News
2005-08-20
Aussie sues over
misdiagnosis as transsexual
An Australian man
who says his doctors misdiagnosed him as a transsexual
may sue the medical team that advised him to have a sex
An Australian man
who says his doctors misdiagnosed him as a transsexual
may sue the medical team that advised him to have a sex
change, an appeals court ruled. Alan Michael Finch was
21 when he underwent a sex-change operation to become
a woman in 1988. By 1996, however, Finch said he was
"a mess" and struggling to live life as a woman named
Helen.
The following
year Finch began another round of surgery and reverted to
life as a man. Finch claims that the doctors who performed
the initial sex change knew he was not a suitable
candidate based on a medical report that described his
masculinity as above average. Last year a court
granted Finch an extension to the usual six-year time limit
on such cases. (AP)
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