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<font color=red>I feel similarly about the cha-cha
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Okay, I've not seen this show yet, but I encourage everyone to check it out.
http://www.wetv.com/sex-change-hospital/
It premiers tomorrow night.
It's about the hospital in Trinidad, Colorado (Sex Change Capital of the World) where a transgender surgeon (Marci Bowers) carries on the practice of the brilliant Dr. Stanley Biber (who was a leader in the field, and for many years the only surgeon in the U.S. who performed gender reassignment surgery).
I grew up in Trinidad Colorado, and knew Dr. Biber personally (his son was in the Cub Scout Den that I mentored as a Boy Scout). While, I've never met Dr. Bowers, I'm told she is as much loved and respected by the community as Dr. Biber was.
I hope that they focus somewhat on how Trinidad, for being a very small town, is VERY accepting of the trangender doctor and her patients. As High School students in Trinidad, we had the oportunity to listen to Dr. Biber and his patients talk to our biology and psychology classes, and there were several of Dr. Biber's patients who settled in Trinidad because they fell in love with the area and felt accepted there. Granted, I left 20 years ago, but I am proud of my backward little town where a person being transgender is such a non-issue. It's an interesting dichotomy to be sure, but it works.
Okay, I've rambled on way too much,but check out the show.
http://www.wetv.com/sex-change-hospital/
It premiers tomorrow night.
It's about the hospital in Trinidad, Colorado (Sex Change Capital of the World) where a transgender surgeon (Marci Bowers) carries on the practice of the brilliant Dr. Stanley Biber (who was a leader in the field, and for many years the only surgeon in the U.S. who performed gender reassignment surgery).
I grew up in Trinidad Colorado, and knew Dr. Biber personally (his son was in the Cub Scout Den that I mentored as a Boy Scout). While, I've never met Dr. Bowers, I'm told she is as much loved and respected by the community as Dr. Biber was.
I hope that they focus somewhat on how Trinidad, for being a very small town, is VERY accepting of the trangender doctor and her patients. As High School students in Trinidad, we had the oportunity to listen to Dr. Biber and his patients talk to our biology and psychology classes, and there were several of Dr. Biber's patients who settled in Trinidad because they fell in love with the area and felt accepted there. Granted, I left 20 years ago, but I am proud of my backward little town where a person being transgender is such a non-issue. It's an interesting dichotomy to be sure, but it works.
Okay, I've rambled on way too much,but check out the show.
