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Title: Feminization Surgery Gives Manly Women the Feminine Touch
Post by: Shana A on March 15, 2012, 08:14:24 AM
Feminization Surgery Gives Manly Women the Feminine Touch

By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
March 15, 2012

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/facial-feminization-surgery-life-women-men/story?id=15918733#.T2HqxsxEYas (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/facial-feminization-surgery-life-women-men/story?id=15918733#.T2HqxsxEYas)

Sarah, now 50, came out as transgender but was still "being clocked" as male.

"You are walking through the mall and someone turns and says, 'Oh, my god, it's a man dressed as a woman,'" she said. "They figure it out."

But that rarely happens anymore. Thanks to facial feminization surgery in 2007, Sarah, not her real name, is living with the face she was believes she was supposed to be born with.