Some transgender women turn to underground cosmetic procedures
by Joseph Erbentraut
EDGE Contributor
Friday Mar 4, 2011
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Ever since the news emerged last month that a 20-year-old woman who received a silicone injection in her buttocks in a Philadelphia hotel room died, the issue of so-called underground cosmetic procedures has re-emerged into the forefront of mainstream media.
Missing in the coverage of Claudia Aderotimi's tragic death, however, were transgender people. She was not trans herself, but many gender-variant women pursue similar treatments due to the perception or reality that they lack other options to help create a body on the outside that matches how they feel-or want to look-on the inside.