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Transsexualism and the Sex Change Operation
Do you know what happens after a transsexual person decides to have a sex change operation?
Reasons for sex change Each one of us feels unhappy about a certain part of the body. The muscles are not big enough, the butt is too full, the breasts are too small, etc. But what to do if you're unhappy with your whole body, you whole look and even your own gender? If a transsexual wants to change gender, the procedure involves taking over a completely different identity. It can be connected with homosexuality or not, but it is fore and foremost a desire to be...Transsexualism and the Sex Change Operation
Transgender Children
Launching of the clinic for treatment of potential transgender children faced with strong opposition of angry experts.
Transgender children and puberty Pediatric specialist Dr. Norman Spack from the Children’s Hospital in Boston has launched a clinic for transgender children – boys who feel like girls and girls who want to be boys. He offers these potential transgender children counseling and medication that delays the onset of puberty. The medication stops the natural flood of hormones that would make it difficult to have a sex change later in life, thus allowing patients more time to...Transgender Children
Meet Kim. She Was Born as Tim.
We present a young girl who started her sex change already at 12 years of age.
Meet Kim Sixteen year-old Kim Petras from Germany was born as a boy and named Tim. She started hormone therapy at 12 and is thus the youngest person to have been approved therapy with the purpose of a sex change. Kim said that she was very young when she felt like she was trapped in the wrong body. Psychiatrists are familiar with this phenomenon and have named it transsexualism or gender identity disorder (GID). Many people who suffer with similar feelings never seek...Meet Kim. She Was Born as Tim.
A 60 year-old man is turning into a woman
The father of five is looking for help because his body is turning into a woman’s
A 60 year-old bar singer is desperate: "I am a man and not a woman. I do not want to be a woman. I only want my life to go back to normal." His body started to change into a woman’s ten years ago. At first, he started losing hair and his beard, then his skin got softer and softer and he began growing breasts. Because he is not very tall and he is slender, he looks even more feminine. The doctors who examined him say that they have never seen...A 60 year-old man is turning into a woman
Health care in Canada is one step forward
In Ontario, they plan to cover the sex change operation procedure.
After 10 years of negotiations in Ontario, the proposal on covering health care costs for the sex change operation has been approved. The province of Ontario, Canada, will soon join the other provinces which, according to a health care insurance plan, already cover health care costs for the sex change operation, confirms the minister of health, George Smitherman.According to him, they still need to go through the details, however, Ontario will very soon, the first...Health care in Canada is one step forward
