Woman disputes gender advice
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25459110-23289,00.htmlJulie-Anne Davies | May 11, 2009
A VICTORIAN woman who had sex-change treatment including having her breasts surgically removed is fighting to have the psychiatrist who, she claims, wrongly diagnosed her as a transsexual, censured by the state's medical board.
The 42-year-old woman, now a mother of three, alleges that when she was in her early 20s, Gertrude Kennedy, from Australia's only specialist gender dysphoria clinic at Monash Medical Centre, failed to recommend psychotherapy as a treatment option and instead referred her for a double mastectomy in the early 1990s. She was also given hormone treatment.
