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transsexualism
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transsexualism

Self-identification with one sex by a person who has the external genitalia and secondary sexual characteristics of the other sex. Early in life, such a person adopts the behaviour characteristic of the opposite sex. Surgery and hormone therapy now allow permanent sex change, a procedure first performed in 1952. The male-to-female operation is more common because the genital reconstruction is more satisfactory. The male transsexual's penis and testes are removed and an artificial vagina created; breasts are created with implants or female sex hormones. Female transsexuals may undergo mastectomy and hormone treatments to produce male secondary sexual characteristics, but attempts to create an artificial penis have not been satisfactory.
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TRANSAMERICA *** FILM4 9pm Desperate Housewives'Felicity Huffman (top, with Graham Greene) leaves behind the glamour of Wisteria Lane to play - in an Oscar-nominated role - a pre-op transsexual.
Wednesday: FILMS OF THE DAY by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
David Tute gives a competent performance as Cilla's son Alfie who is convinced he is no longer gay but a pre-op transsexual however it becomes clear that Alfie is trying to emulate his mother and find a stability which his family is lacking.
Poignant snapshot of life; YOUNG REVIEWERS 2008/09 by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
00pm (2005) (15) A pre-op transsexual is startled to discover the existence of a teenage son from a brief relationship with a woman years ago, and is forced to put plans of surgery aside in favour of parental responsibilities.
FILMS: WEDNESDAY Pick of the day by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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