Transgenders go for sex change for better life
Mamta Todi
Express News Service
First Published : 20 Sep 2010 02:47:38 AM IST
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/transgenders-go-for-sex-change-for-better-life/208321.htmlEver since two government hospitals started performing sex reassignment surgeries free of cost on people with 'gender dysphoria' about eight months ago, 87 such operations have been performed and over people 500 wait-listed. But that wouldn't give you a sense of the number of people opting for such surgeries in the city as quite a few of them have been putting themselves under the scalpel of plastic surgeons for sex change at private hospitals here for a long time.
While these surgeries are much safer than the traditional crude method of castration adopted by the transgenders community in India, doctors say it is not just the visible population of transgender persons who eke out a living through begging and commercial sex who opt for the make over.
