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Title: A Medical Transition (opinion)
Post by: Natasha on December 29, 2007, 06:40:56 AM
A Medical Transition (opinion)

http://www.baltimoregaylife.com/Opinion/122807_3.htm
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
12/28/2007

Transgender surgical options has long been looked at by the medical establishment with some derision. Many do not view any surgical procedures related to genital reassignment – or any other surgery or treatment related to transsexuality – to be "real medicine." It's treated as the lowest of surgeries, somewhere above sub-dermal implants and lower than penile extension.