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Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery By Janice G. Raymond Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Women’s Studies Hampshire College/University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts June, 1980 Note: If you’re looking for the article that proves that Raymond helped strip insurance coverage of trans care from public and private insurers, that article is located here. The subject of transsexualism, whether raised in the public forum or in the academic or medical communities, has been viewed generally as a medical issue that requires hormonal and surgical intervention. Several assumptions accompany this profile of transsexualism. That the transsexual is a person who is trapped in the body of the wrong sex. Thus we have the popular definition of a transsexual as a “female mind in a male body.”[1] This results in the perception of transsexualism as a disease or as disease-like and thus a medical problem. In many cases,

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