Belgian surgeons to perform Cuba's gender reassignment operations
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-7613.html5/12/2008
"Gender reassignment surgery has been effectively banned in Cuba since
1988, when the first such procedure caused an outcry.
Ms Castro, who is the daughter of President Raul Castro and niece of
former leader Fidel, was speaking ahead of a week-long anti-homophobia
festival to be celebrated in six provinces of Cuba and the capital,
Havana."
