Followup interview to Gender Committee: Patient doing well, not depressed. Lives a rather socially empty life but is content with it. Is on welfare but is strangely unworried despite inability to get work - welfare expires in 3 months. Has many excuses why she can't work - tattoos on arms, lack of skills, age, etc. Indeed one has a sense that Barbara is quite content to be looked after indefinitely by the welfare system. For all that, however, one has to allow that she seems reasonably happy and adapted to circumstances.
John Hampson, MD