Are most people comfortable with their gender?  Do most feel at peace with the genitalia that was bestowed upon them at birth by Mother Nature?  Unfortunately, this is not the case with individuals who experience a mismatch between their brain-sex and their genital-sex.  Born one gender but identifying totally with the opposite, transsexuals experience and endure exceptional challenges to achieve congruency of mind and body through hormone therapy, real life experience and surgery. 

World renowned German sexologist and student of endocrinology, Harry Benjamin began treating transsexual individuals in the late 1940's, even when the notion was not a popular one amongst his peers and fellow medical colleagues. Harry Benjamin’s Standards of Care are upheld by the medical and Mental Health Professionals when determining whether or not a person is indeed a transsexual.
(The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, 2001).

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Title: Redefining Gender
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