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Date Posted: 14:45:20 10/13/04 Wed
Author: skinner
Author Host/IP: 69.157.79.149
Subject: One more question
In reply to: skinner 's message, "Re: Veronica Mars" on 14:28:37 10/13/04 Wed

Just how common is sexual reassignment in the US anyway? Seriously, how many operations happen a year?

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[> [> [> Re: One more question -- wwolfe, 16:41:17 10/13/04 Wed (161.149.63.106)

I went to Ask Jeeves and typed, "How many sexual reassignment surgeries were performed in 2003 in the United States?" Among the links it gave me was one to a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Sept. 28, 2003. The story contained this statistic:

"The International Foundation for Gender Education, based in Waltham, Mass., estimates there are nearly 2,000 sexual reassignment surgeries performed each year."

So there you go.

My guilty TV pleasure this fall is "dr. vegas," starring Rob Lowe and Joe Pantoliano. I know it's cheesy, but I get a kick out of how the plots are "one damn thing after another." Pantoliano is always fun and Lowe does well as the flawed title character. The two women's roles are surprisingly lively, as well. I can't claim this as great art, but it has a lot more of a charge than many more respectable shows. If nothing else, the way it assumes a city built on corruption and then deals with the consequences of that without wringing its hands or preaching leads to an energy not unlike the old Warner Brothers movies starring James Cagney from the 1930s. Disreputable and fun - the latter a direct result of the former, I suspect.

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