Change-of-Sex Surgeries at Johns Hopkins: About 20 Done So Far
By Tony Ortega
16 August, 2010
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/08/change-of-sex_s.php (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/08/change-of-sex_s.php)
For the past five years or so, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has been offering a change-of-sex service to certain carefully screened patients. This service has its psychotherapeutic and hormone-therapy aspects as well as its surgical procedures and thus demands the participation of a team of specialists representing plastic and reconstructive surgery, gynecological surgery, urology, endocrinology, and neurology, in addition to psychiatry and the press. It is the psychiatrist who, together with the patient, makes the final decision as to whether the rest of the team goes to work or not.
it should probably be noted this is an article from 1969, not current practice.