face? I seriously doubt it. Yet, with his face, his wide shoulders and narrow hips are not noticed. Even his lack of breasts weren't enough to prevent his naked top half on the front cover of a magazine being banned for sale from Wal-Marts (I think) in the US. The argument being that he looked so much like a woman (even with a male chest) that they couldn't allow the sale of a magazine with a partially naked woman on the front!

B.