With transsexual surgery so common I assume that anything less would not satisfy you."

"Do you know the procedure for testing male appli-cants for transsexual surgery?"

The benefits include hormone therapy, hysterectomies, mastectomies and male-to-female transsexual surgeries.

Beatrice the changeling - A huge Tongan woman who has undergone transsexual surgery.

Most surgeons who specialize in transsexual surgeries will perform it, and some general plastic surgeons will as well.

In 1931, Dr. Felix Abraham, a physician at the institute, published the first scientific article on human transsexual surgery.

She also faulted the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' plan to extend city employees' insurance coverage to cover transsexual surgery.

"There are three major centers for transsexual surgery: Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, and Columbus Medical Center.

Meltzer was reportedly forced out due to Symphony's hefty price increase, that some claim was a ruse due to the conservative corporation's objections to transsexual surgery.

Other proposed terms for SRS include "gender confirmation surgery," "gender realignment surgery," and "transsexual surgery."

Radical feminist Janice Raymond's 1979 book, The Transsexual Empire, was and still is controversial due to its unequivocal condemnation of transsexual surgeries.

Kaveney compared Jeffreys' desire to ban transsexual surgery to the Catholic Church's desire to ban abortion, arguing that both proposals bear negative "implications for all women."

She describes him preparing for the world's first male-to-female transsexual surgery: cigarette in hand, doing a dry run on a cadaver while Cowell sits nervously in the waiting room in a skirt and blond wig.

In interview, Bindel explains that Jeffreys believes that transsexual surgery "is an extension of the beauty industry offering cosmetic solutions to deeper rooted problems" and that in a society without gender this would be unnecessary.