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Title: Transgender in China: Secrets and surgery
Post by: stephaniec on November 09, 2015, 01:54:31 AM
Transgender in China: Secrets and surgery

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/Transgender-in-China-Secrets-and-surgery/articleshow/49720496.cms

Times of India/AFP | Nov 9, 2015, 11.31 AM IST

"BEIJING: At home her son still calls her daddy, at work she dresses in a masculine style, but this Chinese person has a "little secret" -- she was born male, but is not any more.
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She had long identified as a woman, and suffered from depression after starting a family, opting in the end to have a surgical sex change.
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"I had wanted to kill myself, but then I decided I should do something -- if I die, I'd rather die on the operation table," she adds. "