A Message from My Brain (to the Auckland Medical School) - This is the brain of a male-female transgender person. I believe that the establishing of a sense of gender identity consistent with the physical is prime in a childs socialisation. I cant speak for other TGs, but my awareness (around age 4) of the disjunction between my clear physical identity as a male and a mental conviction that I shouldve been born female caused me significant misery throughout my life. My transition at 52 at least brought a kind of release from the fantasising, agonising, and guilt. Certainly, no prenatal intervention, or anything else, was possible in 1939, but it would be comforting to know that my brain, at some point, might contribute to research in the area. Im happy to accept that the medical school will use my brain as is appropriate to its purposes.