Change my sex once, shame on me. Change my sex twice, shame on society for allowing me to change in the first place. This is the strange logic of Charles Kane.
Kane was born Sam Hashimi, a businessman who divorced his wife and spent over £100,000 to become busty interior designer Samantha Kane in 1987. In 2005, he dished out over £25,000 to return to manhood—skin-graft penis and all—reinventing himself this time as Charles Kane. Throughout his eighteen years as a woman, he felt like he was acting a role, not being himself, Kane told the Daily Mail.
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, and I’m in the unique position of having taken a very long trip to Venus before returning to Mars.
Today, the 50-year-old Kane lives with his 28-year-old fiancée, Victoria Emms. He’s working on a documentary called The Sex Change Delusion, which lays out the reasons why he thinks governments should outlaw sex-change operations:
Based on my own experiences, I believe sex-change operations should not be allowed. People who think they are a woman trapped inside a male body are, in my opinion, very deluded. I certainly was. I needed counseling, not a sex-change operation.
As Anna North at Jezebel reminds us, “when your statement starts with ‘based on my own experiences’ and ends with a generalization about all people, you are doing it wrong.”
Sam Hashimi underwent male to female reassignment surgery to become Samantha Kane and then underwent more surgery to “reverse” the mtf surgery. He is now looking to blame someone for “doing this to him” No one had a gun to his head, he voluntarily underwent this surgery. There are other people in this world who would dearly love to undergo this surgery, who is Charles Kane to try and stop other people undergoing this if they so choose? I would love to have MTF surgery, and if I ever have this surgery and then regret it afterwards then the only… Read more »
I think there is some generalization and some merit to Charles’ point. It is wrong to generalize all trans people wanting sex change as delusional. Genuine trans people do need the surgery to feel right about their own bodies. So belittling them, calling them delusional, is just plain incorrect. Charles’ situation is different. He was not trans. He was suffering from depression, made friends with trans people, joined trans groups, cross dressed to feel part of the trans community, and followed the steps which the trans community following all the way into sex change surgery. I call that giving into… Read more »
P.S. I spelt Cline Feltz wrongly! It’s Kline Feltz or Felters! Also I mentioned ‘Transvestites’ ? I meant there is a difference between Transvestism and Transsexuals and the NHS requirements have changed as they use to believe you had to have transvestite tendencies and dress as female in your youth? this wasn’t true in my case and they have changed their criteria, this is no longer a requirement. This is why I do agree with Charlie he should have been properly diagnosed.
I agree to a point with Charles the advice given to Men wanting a Sex Change has been flawed for many years! I too complained to their idea’s of what is a transsexual? I am a post-op transsexual having a private operation unlike Charles Kane I was not attracted to women, I was not a Father? I was born feminine and an inate desire to be female, I also believe there are many born with Cline Feltz Syndrome which means you have double XX Chromosomes and a Y chromosome which means you are genetically female? I am Happy as a… Read more »