This document discusses the topic of changing sex through surgery and medical treatment. It begins with definitions of key terms like gender identity, transgender, and transsexual. It then outlines the different types of sex changes that can be done, from male to female and female to male. The document details the various surgical procedures involved in sex reassignment surgery, including breast augmentation and vaginoplasty. Potential risks and complications are addressed as well. Cultural perspectives on transgender individuals from countries like Taiwan, Thailand, and Bulgaria are presented. The discussion covers both the pros and cons of changing one's sex through medical intervention.

1. Changing Sex
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2. Introduction
Presented by Wesker

4. We will talk about…
1. Introduction of changing sex
2. Surgery & Medical aspects
3. News & Culture
4. Pros & Cons
5. Discussion & Conclusion

5. The Definition of changing sex
• Change sex
–is a change in a person's physical
sexual characteristics (as by surgery
and hormone treatments)

6. Terminologies
• Gender identity
– It describes the gender that a person
identifies themselves with a man or a woman.
• Transgender
– People who have a gender identity that is
different from the sex of their body.

7. Terminologies
• transsexual
– People change their body to make it more like
their gender identity.
– SRS and medical therapy .
• Intersex (Hermaphrodite)
– a person who born with male and female
sexual characteristic (combine features of
both sexes).

8. Types of changing sex
• Male to female
• Female to male
• Intersex (Hermaphrodite)

9. Methods of changing sex
surgery Psychological
treatment
Medical
aspects

10. Reference
• (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_id
entity)
• (http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Inter
sex)

11. Presented by Wayne
Sex Reassignment Surgery
(SRS)

12. Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS)
• What is SRS?
• It’s a term for the surgical procedures by
which a person’s physical appearance or the
genitals are changed to resemble the other sex.
• It was also known as genital reconstruction
surgery.

13. • further the understanding and treatment of
gender identity disorders
• medicine, psychology, law, social work,
counseling, psychotherapy, family studies,
sociology, anthropology, sexology, speech
and voice therapy, and other related fields.

14. Gender dysphoria Transsexualism
Gender idetity disorder

15. are referred to as transsexuals
Male Female
Hermaphrodite
Sex Reassignment Surgery
intersex
Transsexualism

16. Types of surgeries
Facial hair removal Penis construction
surgery
Feminization surgery Hysterectomy
Breast augmentation Mastectomy
Vagina construction
surgery
Hormone replacement
therapy

17. CCulture
Presented by Junior

18. Gender
boundary

19. In Taiwan
• Could you change gender on
your ID card?!
• Do they need to do military
service?!

20. Could you change gender on your
ID card?!
• After SRS, a person receives a sex
change certificate from the doctor
• take to the household registration
authorities to get a new ID card and
change information on ID card (ex. by
changing “eldest son” to “eldest
daughter”).
男

21. Do they need to do military
service?!
• diagnosed by a psychologist at a public
hospital
• get a diagnosis of gender identity disorder
• may be exempted from military serviceTaiwan

22. In Thailand- Human monster
- Ladyboy
- katoey
- Drag queen
Drag queen Human monsterLadyboyKatoey Drag queenLadyboyKatoey

23. Over 20,000 ladyboys in
Thailand
• Poor
• Gender identity disorder
• http://web.archive.org/web/20041120094937/http://home
.att.net/~leela2/inlegallimbo.htm
• http://www.bkk-gui.de/kat_eng_t.html

24. Transsexual Case
Presented by Mac

25. Ian Hamilton(Soldier) 金星 (Dancer)
利菁 (Artist)Bulgaria

26. Kim Petras
Born August 27, 1992
German teen pop singer
She insisting she was a girl.
Method: Hormone Treatment

27. The speaking of the person involved
• http://vodpod.com/watch/2575666-video-
sex-change-laws-in-thailand-tightened-up

28. Taiwan v.s Thailand
Taiwan Thailand
Age Between 20~40 Over 20, under 45
Fee M→F NT$ 270000
F→M NT$ 500000
M→F NT$ 140000
F→M NT$ 250000
Notes ◎ certificate
◎ SRS (Sex-SRS (Sex-
reassignment surgery)reassignment surgery)
◎ recommendation
◎ Stop injecting
Trend F→M M→F
Impression Discrimination and
unacceptable
Acceptable

29. Pros and Cons
Presented by Jerry

30. • Post-operative bleeding or Hematoma
• Infection
• Wound healing problem
• Recto-vaginal fistula
• Partial or complete flap necrosis
• Intravaginal hair growth
• Scaring
Cons

31. • In physiology ：
• sterile – no uterus( 子宮 ), no ovary( 卵巢 ),
no ovum( 卵子 )
• no testicle( 睪丸 ), no semen( 精子 )
• Frigidness( 性冷感 )- can’t erection

32. • In psychology ：
• Severely distressed – not used to the new
organ
• Melancholia – too much pressure of the
society
• Suicide

33. Pros
• Psychology ：
They can be what they are, do not limited
with the gender by their appearance,
body, and organs.

34. Discussion

35. Conclusion
• Changing sex is an interesting topic, but
you have to think of the results again and
again if you want to do the surgery. The
most important thing is that we need to
respect everyone in our society.

36. Thank youfor your listening^^