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BANGKOK A MECCA FOR SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES (THE BOSTON GLOBE) : August 23, 2006

For people who believe they were born in the wrong gender. Doctor Preecha Tiewtranon has performed more than 3,000 male to female reassignment surgeries over nearly three decades. Most patients have traveled around the world for treatments having decided years ago. To qualify applicants must already have been living and dressing as a woman fulltime and must provide at least one recommendation letter from a psychiatrist.

In majority of foreign patients they come from United States, followed by Europe and Australia. Preecha performs up to 200 surgeries a year himself and estimates roughly 1,500 procedures occur annually in Thailand at his clinic and elsewhere with his students. “The patients are so desperate to have this kind of operation, “Preecha said” “The reason they come, No. 1 is they can get good result and No.2 the price is low and they can afford it.”