True identity: Learning about sex reassignment surgery
Published August 01, 2012
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/01/true-identity-learning-about-sex-reassignment-surgery/ Dr. Manny Alvarez, senior managing health editor of
FoxNews.com, sat down with Dr. Sherman Leis, founder of the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, to learn more about people living with gender identity disorder. "Gender identity disorder is also transsexualism," Leis told Alvarez. "It's basically when the brain is one gender and the body is that of the opposite."
Leis cleared up what he said was a common misconception, by noting that transsexualism has nothing to do with being gay or lesbian, as a gay person does not want to necessarily change their gender. Bono has acknowledged he first thought he was a lesbian before realizing he was transgender.
Leis said there are anatomic studies to prove this –- like the one done by University of Amsterdam, which found in the average male, the brain's bed nucleus is one size and shape, but in a transsexual male, the bed nucleus is the same size as that of a female.
