[Toughy]

I think this is the best place for this tidbit of happy information.

I get my health care at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center. Today at the VA it was Transgender Awareness Day and there was a half day mini conference (with CME/CEU) on Transgender Health with 3 presentations.It was a great conference and I talked about all of it in the Trans News thread, but I wanted to post this part here for a wider audience....

Marci Bowers, MD is probably the best known surgeon who does Sex Reassignment Surgery was one of the presenters. The best and most interesting thing I heard from her had to do with female genital mutilation/female circumcision. It seems the damage can be repaired and a woman will end up with normal looking and functioning genitalia. Yes it can be fixed with what she called 'a simple surgery'.The clitoris works and they can have vaginal penetration and even deliver a baby. She is the only surgeon (she knows about) in the US that is doing this surgery and she does every one of them pro bono. There are surgeons who Europe who do it and she went to Paris and trained. I was stunned and so were the rest of the audience.