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Title: Cuba's first transsexual gets surgery
Post by: Shana A on May 20, 2011, 08:47:16 AM
Post by: Shana A on May 20, 2011, 08:47:16 AM
Cuba's first transsexual gets surgery
Friday, May 20, 2011 ยป 07:59pm
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/05/20/Cubas_first_transsexual_gets_surgery_615425.html (http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/05/20/Cubas_first_transsexual_gets_surgery_615425.html)
After 40 years of waiting, 61-year-old metalworker Juani Santos finally underwent a sex reassignment surgery as part of the Cuban government's revolutionary program to fund sex-change operations.
According to Reuters, Santos was clinically diagnosed as the first transsexual man on the island in 1972, when he still struggled with a lot prejudice even from his family and friends.
In 2008, when authorities approved a program to allow free sex changes, Santos was one of the first inline and managed to be among some 30 patients approved for the operation.
Friday, May 20, 2011 ยป 07:59pm
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/05/20/Cubas_first_transsexual_gets_surgery_615425.html (http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2011/05/20/Cubas_first_transsexual_gets_surgery_615425.html)
After 40 years of waiting, 61-year-old metalworker Juani Santos finally underwent a sex reassignment surgery as part of the Cuban government's revolutionary program to fund sex-change operations.
According to Reuters, Santos was clinically diagnosed as the first transsexual man on the island in 1972, when he still struggled with a lot prejudice even from his family and friends.
In 2008, when authorities approved a program to allow free sex changes, Santos was one of the first inline and managed to be among some 30 patients approved for the operation.