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| | Archive 432 - China to regulate sex-change operations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | BEIJING - China's health authorities are looking into regulating sex-change operations in the country, where an estimated 250,000 people hanker to have their gender altered surgically. |
 | | The need for legislation, which currently does not exist, was driven home when a murderer from north-east China sought to escape arrest by undergoing surgery last year to become a woman, said Professor Chen Huanran, who is among China's top sex-change surgeons. |
 | | A woman from Anhui, Madam Chen, 50, said: "I didn't know that such operations were possible until my daughter begged her father and me to allow her to go through surgery to become a man. We agreed, because we were afraid she might become a drug addict." |
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