The story of New Zealand's first sex change

[stephaniec]

The story of New Zealand's first sex change

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/71706380/the-story-of-new-zealands-first-sex-change

Stuff/ADAM DUDDING  Last updated 05:00, September 6 20115

"Liz Roberts sets the plastic bag down on the coffee table with a glassy clatter.

"They're sterilised. It's all right."

She clinks about and pulls out a solid glass object, the size and rough shape of a large cigar – "They start out this size."

She fishes out half a dozen more of increasing length and girth, some solid, others more like test-tubes. "I haven't got the whole set. I threw some of them out."

There was a time, after Roberts' second round of sex-change surgery, during which surgeon Graham Liggins fashioned her first vagina, when she had to use these glass dilators night and day to keep things in shape as everything healed."

[Lady Smith]

Brilliant! - I shall be buying that book.

[big kim]

Sounds a good read. I'd no idea gender reassignment was so late in New Zealand as it was around in early 50s Britain.

[Lady Smith]

Sounds a good read. I'd no idea gender reassignment was so late in New Zealand as it was around in early 50s Britain.

It's still a primitive wasteland here in many ways as a lot of the medical profession in New Zealand either know very little or else are years out of date when it comes to TG issues.  Our one surgeon who used to do gender reassignment ops has now retired so we have nobody at the moment.

[LizK]

In 1982 NZ was a complete wilderness as far as anything Trans went. I was Psych nursing and remember completing a 3 hour Lecture about Transsexuals and how one should go about treating them. As in providing treatment. The entire Psychiatric knowledge could be bought down to a 3 hr lecture and that also included Transvestites (as called then) and once again very little actual knowledge but plenty of "theories".  This is the year I first came out and tried to get "treatment" which was at the very most primitive and I don't actually think the therapist had much of clue what she was doing...so primitive yeah...more like the stone ages