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newspaper that "this is about healing for women who feel trapped in men's bodies". A post-op transsexual patient of
Foerster stated to the Oklahoma news media that "I think they do better work here. I know a gal who had surgery in Colorado (performed by Biber) and she ended up having a colostomy. I
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Sex reassignment surgery still occurs in
Oklahoma, but the state is not a major center for SRS. Foerster continues to provide SRS for trans women and top and bottom surgery for trans men. A few other doctors, including the Oklahoma Memorial Hospital Gender Reassignment Program, provide FTM top and
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Reynolds had his 25-year-old son appear with some post-op trans women at the meeting to decide the fate of the procedures at
Baptist Medical Center. Many of Foerster's post-op patients were male to female transsexuals who were in the
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have everything that a woman has including the sensitivity". The patient then ended with a sexually explicit description of her post op sex life and the functioning of her spongiform clitoris structure.
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