Whether Harry Benjamine Syndrome(HBS) is or is not a real medically defined condition, or whether or not it is linked in any way to an intersexed condition, it is besides the point of what HBS proponants are trying to accomplish.
The original concept of HBS, which appears flawed and irreversibly damaged, was to differentiate Type V and Type VI transsexuals from the transgender who hijacked the term and sanctioned its use by every other gender variant on the planet. I am not an HBS'r myself, and I have argued against their claims to intersexuality and specifically, that all HBS individuals are aware of their intersexuality prior to 4 years old. Personnally, I cant even remember that far back in my timeline, but I am sure I was not concerned with pink v's blue diapers or what mum and dad refered to me as.
As a post op women of transsexual history with 24 years since SRS and almost 30 years since I first attended the Charing Cross Gender Clinic, I prefer to think of my history as a "classic" Transsexual, i.e. one that conforms to Benjamine's original hypothosis on transsexuality. That does not make me an HBS'r, yet I am accused of such. I do believe that there are "true" transsexuals, I am not so sure it's an intersexed condition.
The concept behind HBS, and one that I support, is that a line is drawn between the notion that anyone, at any age, and with any background, can claim to be a transsexual, and that the numbers of such people doing so, are growing exponentially. Gender variants, from Crossdressers to Gender Queers are claiming transsexuality where none exists. They use the transgender and GLB platforms to assimilate and colonize classic transsexuality, replacing long recognized medical acceptance with gender theory and gender spectrums. They would seek to create laws suited only to their world view, adjust sociatal norms to a grudging acceptance of their ideas that a woman can have a penis, or that a man can give birth.
As a classic transsexual, these "new transsexuals" are no more than fakers to me. I know of no true transsexuals that are willing to retain their birth anatomy. HBS may be a made up term, but then so is transgender. Colonization of transsexuality by the gender spectrum advocates, demeans those transsexuals that have sought to simply resolve a birth defect and assimilate into their target gender. ost of us, HBS or not, have no wish to be a part of any group, not HBS or Transgender, and certainly not the GLB which seeks to affiliate anyone it can under its roof to build it's percieved numbers and approval.
In either regard, transgender dogma that states that all transsexuals are also transgender, is a form of colonization in the same way as when termites invade a house, the purpose is not to live as one with the house, but to devour the house. HBS advocates and classic transsexuals are not willing to allow that to happen.
HBS
The original concept of HBS, which appears flawed and irreversibly damaged, was to differentiate Type V and Type VI transsexuals from the transgender who hijacked the term and sanctioned its use by every other gender variant on the planet. I am not an HBS'r myself, and I have argued against their claims to intersexuality and specifically, that all HBS individuals are aware of their intersexuality prior to 4 years old. Personnally, I cant even remember that far back in my timeline, but I am sure I was not concerned with pink v's blue diapers or what mum and dad refered to me as.
As a post op women of transsexual history with 24 years since SRS and almost 30 years since I first attended the Charing Cross Gender Clinic, I prefer to think of my history as a "classic" Transsexual, i.e. one that conforms to Benjamine's original hypothosis on transsexuality. That does not make me an HBS'r, yet I am accused of such. I do believe that there are "true" transsexuals, I am not so sure it's an intersexed condition.
The concept behind HBS, and one that I support, is that a line is drawn between the notion that anyone, at any age, and with any background, can claim to be a transsexual, and that the numbers of such people doing so, are growing exponentially. Gender variants, from Crossdressers to Gender Queers are claiming transsexuality where none exists. They use the transgender and GLB platforms to assimilate and colonize classic transsexuality, replacing long recognized medical acceptance with gender theory and gender spectrums. They would seek to create laws suited only to their world view, adjust sociatal norms to a grudging acceptance of their ideas that a woman can have a penis, or that a man can give birth.
As a classic transsexual, these "new transsexuals" are no more than fakers to me. I know of no true transsexuals that are willing to retain their birth anatomy. HBS may be a made up term, but then so is transgender. Colonization of transsexuality by the gender spectrum advocates, demeans those transsexuals that have sought to simply resolve a birth defect and assimilate into their target gender. ost of us, HBS or not, have no wish to be a part of any group, not HBS or Transgender, and certainly not the GLB which seeks to affiliate anyone it can under its roof to build it's percieved numbers and approval.
In either regard, transgender dogma that states that all transsexuals are also transgender, is a form of colonization in the same way as when termites invade a house, the purpose is not to live as one with the house, but to devour the house. HBS advocates and classic transsexuals are not willing to allow that to happen.