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This ultimately leads them to seek psychiatric and
medical help. The publicizing of several sex change
operations in the last decade has falsely led them to

" believe that only by this means can they achieve
some degree of normal expression. By becoming
women they might enjoy the passions with men that
they crave.

Many men seeking sex changes have gone to
Mexico where medical laws against them are not as
stringent in the United States. Denmark, where the
Christine Jorgensen operation took place, is now
wary of performing the operation indiscriminately
because of the huge amount of publicity, most of it
adverse, the Jorgensen case received.

. Calornia doctors, however, have been called upon

| to repair the botched up work of the Mexican

k4 quacks. Consequently, many more sex change

B operations have taken place than is generally
believed.

Sex change, as a description of what happens, is a
Mmisnomer. Mutilation is more exact. The person
@submitting to a sex change becomes nothing more

than a eunuch on whose body the outward appear-
ance of a woman’s organs are simulated by plastic
surgery. Female hormones produce enlargement of
the breasts.

But the operation goes no further. It can not

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