Programme
In the context of Dorley Hall, the programme refers primarily to two related concepts:
- the original system of forced feminisation for trafficking purposes established at Dorley Hall; and
- the present-day system of forced feminisation based in Dorley Hall, with the aim of rehabilitating violent (or potentially violent) men.
The original programme
In the original programme, ostensibly "criminal" men were abducted and subjected to forced biomedical transition to make their bodies female, along with psychological torment intended to leave them as broken human beings. Subjects were intended to retain their male gender identity, while their bodies were feminised against their will, leaving them in a state of constant and debilitating gender dysphoria. Once the programme was completed, these "Dorley girls" were trafficked to wealthy buyers for menial and sexual servitude before, ultimately, being disposed of. During this period, Dorley Hall was sometimes known as "The Toy Factory" or "The Fanny Farm."[ch. 28]
The coup
The original programme came to an end as the result of a financial coup staged by Elle Lambert, the granddaughter of the Hall's owners, with the assistance of Beatrice Quinn, a Dorley girl who had successfully escaped the Hall. As a result of this coup, Grandmother's control over Dorley Hall was eradicated, and her presence reduced to living in a single first-floor flat in the Hall for the remaining two years of its lease.[ch. 15] Following Grandmother's ouster, and backed with funding from Elle, Beatrice set out to plan the future of the reformed Dorley programme. She met with Teri and Ashley, who had taken her in when she fled Dorley, and with Maria, Sarah, Barbara, Natalie, and Trish, women liberated from Dorley Hall, to enlist their aid in launching the new programme. Ashley, Barbara, Maria, Sarah, and Trish agreed to stay on to help Beatrice establish the new Dorley programme, while Natalie accepted Teri's offer of hospitality and left with her.
The modern programme
The genesis of the current programme derived from an unexpected result of the original Dorley programme under Grandmother's jurisdiction. Most of the original "Dorley girls" retained their male gender identity, thus entering into a constant psychological crisis which left them broken and vulnerable. However, some subjects responded to the programme by making a psychological shift to embrace the womanhood that was intended to torment them and, in so doing, transformed their own sense of gender and identity. The current programme, as overseen by Beatrice—known colloquially at Dorley Hall as "Aunt Bea"—is a systematized approach to inducing this transformation as a complete and lasting psychological state change, through either gradual process or crisis and resolution.
In the current programme, "boys" (young men from 18 to 25 years old[ch. 25]) with specific psychological and behavioral profiles are rendered unconscious and abducted, as a group of six to nine, generally at the beginning of the academic year at the Royal College of Saint Almsworth. They are relocated to the basement of Dorley Hall (technically the second basement), which has been retrofitted to serve as a combination of dormitory and prison. While unconscious, each boy is given a goserelin implant to reduce their testosterone levels. The boys are initially isolated from one another and oriented to the rules of the programme, along with the penalties for violating the rules, ranging from solitary confinement to being washed out. Once oriented, they are brought into social contact with the other boys in the programme. This initial process of induction into the programme is known as intake.
Over the next three years, each intake group is forcibly transitioned from male to female, both biomedically and psychologically. This process includes, but is not limited to:
- educational (and re-educational) efforts
- psychological guidance and/or manipulation
- emotional support
- hormone replacement therapy
- orchiectomy
- facial feminization surgery
- other gender-affirming procedures, including vaginoplasty, tracheal shaves, and breast augmentation.
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