Transitioning Together by Wenn B. Lawson & Beatrice M. Lawson

Author:Wenn B. Lawson & Beatrice M. Lawson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2017-02-04T05:00:00+00:00

Wenn aged six years, Ali aged five years and Ann aged four years

During those months of assessment with the Australian psychiatrist, I had to leave Australia to travel to Europe for work. Due to my dissatisfaction with the psychiatrist in Australia, I made contact with one from The Gender Clinic in London. It was 10 May 2014 and what a magic time that was. Although Beatrice wasn’t comfortable with coming, she took me to this guy’s London office and met me afterwards too. It was a wet and cool spring day, but the sun shone upon us long enough to enjoy a walk in Regent’s Park. Beatrice said she had a special feeling about this visit.

Beatrice: This visit felt incredibly right. It wasn’t like the one with the psychiatrist in Melbourne. I had a very strong sense of ‘peace’ and felt like it would be good and useful. I knew Wenn would be in good hands. I met the psychiatrist very briefly before I left Wenn with him. He had something about him that put me at ease in my mind. Wenn was incredibly anxious. The whole trip of getting there, parking the car and walking to the office was so anxiety driven. But once there, it just felt OK.

While Wenn was in the session with him I went for a walk in the park. There were so many different types of water birds and others; it was a soothing and peaceful walk. I just knew Wenn would be alright. When I got back to his office and had to meet Wenn I saw her face as she came out of the time with this man; it was a face of being less stressed and so much more at ease with herself. The psychiatrist had summed Wenn up in the very first extended session and now it was set. Wenn was living with gender dysphoria, the assessment outcome confirmed this for sure. He would write a report outlining his opinion, and in this report he said Wenn (Wendy) would be known as Wenn Barnabas Lawson (Wenn had already changed her name in April of that year) and only male pronouns would be used.

PART OF THE LETTER FROM THE UK PSYCHIATRIST

Ref: SL/dg/Lawson

22 May 2014

I met with Mr Lawson today, 10.05.14, at the GenderCare premises in Marylebone, following his self-referral via the gendercare.co.uk website.

On the basis of this assessment and the information available to me, I would tend to see Mr Lawson as fitting ICD10 criteria for F64.0 Female to Male Transsexualism. I consider his psychiatric history to be demonstrably in the past tense, in this context.

There is often a clinical concern regarding individuals on the autistic spectrum that their gender dysphoria might represent an ‘autistic interest’. This tends, on the whole, to be over-diagnosed. In my view, the chronology and trajectory described by Mr Lawson, particularly in terms of his early childhood rejection of stereotypically feminine pursuits and expectations, is more suggestive of gender dysphoria, suppressed for much of his life as an attempt to compromise within his long-standing relationship.

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