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Sex-Change Surgery: An 'Unacceptable Innovation?'

Macquarie University Sydney

Sex-reassignment surgery is a technique used to alter the genital structure of an individual so that their genitals more closely resemble the genitals of persons of the opposite sex. It is a surgical operation used for individuals who are born with an ambiguous genital structure, and it is used for adult persons who wish to change their genital sex (transsexuals). This paper will focus on the latter situation¹. 'Operations on transsexuals have been performed in Australia since the late 1950s though, according to Giles, the earliest recorded case of surgery in the world may have been 1930 in Weimar Germany at Dresden (1989, 292).

Journal of Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 1, 3-19 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/144078339403000101


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