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Thailand has issued rules making sex change surgery more difficult — including a requirement that potential candidates cross-dress for a year — over fears that some patients are rushing into the operation, a medical association said Thursday.
泰國醫學協會于周四稱,泰國針對變性手術頒布的最新法規使得在該國進行變性手術將更加困難。新法規包括要求申請者變裝一年,以防止一些手術者倉促決定變性。
文中的sex change surgery就是指“變性手術”。在泰國,transsexual and transgender(易性癖者和變性人)非常普遍,在公司、cosmetics counter(化妝品柜臺)、red-light district(紅燈區)都可以見到他們的身影。此外,泰國每年還會舉辦transgender beauty pageant(變性人選美比賽)。
根據此次規定,sex change surgery(變性手術)申請者還要進行術前mental evaluation(精神評估)和術后follow-up visit(跟蹤回訪)。而長期的cross-dresser(變裝者)可以免去one-year waiting period(一年的等候期)。