Talk:Sex change operation

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is a choice individuals make to their bodies both physically and mentally. ... The mental component can be as simple as dressing as a member of the opposite sex.

1. I don't see how dressing a certain way has anything to do with surgery
2. Why call it a choice? Is this a code word for "proposed legal right", or what?

I won't even comment about changing one's body mentally. --Ed Poor ^Talk 15:30, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

The dressing has to do with the person's lifestyle, that which might lead up to the person making such a decision. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kektklik (talk)

Hi Ed, to address your two points in order:

1. Dressing as a member of the opposite sex is usually prescribed (as far as I know) by doctors to "ease" the change, but also so that a person begins to "live" as that other sex. It is meant to give them time to back out, I think.
2. I only used the word choice because you, say, could "choose" to do it tomorrow, but I don't think there is anything in a society that compels someone to make that change (outside of some obscure medical condition of which I'm not aware.)

Hope it helps--good questions! RedRiverLib 15:38, 21 March 2008 (EDT)

Right. In the United States, you are required to live as the opposite sex for over a year (real life therapy) before being perscribed hormones. Maestro 21:33, 27 March 2008 (EDT)