The Times of India
Malathy Iyer & Pratibha Masand
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-13/india/31689540_1_surgery-plastic-surgeon-genderIncidentally, more men than women suffer from GID. The February 2012 edition of International Journal of Urology said GID prevalence varied depending on the country. "For example, in the Netherlands, the calculated prevalence of adult GID was one in 11,900 men and one in 30,400 women between 1975 and 1992. In Germany, between 1981 and 1990, the prevalence of MtF (male to female) and FtM (female to male) was estimated to be 1:42,000 and 1:104,000, respectively," said the report.
Accordingly, there are more men than women who undergo the surgery. Also, plastic surgeon Ajay Hariyani, who is attached to the civic-run Bhagwati Hospital in Borivli, says the male-to-female surgery is easier to do. "Creating a vagina is easier than making a penis. Breast augmentation can be done and the hair (facial) can be removed with laser," he says.
Gender reassignment surgery, as the sex-change operations are known as in medical circles, is far from a new branch but there is a new dynamism about it now. Urologist Pandey says, "Plastic surgeons kept gender reassignment surgery alive for over two decades in India, but now there are new techniques in urology that will bring about a paradigm shift.''
