linkSo Bowers moved to Trinidad, and her popularity has soared since.
The reason, she said, is her advanced surgical techniques - and the fact that people feel they can better relate to a transgender surgeon.
Bowers still frequents Seattle to visit her three children and her spouse, whom she married when she was still physically male (the couple is still legally married). But Trinidad, near the New Mexico border in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, is now her base.
By the time Biber died of pneumonia in January 2006, Bowers was already a success in the town where her mentor's business wasn't expected to survive his retirement.
