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Reporter Alexis Diao spends time with Ro Lewis, a 37-year-old male-to-female transsexual anticipating a very special call from hospital in Thailand to confirm her sex change surgery. People will often go overseas, she says, because it's less expensive.
But for Lewis, becoming a woman goes deeper than fulfilling a social construct, although that's a big part of it, too. Some trans-women, she says, are purely medical about it.Transitioning is a spiritual journey for Lewis.
"For me, I have to integrate this into my whole being. It has to become part of my life in some way, it has to be normal. And so it is normal."
Head to http://www.npr.org/internedition/fall09 to watch this story as a multimedia piece.
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Reporter Alexis Diao spends time with Ro Lewis, a 37-year-old male-to-female transsexual anticipating a very special call from hospital in Thailand to confirm her sex change surgery. People will often go overseas, she says, because it's less expensive.
But for Lewis, becoming a woman goes deeper than fulfilling a social construct, although that's a big part of it, too. Some trans-women, she says, are purely medical about it.Transitioning is a spiritual journey for Lewis.
"For me, I have to integrate this into my whole being. It has to become part of my life in some way, it has to be normal. And so it is normal."
Head to http://www.npr.org/internedition/fall09 to watch this story as a multimedia piece.
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