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ftmichaelhttp://guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/spanish-teenager-transsexual-operation
Sixteen-year-old becomes Spain's youngest transsexual
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 January 2010 20.25 GMT
Article history
A Spanish clinic today revealed it had performed a male-to-female sex-change operation on a 16-year-old, making her the youngest patient to undergo the operation in the country's history.
The unnamed teenager had been taking hormones to change her body since she was 15, according to doctors who treated her at Barcelona's hospital clínico, and she had been seeing doctors and psychiatrists for even longer. "The patient has been in treatment for nearly three years," said the surgeon who carried out the operation, Dr Iván Mañero.
A sex-change operation on a minor requires the approval of a Spanish court to override a law that sets the minimum age for such operations as 18.
That permission was given in November by a judge after the the child's parents had themselves made the request. The operation was carried out in December, though news of it was only released on Monday.
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Sixteen-year-old becomes Spain's youngest transsexual
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 12 January 2010 20.25 GMT
Article history
A Spanish clinic today revealed it had performed a male-to-female sex-change operation on a 16-year-old, making her the youngest patient to undergo the operation in the country's history.
The unnamed teenager had been taking hormones to change her body since she was 15, according to doctors who treated her at Barcelona's hospital clínico, and she had been seeing doctors and psychiatrists for even longer. "The patient has been in treatment for nearly three years," said the surgeon who carried out the operation, Dr Iván Mañero.
A sex-change operation on a minor requires the approval of a Spanish court to override a law that sets the minimum age for such operations as 18.
That permission was given in November by a judge after the the child's parents had themselves made the request. The operation was carried out in December, though news of it was only released on Monday.
( Read more... )
