Criteria for the Evaulation of Male-to-Female Transsexual Patients

Abstract

The sensational publicity given to the 'sex change' of a former American C.1., George Jorgensen, made hundreds of transsexuals aware of the fact that the field of medicine offers a 'cure' for their problem. The result of this is that an ever increasing number of transsexuals approach physicians with the request for sex reassignment surgery. Besides possible moral and ethical objections to the reassignment of a biologically normal male to the opposite sex, the physician is also faced with the problem of having to amputate normal organs in order to create the image of the opposite sex.