The Story

The Eunuch Archive contributed to the latest version of the WPATH Standards of Care which included recommendations on care for eunuch identified individuals. Whilst there remain problems with the WPATH recommendations as a whole, the inclusion of eunuch with care recommendations is a major breakthrough. For me the problems revolve around the insistence on requiring formal psychiatric assessment before performing any kind of gender related surgery. One doesn’t require a psyche assessment for a boob job or penis enlargement. The requirement rather panders to the fragile sexualities of those with power and the ease with which they can deflect their own failings onto minority groups rather than any need by patients. I am not suggesting that one shouldn’t reflect deeply on what one wants to change about one’s body, but ultimately it is nobody else’s business what’s between one’s legs – unless you’d like to have sex!

The problem with the Eunuch Archive in this instance, however, isn’t WPATH (WPATH may now have a problem with its association with the Archive). The EA has a fiction archive where members can share stories, and the nature of these stories often involved involuntary castration (I and so many others fantasised about being castrated involuntarily – which is impossible really, since I and so many others actually craved it). The existence of these stories would normally have been enough to get right-wing news outlets excited for a short while until they found something else of interest, however, a great many of these stories involve minors. Of course, people do need a space to be able to work through their childhood issues, which is what is claimed that these stories are about, however the viewpoint isn’t clear (unless a story is written from the first person perspective you never really know who’s perspective on is seeing the story from) and that is precisely what GB News and seized upon: they see this as an archive of stories where men fantasise about castrating children – and that is the perspective they are pushing.

The trans community is already an easy target for the political right, especially since it is much harder to attack other historically popular minorities (eg Jewish, Muslim, Gay). And the right needs to have their “bad guys” who’s elimination would solve the world’s problems.

In the GB News section titled “Free Speach Nation”, they interview a couple of people (noticeably none of them eunuchs) where they quote WPATH’s text “eunich proferred as a genuine gender identity” in a way that I felt was mocking, but hey! Tone of voice isn’t quotable. They also state that they have found several “sinister revelations” in the connection between WPATH’s eunuch section and the Eunuch Archive.

In an interview with Genevieve Gluck (a feminist https://www.feministcurrent.com/author/genevieve-gluck/ she is very much against the trans community), she stated that there were approximately 10,000 stories in the Archive, with about 40% tagged with “minor”. She views them only as men fantasising about castrating boys, she will not ever see that these are men reliving and processing childhood trauma – that does not accord with her world view. Of course, I don’t know who the authors are or what their interests really are either – anonymity amongst a persecuted minority is essential for everybody’s safety. Apparently, the stories were used as a basis for medical research for DMS5 (Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders); DSM5 changed “gender identity disorder” in DMS4 to “gender identity”, reducing the stigma associated with transitioning or no longer identifying with the gender assigned at birth. their real problem is that via the archive that men who have an interest in the castration of children are influential in the DSM5 and that should therefore invalidate DSM5.

The Eunuch Archive anonymises its users so that they only reveal as much about themselves as they feel happy with revealing … not only names are anonymised, but the genders are too. The GB News interviewees cannot know whether a particular story was written by a man or a woman. It might be fair to guess that they are mostly written by men, but there women who have an interest in castration fantasies, and may chose a eunuch as their partner.

Genevieve also mentioned graphic castration videos on the Eunuch Archive, I may be worng, but I didn’t think the EA had videos – it didn’t even allow the uploading of photos (its technology is that old).

GB News did say that its findings “does not reflect WPATH as an organisation or its policies”, although I don’t know what that disclaimer was intended to achieve. Perhaps a “please don’t sue us”.

A woman, introduced as Helen, then started commenting on the Genevieve Gluck interview and produced these marvellous sound-bites:

• “male female essences which are souls” many different reasons – “unsavoury” reasons “adult men who fantasises about children transitioning”
• “every trans person is a huge problem in a sane world”
• “every person who denies the reality and immutable nature of binary sex is a very big problem for the rest of us”
• “the people who want to force the rest of us to go along with their evidence-free and in fact false believes whether they identity as trans for not”

I am wondering why what I have in my trousers, or what I want to wear, is an issue for her? Or why I would like others to freely chose who they would like to configure their bodies or appearance should bother her so much? Quite frankly, the only people who really have any right to know what’s in my underwear are my husband and my doctor.

I am afraid that it is probably too late for the Eunuch Archive to save its reputation if this story gets into more mainstream news.

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In Other News

As for the rest of my day, the horrible ill feeling of yesterday that completely zapped me has mostly passed… I now think I’m coming down with a cold.

I’ve also removed the silicon strip. Things are looking much, much better. There is no redness now. The silicon strip seemed to come off ok, it did leave some glue behind and it gripped into my hairs, but I could gently tease it off and most of the glue came off. What didn’t I have been able to remove result enough. I think I’ll take a razor to the other hairs around the stitches sometime over the next few days as I am less worried about the stitches now. Washing after the strip came off felt nice because everything was feeling so much less sore – it’s not until the soreness reduces that I realised how sore it was. It still feels lovely and sensitive.

I have also learned that I need to do daily erection exercises while I wait for my testosterone, otherwise I really increase the risk of erectile dysfunction. I don’t need to cum, I just need to get hard. The things you learn about your body during this process!