Conselho quer que município pague cirurgia para transexuais
Operação feita pelo HB é cobrada; entidade propõe custeio para procedimento em São Paulo

Alma feminina em corpo de homem
Cirurgia realizada em Belo Horizonte desde 1999 transforma homens insatisfeitos em mulheres plenas

Mudança de sexo
Pacientes revelam como se sentem depois da nova identidade. No Brasil, apenas seis transexuais conseguiram trocar de sexo e de nome

Australia - Body modification as self-mutilation by proxy... [2006-04-10 On Line Opinion]

The cutting up that girls do secretly in their bedrooms, the nipple piercing that is performed in high street studios, breast implant surgery, sex reassignment surgery, are connected. They are all forms of self-mutilation, and increasingly the cutting is carried out by proxies for a profit. They are responses to low social status, sexual and physical abuse or severe emotional distress created by a male dominant society which does not accept women's varied body shapes or condemns homosexuality.

Tax dollars and a sex change: a story of one patient

For more than two decades, Andy had collected monthly disability checks and food stamps. Taxpayers picked up his medical bills, too, including the cost of more than half a dozen stays in mental hospitals. But Andy has a job now and says his life is finally under control. He says he received his last disability check this month.What's changed?

Few private policies cover sex changes
The vast majority of private insurance carriers and self-insured employers don't cover sex-reassignment surgery, the state Insurance Commissioner's Office says.

Transgender is more than a physical image, it's identity
Jacob Mueller is on staff at UIC's Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns.

Town pools in to fund sex change

Babobhai can barely contain his excitement about having metamorphosed into a woman - Jayshree. Twenty-five years after Babobhai, 41, realised he was a woman trapped inside the body of a man, it was a moment of liberation when he recently went under the scalpel to get a sexchange operation done.