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Title: Sex-change in Israel: Gender trap
Post by: Natasha on June 22, 2012, 11:51:34 PM
Sex-change in Israel: Gender trap

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/sex-change-in-israel-gender-trap.premium-1.440407 (http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/sex-change-in-israel-gender-trap.premium-1.440407)
6/22/12
By Ofer Aderet   

In October 1985, a well-known plastic surgeon from the Italian Hospital in Haifa operated on a 21-year-old woman named Daniella. She had been born a boy, but lived life as a female in every sense and wanted to adjust her physiological gender to her internal gender identity. The operation went badly and Daniella was left without genitalia of either gender. A decade later, she won a malpractice suit against the physician.

Title: Re: Sex-change in Israel: Gender trap
Post by: ~RoadToTrista~ on June 23, 2012, 01:39:49 AM
Yikes....
Title: Re: Sex-change in Israel: Gender trap
Post by: cindianna_jones on June 23, 2012, 03:12:55 AM
Too many bad responses to this one. I think that I'll just bite my toungue and tie my fingers..... I'm such a bad girl tonight.