Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Prevalance of Transsexuality in Australia
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/06/prevalance-of-transsexuality-in.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/06/prevalance-of-transsexuality-in.html)
A snippet from a story about a young trans woman, from The Australian:
Last year the Australian Passport Office issued 202 passports in which the stated gender was different to an earlier passport or to a birth certificate.
Some of those might be for Intersex conditions, but a reasonable approximation is 200 transsexual transitions per year. Most people - including all FtoMs who have GRS (Genital Reconstruction Surgery) have to go overseas. There would be perhaps 30 GRS procedures performed in Australia per year, the bulk of them by Dr Ceber in Melbourne.