Has anyone here undergone or considered transgender surgeries in India?

[Meera0810]

I have recently been hearing about transgender men and women travelling to India for their surgeries. Has anyone here undergone any transgender-related surgery in India or researched into it?

I am from India, and live in India. It will be so much cheaper to just have my surgery here in India, but I don't have any feedback for any doctor, and there aren't that many transgender women here that are post-op. At least, they are not out. I don't know whom I can reach out to.

So, if anybody here has any information for me related to any transgender surgeries, I will be very glad and thankful.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3576420/Sex-change-surgery-Indias-new-line-budget-medical-tourism.html

[Laura_7]

I have heard from one person being trained by a us surgeon but you may ask the surgeon in india.
A top us surgeon said it needs a few hundred srs surgeries to be really good.
So you might ask them, and ask for pictures of results, and most important talk to people being clients there.
I personally would consider thailand or other well known places.

For referrals you might ask transgender organizations in your place... there should also be boards etc. But ... do your due diligence.

Here would be enought to start looking deeper inside :

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sex-change-surgery-indias-line-budget-medical-tourism-042541857.html

Imo all at your own risk, and do your due dilligence, and don't belive everything ... ask a few clients.


You might consider asking people specializing in medical travel in thailand, someone with a good reputation.
They can advise on advantages and disadvantages of surgeons in thailand.
Surgery with PAI for example is from 9k usd in a good hospital. They may advise on other surgeons who are even less and advantages and disadvantages of each.

Brassard in Canada is from 20k can and is full service including a recovery facility for example.


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[AnonyMs]

You can get very cheap in Thailand, down around US$2K I believe, but these are not surgeons foreigners go to (not Western ones anyway). The quality of their work is not good.

[JenniferLopezgomez]

I have in person met a trans lady who got GRS at a clinic in India. I seem to remember the price as being around US $ 9000 or so and this was a super job but I may not be remembering the price precisely correctly. She showed me privately, nude, her new vagina. As far as I know she hasn't had any complications.

I will not for privacy reasons name who this person is, however if anyone has interest I can likely get the name of the doctor in India. xx

[Meera0810]

I have in person met a trans lady who got GRS at a clinic in India. I seem to remember the price as being around US $ 9000 or so and this was a super job but I may not be remembering the price precisely correctly. She showed me privately, nude, her new vagina. As far as I know she hasn't had any complications.

I will not for privacy reasons name who this person is, however if anyone has interest I can likely get the name of the doctor in India. xx

That's amazing! <3 Thank you! Can you please get the name of the doctor for me, and ask for a feedback on the doc? Appreciate your help.

[AnonyMs]

I just came across these

Sex-change surgery: India's new line in budget medical tourism
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1098218/sex-change-surgery-indias-new-line-in-budget-medical-tourism/

India challenging Thailand as a first-choice destination for people seeking gender reassingment surgery.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/print/766492/

[Glennard]

I'm into medical tourism. I quote the work. India has some good surgeons. Sorry I can't remember the names. But Thailand? The Thai coup hit tourism hard. Medical tourism got.. "hammered." All the big name hospitals that will come up on a Google search are on the Thai Stock Market. And the calls for return on investment have been unrelenting. Since prices .. general medical.. surgeries..  can't be raised on the local market the foreigners are getting hammered. Many hospitals even installed western administrators to guide the new billing.

Many.. not all but many of the SRS / FFS clinics saw what was going on with hospital billing and figured "if they can get away with it... We can also."  $9000 "should" get you a penile inversion.. all inclusive. That's surgery, O.R. charges, all personnel, hospitalization and nursing with a top notch surgeon. Sigmoid colon is $17,500 at one clinic and $11,500 at another. Excellent surgeons. All inclusive. Never have to go to your mail box to see another bill for something your insurance didn't cover.

SRS in India.. I would feel comfortable with SRS in India with the surgeons I have recently read about. FFS? I'm unable to say. However. A flight from Calcutta to Bangkok is $90. Air Asia. Hotels are $30. This is the rainy season and $40 gets you "Oriental opulence." $10 down in the backpacker ghetto. Kaho San RD (sp?) That's not where ya wanna be the 1st week out of surgery. Great place to party but it's a long commute depending on which clinic??? Hope I have helped..

[AnonyMs]

I'm into medical tourism. I quote the work.

I'm curious about this. I can't image why anyone would not book directly with a well known surgeon and do it all themselves. I believe most, of not all, of the people on this forums and others I read do exactly that. Any yet there must be people who do it the other way or there wouldn't be any business there, and there clearly is.

Perhaps outside of trans surgery its not such an "obvious" decision, but I've never really looked.

So who are these people, why do they do it, are they seeing the same surgeons, and what proportion of people use these services?