Transsexual lottery winner regrets paying for gender reassignment

Comment #18

justxploring — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:44:10 GMT

HA!

The chuckles just keep on rolling in! My only remorse is the augmentation I had last year...it's painful and clumsy to drag this elephant trunk around all the time.

Rick G.

Elephant trunk? Wow, the other elephants must have peanuts envy.

Comment #17

dvdiva — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:46:55 GMT

Judging from the surgery Minie would have been a more appropriate post-surgery name.

Comment #16

guesser — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:54:34 GMT

Makes ya wonder what people did in the days BEFORE plastic surgery, face lifts, breast work, lipo, rhino,,,,,,,, malls, computers, cd players, the internet, electricity, the wheel, FIRE..... lol

Comment #15

bellyache — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:29:18 GMT

She could have added a ey to her name and made Mickey and there wouldn't be much of a change, but I am guessing that she really liked the name Melanie and was set on that.

Comment #14

golotto — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:14:09 GMT

I can't understand why Mick changed her name to Melanie. Don't get me wrong, Melanie is a very beautiful name, but I know two women named or at least nicknamed Mick and as well as several guys. With such a perfectly nice unisex style name form the start; just seems like she could have kept the original and avoided lots of name changing paperwork hassle.

good luck to everyone with tomorrow night's Powerball draw

Comment #13

emilyg — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:48:31 GMT

Comment #12

bellyache — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:33:19 GMT

Well hopefully she finds happiness. Maybe the spilt-up is the best thing in the long-run for all partys involved. Who knows.

Comment #11

Rick G — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:31:12 GMT

HA!

The chuckles just keep on rolling in! My only remorse is the augmentation I had last year...it's painful and clumsy to drag this elephant trunk around all the time.

Comment #10

Rip Snorter — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:24:07 GMT

A lot of the appeal for promiscuity and casual sex began to erode during the late '70s when Herpes Simplex, asymptomatic gohnawhatchallit, and other anti-biotic resistant strains of STD reared their heads.

Then in 1983, along came HIV to seal the coffin.

It took me several years to digest the impact of all that and tone down my behaviors appropriately, deciding that one particular monogamous imperfect woman was a better bet than numerous seemingly less imperfect ones who slept around.

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Comment #9

Rick G — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:20:34 GMT

Sometimes I think this place is a better comedy room than a lottery forum.

Thanks, Coin Toss! You always keep us laughing.

Comment #8

justxploring — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:51:46 GMT

GameGrl, I'm not disagreeing with you, and I really don't think we read the story all that differently. However, it did say that, as the money dwindled, the marriage began to dissolve. So it implied that money was a key factor. Who knows? The reason I'm posting again is that I couldn't help but chuckle at the buyer's remorse remark. I'm sure there are many people who spend tons of money on plastic surgery like facelifts, breast augmentation, liposuction and rhinoplasty. Some regret it and oth... [ More ]

Comment #7

TheGameGrl — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:34:31 GMT

Perhaps I read the article in a different light without interpreting any blame for the marital woes. The lottery winner made it very clear the regrets that any marital breakup curtails. I found the winner to have a decent attitude on the fact that family means alot, and that cant be bought or sold. The transgender change is what this person found necessary, and its a personal choice.

Its easy to look in retrospect with some level of remorse, this is just one person willing to share that pe... [ More ]

Comment #6

justxploring — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:30:06 GMT

Seriously, it must be very sad to grow up feeling you don't belong in your body. Life is complicated enough as Rip Snorter above mentioned. Winning the money gave this man the opportunity to pursue a dream, which is exactly why many of us play. It's interesting how the press can come up with all the reasons a life is ruined by winning money.

Comment #5

Coin Toss — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:15:25 GMT

Romantic Evening

After a long night of making love, the young guy

rolled over, and was

looking around when he noticed a framed picture of

another man on a desk

in the distance. Naturally, the guy began to worry.

Is this your husband? he inquired nervously.

No, silly, she replied, snuggling up to him.

Your boyfriend then? he asked. No, not at all,

she said, nibbling away at his ear.

Well, who is he then? demanded the bewildered guy.

Calmly, she replied, That's me... [ More ]

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:57:08 GMT

I don't know how all that works.

Sometimes I think my life's been a complicated place. And the bulk of the complications during the first four decades involved sex, money, or both. Luckily there were only two sexes in those days and no lotteries.

I read something of this sort and I find my life hasn't been complicated at all. Been purely smooth and ordinary in all ways.

J

Comment #3

justxploring — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:21:55 GMT

Nobody can blame the lottery for the breakup of this family. After all, in some states in our country his marriage would be illegal, right? I mean, after the operation wouldn't it be a same-sex marriage

Comment #2

Rip Snorter — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:53:29 GMT

Lots of imponderables in that story.

For some reason it reminds me of a limerick I learned, or maybe wrote back around 1969.

There was once a young man named Hollace

Used snakes and snails for his solace

The offspring had scales

And prehensile tails

And voted for Governor Wallace.

Don't know why this story reminds me of that, but it does.

J

Comment #1

justxploring — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:19:25 GMT

After the operation, Melanie returned to work, but problems at home led to the break-up of her 25-year marriage.

Ya think

Transsexual lottery winner regrets paying for gender reassignment

Lottery Post — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:06:01 GMT

A transsexual who came to prominence in 2003 for funding her sex-change operation from a UK National Lottery win has revealed to her local newspaper that she now regrets paying 21,000 (US$40,000) for the procedure.

Mick Parltrow, then a 52-year-old lorry driver, won 250,000 (US$480,000) and travelled to Thailand for the operation. Although she does not regret changing sex, Melanie feels the lottery win was no blessing.

After the operation, Melanie returned to work, but problems at home... [ More ]