Recent Entries

• Transvestic Fetishism: a new diagnosis?

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 14, 2015
  One of the girls in our discussion group cheerfully pointed out that she was not a 'Transsexual', but a "Transvestic Fetishist". I was so pleased to explain to her ( and relieve her real, concealed, concerns about her 'Disorder' ) that this further, and as usual totally wasteful, sub-division of hum...
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• Transsexualism, and its bed-fellows

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 10, 2015
  Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood, Dual Role Transvestitism and Transsexualism remain in the GID section of the World Health Organisation's International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems (ICD-10. However, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ...
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• The vanishing blog

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 9, 2015
  Just about finished a blog regarding a lady, on another site this week, criticising my use of the word 'Transgender', when I should have used the Psychiatric classification of my disease ( 'normal' people are Transgender apparently ) DSM-5 'Gender Dysphoria'. She further condescendingly explained th...
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• Complete Androgen Insensitivity Diversity

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 7, 2015
  This rare syndrome is unfortunately called CAIS. The 'S' is for 'Syndrome'. It is an insensitive term, as there is nothing wrong with these females in any other was than they cannot reproduce/bear children. These ladies exhibit all primary and secondary sexual characteristics. However, unbeknown to ...
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• Identity Confusion in my Gender Groups

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor December 3, 2015
  This blog takes into consideration a) that all textbooks and similar publications on any scientific or medical matter are generally 'out-of'date' at the point of printing b) that I am a Registered Medical Practitioner c) my Pychiatric training was at an under-graduate level d) that bias is introduce...
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• Genetic variations: additional sex chromosomes

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor November 14, 2015
  We are generaly and commonly born with 23 pairs of chromosomes, making  a complimentt of 46 in all. One's sex is determined by the X and Y chromosomes: men have XY and women XX. we are separated by the processes of differentiation and  of sex determination. The development of one's given s...
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• Males, Females and 'In-betweens': Gender Fluidity- the facts.

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor November 9, 2015
  The U.K.'s  Lord Justice Ormerod in the disgraceful Divorce Trial of April Ashley and her greatly less than 'Honourable' and later 'Lord' husband in the 1960's set back the legal acceptance of 'Trans' people for37 years until the Gender Recognition Act. His summary effectively stated that there...
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• Colour-blindness in Trans-women

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor October 12, 2015
  I am keen to hear from any Trans-women who satisfy the requirements, now or in the past, of the diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria ( International Classification of Diseases: F64.0 ) who have Colour Blindness (CB). So far, I have not had one confirmation of CB, yet the incidence of CB in the Northern Eur...
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• Boy meets Girl

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor September 8, 2015
  BBC2 commenced their Trans Comedy Series on monday evening, to great acclaim from the gerls, but not the press or me. It is my personal conviction that anything that raises public awareness of our 'plight' is beneficial to our increasing acceptance within the broader community. By this process we pr...
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• Revenge is best taken cold

  by Hannah Ceridwen Eluned Cavendish-Grosvenor September 2, 2015
  Hannah has just been asked to sit on a Consultant Appointments Committee as Royal College representative. It is at her old teaching hospital, which has over 30 eye consultants. By chance, it is for the Oculoplastic department. Hannah is an Emeritus Professor of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery in Sw...