All Posts Tagged With: "gender dysphoria"

Born in the wrong body

By James Fletcher – BBC News Doctors in Britain are reviewing guidelines for the treatment of people under 18 with gender dysphoria. This is a condition where someone is born one sex but feels they are really the other. A key issue is the age at which young people can be prescribed drugs which pause [...]

29Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transsexual in court appeal for breast enlargement

A transsexual refused breast enlargement surgery on the NHS is to take her case to the High Court, at a cost of tens of thousands of pounds to the hospital’s budget. From Telegraph.co.uk The legally aided gender dysphoria sufferer, who has been living as a woman for over 10 years, says breast augmentation is essential [...]

8Oct2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Changing Genders: An Interview With the World’s Leading Sex Change Surgeon

By Karlie Pouliot – Fox News Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves. In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs [...]

16Sep2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Sex-change clinic ‘got it wrong’

Jill Stark – The Age AUSTRALIA’S only sex-change clinic has been temporarily shut down and its controversial director forced to quit amid growing claims that patients with psychiatric problems have been wrongly diagnosed as transsexuals and encouraged to have radical gender reassignment surgery. The Sunday Age has been told at least eight former patients of [...]

30May2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Funding for sex change therapy

Transgender patients in Wales will now be able to access funding for gender reassignment therapy under a new policy by the Health Commission Wales (HCW). Previously “exceptional circumstances” had to be applied to funding applications for treatment of gender dysphoria. The condition means those affected feel trapped in the body of the wrong sex. The [...]

23Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

1,000 sign up to support four Oxfordshire men who want to become women

By Amanda Williams » A GROUP of men, each of whom wants surgery to become women, is leading a campaign to get the Oxfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust to pay for sex change operations. Last night, almost 1,000 people had signed their petition calling on the trust to change its policy and allow gender reassignment [...]

23Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued