Another Dying Transman-Michael (Heidi) Saum Age 35

Trans female Michael Saum's story was recently picked up by the watchful eye of the liberal pro trans media hoping to use her tragic story as another step toward California legalizing euthanasia.

While Trans/Liberal media were focused on the Right to Die issues with Saum's story, they inadvertently let some key issues slip out of their clutches.

A little background on Heidi Saum:

WOW her tumor was larger than it EVER was! What could have happened? 

Saum had battled cancer for 14 years and won, she went into remission! At this time in her life she decided it would be a good time to transition from lesbian to transman! Certainly no doctor in their right mind would give a former female cancer patient who suffered from glioblastoma, regular macro-doses of testosterone?


A little about the glioblastoma:

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 Glioblastoma tumours affect more men than women. Women during their reproductive years are suspected of fairing better due to the protective properties of estrogen. Glioblastoma tumour growth seems to also increase in men. While Saum clearly developed her tumour long before her transition, there is so much unbelievable overwhelming evidence that Saum's brain tumour came back and came back with a vengeance because she was given HIGH doses of the male hormones (testosterone)! Sex steroids, particularly males (testosterone) influence/increase these types of tumours! If I as mere medical pedestrian can determine how insane transition using cross sex hormones in any dose, let alone extreme doses as a course of treatment for Saum's mental issues, why didnt the mental/medical professionals????

Heidi Saum, soon to be another lesbian murdered by medically approved testosterone poisoning.

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Transgender Breast Cancer Risks-Truth from Peddled Fiction

Recently an article was published claiming that transgender males/females do not suffer anymore risks for breast cancer than the general population. Bear in mind:

• About 1 in 8 U.S. women (about 12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.
• In 2014, an estimated 232,670 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in women in the U.S., along with 62,570 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
• About 2,360 new cases of invasive breast cancer were expected to be diagnosed in men in 2014. A man’s lifetime risk of breast cancer is about 1 in 1,000.
• Breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. began decreasing in the year 2000, after increasing for the previous two decades. They dropped by 7% from 2002 to 2003 alone. One theory is that this decrease was partially due to the reduced use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) by women after the results of a large study called the Women’s Health Initiative were published in 2002. These results suggested a connection between HRT and increased breast cancer risk. 

Now from the article:

So according to the study, medical records of veterans were used to document breast cancer in trans males/females from 1998-2013. Although on it is ONLY since 2011 that the VA began documenting/evaluating/treating transgender vets.

The article then, in oxymoron fashion concludes:

So which is it? Hormones will not raise the risk of breast cancer in transgender patients OR breast cancer among the transgendered (male or female) is RARELY reported and when it is, the breast cancer is directly related to HRT???!!!!

Unfortunately and unprofessionally there remains no master data base where cancer and other  hormonally related transgender maladies/deaths are collected. And it isnt until cases like these make headlines that a hint of what is truly going on with the precarious health of many transgender patients is known.

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Another Fallen Transman: Karlyn Lotney-Health Woe's & Money Pleas

Like the once popular successful ex lesbian Pat Califia, another seemingly successful ex lesbian now trans female Kinky Karlyn Lotney is also in ill health and seeking donation funds from strangers online for personal financial support.

Lotney was a college graduate, had a book published, spoke and has written about lesbian and trans female sex in many different media (some well known) venues.

Then Lotney began her transition (testosterone injections) around 2001, by 2005 she suffered a cardiac event, a year later breast cancer.

She had a double mastectomy, beating breast cancer and continued with the ongoing process of transition where her mental and physical health continued downhill along with her previous successes.

Now on state assistance, Lotney recently found a doctor who would take her tax paid insurance so that she could receive surgical weight loss surgery for her debilitating obesity.

But like the instant gratification she sought transition for and its failure to deliver, instead mentally/medically compromising her life, the weight loss surgery has nearly killed her as well.

 

 The latest update was posted two weeks ago:

Sadly in our post queer theory, post Trans Trending lesbian nation, this story of the once successful lesbian ball breaking the glass ceiling who then transitions, only to flounder later on in health, finance and opportunity, is fast becoming the norm. Dare we ask "who's next?" Testosterone not only isnt living up to the long term expectation of trans females, it is killing their past lucrative careers and killing them as well.

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Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer and the Transgender Community

Like me, I'm sure most of you have recently heard or read about Angelina Jolie's NYT article. Jolie has revealed that due to an 87% chance risk of developing breast cancer, she opted to have her breast removed, plummeting her chances of breast cancer to about 5%. Jolie is a carrier of the BRCA1 gene heavily linked to breast cancer, this gene put Jolie at the 87% risk of breast cancer development.

Some breast cancer gene info:

About 5% to 10% of breast cancers are thought to be hereditary, caused by abnormal genes passed from parent to child.

Most inherited cases of breast cancer are associated with two abnormal genes: BRCA1 (BReast CAncer gene one) and BRCA2 (BReast CAncer gene two).

Abnormal BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes may account for up to 10% of all breast cancers, or 1 out of every 10 cases.

You are substantially more likely to have an abnormal breast cancer gene if:

• You have blood relatives (grandmothers, mother, sisters, aunts) on either your mother's or father's side of the family who had breast cancer diagnosed before age 50.
• There is both breast and ovarian cancer in your family, particularly in a single individual.
• There are other gland-related cancers in your family such as pancreatic, colon, and thyroid cancers.
• Women in your family have had cancer in both breasts.
• You are of Ashkenazi Jewish (Eastern European) heritage.
• You are African American and have been diagnosed with breast cancer at age 35 or younger.
• A man in your family has had breast cancer.

The average woman in the United States has about a 1 in 8, or a 12-13%, risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. Women who have an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene (or both) can have up to an 80% risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetimes. Breast cancers associated with an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene tend to develop in younger women and occur more often in both breasts than cancers in women without these abnormal genes.

Women with an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene also have an increased risk of developing ovarian, colon, pancreatic, and thyroid cancers, as well as melanoma.

ATM: The ATM gene helps repair damaged DNA. DNA carries genetic information in cells. Inheriting two abnormal copies of this gene causes the disease ataxia-telangiectasia, a rare disease that affects brain development. Inheriting one abnormal ATM gene has been linked to an increased rate of breast cancer in some families because the abnormal gene stops the cells from repairing damaged DNA.

p53 (also called the TP53 gene): The p53 gene provides instructions to the body for making a protein that stops tumor growth. Inheriting an abnormal p53 gene causes Li-Fraumeni syndrome, a disorder that causes people to develop soft tissue cancers at a young age. People with this rare syndrome have a higher-than-average-risk of breast cancer and several other cancers, including leukemia, brain tumors, and sarcomas (cancer of the bones or connective tissue).

CHEK2: The CHEK2 gene also provides instructions for making a protein that stops tumor growth. Li-Fraumeni syndrome also can be caused by an inherited abnormal CHEK2 gene. Even when an abnormal CHEK2 gene doesn't cause Li-Fraumeni syndrome, it can double breast cancer risk.

PTEN: The PTEN gene helps regulate cell growth. An abnormal PTEN gene causes Cowden syndrome, a rare disorder in which people have a higher risk of both benign (not cancer) and cancerous breast tumors, as well as growths in the digestive tract, thyroid, uterus, and ovaries.

CDH1: The CDH1 gene makes a protein that helps cells bind together to form tissue. An abnormal CDH1 gene causes a rare type of stomach cancer at an early age. Women with an abnormal CDH1 gene also have an increased risk of invasive lobular breast cancer.

Genetic testing

There are genetic tests available to determine if someone has an abnormal BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. A genetic counselor also may order testing for an abnormal ATM, p53, CHEK2, PTEN, or CDH1 gene if it's determined from your personal or family history that these tests are needed.

Despite a drop in breast cancer in very recent years, due to long term studies that proved hormones raised breast cancer/cancer rates in pre menopausal women using birth control and post menopausal women using HRT (hormone replacement therapy), breast cancer still remains the second leading cause of death in women.

Given all the facts above, I have yet to see where genetic testing is part of the medical process on females seeking transition BEFORE they are given high doses of cancer cause hormones. Testosterone is the quick, cheap and easy first step in transition. There are countless trans females with breasts intact on testosterone for YEARS because they cannot afford to have the surgery to remove them. How many of these women has the medical community tested for cancer genes??? The answer is NONE. The ONLY exception would be IF a female seeking transition insisted that that be part of her medical care. How many women seeking transition have asked to be tested for cancer genes? NONE! Females seeking transition would be too afraid to request cancer gene testing because they might not get their precious "T script." But it shouldnt be up to them, it should be up to the medical community (FIRST DO NO HARM) claiming care for their well being! Rather than collude with hetero patriarchy in normalizing lesbians (primarily) via transition!

Even in trans females who have had their breast removed pre testosterone (rare), once they begin using high doses of testosterone, cancer gene or no cancer gene, they still run the risk of breast cancer in the remaining breast tissue left. AND if they do have breast cancer genes, the drop in possible breast cancer risk to 5% from breast removal, immediately goes up with every injection from testosterone therapy, which is ongoing for the rest of the patient's life.

I have a sickening feeling the female Trans Trender community in 20 years time (or less) will resemble gay male communities in the 80's during the AIDS crisis. And the medical community responsible for the crisis will conveniently exempt itself by saying these women chose to transition.

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Transmen and Cancer

Below are a few links for females taking testosterone and the cancer risks/facts for doing so. If anyone has any others, or has transitioned and developed cancer as a result, please link them or share your story in a comment or email at thedirtfromdirt@yahoo.com and I'll add them in. I'm going to start keeping a link list relating to trans females and cancer.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236403.php

http://www.wjso.com/content/10/1/280

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/08/08/us-trans-mans-doctor-failed-to-tell-him-he-had-cancer/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9267063/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/t/how-hormones-can-affect-breast-cancer-risk/

http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/14/1/R32/

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/236403.php

http://ww5.komen.org/Table7Bloodandrogenlevelsandbreastcancerrisk.html

http://www.transfaithonline.org/intersections/cancer/breast/

http://transhealth.vch.ca/resources/library/tcpdocs/consumer/medical-cancer.pdf

http://www.shb-info.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/shbmengea.pdf

http://www.cancer-network.org/media/pdf/Trans_men_and_ovarian_cancer.pdf

http://www.glbthealth.org/documents/FactSheetRevised-TransgenderedIndividuals.pdf

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More "Who is Transitioning"

 
 With the ever growing numbers of female youths jumping aboard the trans trend bandwagon, I'm going to start regularly posting a general look at just who is succumbing to this trans trend by putting a face on the young girls/women who are doing so. All the boys girls here are on testosterone and most have had their breast butchered off, none from the info available, appear to have had hysterectomies. Which means the longer they continue injecting large doses of synthetic testosterone, the greater their chances of developing PCOS/Cancer,  a hormonal syndrome caused from hormonal changes, in the case of transmen deliberate hormonal changes due to injecting synthetic testosterone.

Some facts about PCOC:

Characterized by multiple abnormal ovarian cysts, PCOS symptoms include high levels of insulin which stimulate the ovaries to produce large amounts of the male hormone testosterone. 

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome causes disruptions to the normal menstrual cycle - irregular menstrual periods and the absence of ovulation cause women to produce estrogen, but not progesterone. Without progesterone, which causes the endometrium (the lining of the uterus) to shed each month as a menstrual period, the endometrium may grow too much and undergo atypical cell changes. This is a pre-cancerous condition called endometrial hyperplasia. If the thickened endometrium is not treated, over a long period of time (this time period is dramatically shortened in transmen) it can develop into endometrial cancer.

Studies have shown that women who have never been pregnant have up to three times the risk of developing endometrial cancer.

Another troubling statistic is that women who are 21 to 50 pounds overweight run 3 times the risk of endometrial cancer, while women who are more than 50 pounds overweight have a ten-fold higher risk. Obesity is often an underlying symptom of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
 
Any doctor playing fast and loose with their patients health by providing (trans) females synthetic testosterone while they have not had a full hysto should have their license revoked!

All photos can be found publicly on Youtube.

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