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Ethics involve society's accepted standards of right and wrong. In the practice of gender reassignment surgery, doctors must make ethical choices regarding which gender to assign babies with ambiguous or deformed genitals. Determining ethical practices in this arena has evolved since the first sexual reassignment surgery was performed in 1922. There is still not a consensus among doctors as to what makes a person male or female.
Gender or sexual reassignment surgery is costly. As of October 2009, most insurance companies do not consider the surgery to be "medically necessary" and do not cover such procedures. With proper research and planning, financing the many different surgeries and treatments involved in gender reassignment is possible.
People opt for gender reassignment surgery to have their gender match their emotional and psychological identity. Some people feel that they were born the wrong gender, and to be happy they need to have that corrected. Follow these steps to learn how to have gender reassignment surgery.
