A group of doctors and community activists came together on Tuesday to stress the need for uniform guidelines in India for sex reassignment surgery (SRS) for transgenders, which is lacking now. A combination of factors, including financial barriers and lack of healthcare providers (psychiatrists and surgeons), result in the community members succumbing to crude methods of sex reassignment, they said. In the wake of this, a group of experts, including doctors from NIMHANS, Victoria and M.S. Ramaiah hospitals, social activists, and members of Ondede and Swatantra (sexuality minority...
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