Please, mister, can I have my balls back? (Sorry, couldn't resist that)

I said in an earlier post that serious questions should asked about transsexuality, including is it really good for the person concerned? (Just for the record if your a transsexual and you want to go ahead, with your own money by the way, then it's your body but I think you're very likely making a mistake) Anyway one person has said you operated too quick and I was mentally unbalanced when I agreed to it, but the British General Medical Council has not upheld the complaint...

From Sex-change patient complains to GMC

A businessman who once led a takeover bid for Sheffield United football club has reported the UK's best-known expert on transsexualism to the General Medical Council, claiming he should never have been given a sex change, the Guardian has learned.
Charles Kane, formerly known as Sam Hashimi, claims that consultant psychiatrist Russell Reid, a specialist in gender identity disorder (GID), referred him for gender reassignment surgery when he had only lived as a woman for a month - in breach of international standards of care.

Mr Kane, who has reverted to living as a man after briefly being known as Samantha, said: "It was certainly not the right course of action for me. It was intolerable. I had to go through several operations to try to repair the damage that had been done."

He first saw Dr Reid in 1997 after "a severe mental breakdown" caused by the break-up of his marriage. He claims that Dr Reid referred him for surgery after he had lived as a woman for only 30 days, and a sex change was performed just four months later.

The details of his complaint emerged after the GMC decided there was "insufficient cogent and credible prima facie evidence" to suspend Dr Reid from the medical register or impose restrictions on his practice at the first stage of its investigation.

The case was initiated by three other senior consultant psychiatrists, Donald Montgomery, Richard Green and James Barratt, who work at the NHS Charing Cross gender identity clinic in west London. They submitted the cases of 12 of Dr Reid's patients, including Mr Kane, to the GMC for scrutiny, claiming some regretted changing sex.

But Dr Reid, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' gender identity working party, has received support from other experts in the field and more than 150 patients.

The Medical Defence Union, which is representing Dr Reid, said he was unable to comment on specific cases because of his duty of confidentiality and because of the inquiry.

A spokeswoman for the Royal College of Psychiatrists said the matter seemed to be "a dispute between expert colleagues".

It occurs to me that no-one talks about disputes among experts when talking about hysterectomies, as feminists like Germane Greer do. In fact in her case she thinks she know better that the experts. Allegedly wrongly removed wombs count. Allegedly wrongly removed penises do not. You may suspect I'm thinking this is a case where the PC idea of men being women inside is upheld, and you'd be right.