Fears rise over cut price sex change operation.
Published: 09/12/08
http://www.lgf.org.uk/news/885/495/Fears-rise-over-cut-price-sex-change-operation/UK Clinic offering £10,000 procedure for £1,500!
Birmingham's Sunday Mercury newspaper have reported that a Midland clinic is offering sex change operations for just £1,500.
Shangri-La & Surgeon Ltd, which is located in an industrial unit in Birmingham's Chinatown area, is advertising a number of cosmetic proceedures at rock bottom prices.
Approximately 350 men have sex change operations through the NHS in Britain each year. In order to go through the male to female transition process, individuals are asked to live in their new gender for two years, to ensure they can adjust psychologically to their new life.
The average cost for the procedure at one of the six private clinics that offer sex change surgery in the UK is £10,000, but can rise to £15,000.
Transsexual support groups are worried about the service that the Birmingham clinic is offerering, suggesting that if the reports are true; the Surgery is offering the lowest priced sex change operation anywhere in the world.
