A medical transition

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A medical transition

http://ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Published 12/20/2007
Updated 12/24/2007

Transgender surgical options have long been looked at by the medical establishment with some derision. Many do not view any surgical procedures related to genital reassignment – or any other surgery or treatment related to transsexuality – to be "real medicine." It's treated as the lowest of surgeries, somewhere above subdermal implants and below penile extension.