Somehow I think Robin Williams is waaay too busy to be doing this right now. (http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1085495)
Sex reassignment is still new in India, but activism and awareness have prompted more people to opt for it. Mumbai sexologist Prakash Kothari says he gets five to seven queries a month about SRS, and refers two for surgery every year. "This is a large number compared to five years ago," he adds.
"Internet-aided awareness is bringing transsexuals seeking SRS out in the open." Sunil Keswani of Breach Candy and Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai, carries out at least two sex change procedures every year.
Dr Manohar Lal Sharma of Mool Chand Hospital, Delhi, says he operates on "three to four" cases every year since 2004, as against "one in two years" in the 10 years before. Chennai sexologist D Narayana Reddy says half the number of people seeking SRS in the last 25 years have been in the last three.
Older article:
Mr ya Miss? (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1051211/asp/look/story_5579950.asp)
But if you thought sex change operations were the prerogative of the rich and the famous, those with the money and the leisure to indulge their whims and fantasies, think again. Cases of sex change operation, or sex reassignment surgery, as it is called, are on the rise in India. And the people going in for it come from all walks of life. Points out Dr Manohar Lal Sharma, a Delhi-based plastic surgeon, "I have had patients ranging from schoolteachers to MBAs, from barristers to bureaucrats."