Sex Change Hospital: ep 2
Documentary following two transsexuals through extreme surgery at the sex change capital of the world.
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About episode 2
Stephanie Battaglino, 47, is a marketing director from New Jersey. She was born as Michael. She says: "I remember, as a boy, putting on my mother's slip and loving the feel of the silkiness against me."
Ryan Brown, 40, from South Dakota, used to be called Julie. He says: "When I was about 13 I went up to my mom and dad and said to them 'I want to be a guy'. And my dad said 'no, you won't like it. He scared the hell out of me and I pushed it away for years."
Stephanie and Ryan have to come to Trinidad, Colorado, the sex change capital of the world, for gender reassignment surgery. Since 1969 more than 5,000 people have had sex change operations here. Marci Bowers, MD has been through the transition herself and now she's performing the operations.
Changing sex is not just about the surgery. Marci Bowers explains: "The first step is when you go out in public with that little minidress you've been saving, and go off to buy toilet paper. That, so to speak, takes balls."
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