GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

http://ipsnoticias.net/nota.asp?idnews=94446

Castro, directora del gubernamental Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (Cenesex), dijo que, desde su creación como grupo en 1979, la actual Comisión Nacional de Atención a Transexuales ha recibido 122 solicitudes y, tras estudios multidisciplinarios, se han identificado 30 transexuales, de los cuales 26 solicitaron la operación.

[Mariela] Castro, director of the government-run National Education Centre (Cenesex), said that, since its creation as a group in 1979, the actual National Committee of Transsexual Care has received 122 applications and, after multidisciplinary studies, 30 transsexuals have been identified, of which 26 requested surgery.

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In short, even if officially they don't follow the DSM and the Benjamin paradigm, they still have a dense bureaucracy that is there mostly to deny, in order to spend less.

You appear to be in Oregon.
US citizens are not allowed to have (non-emergency) medical treatment in Cuba.

Canadians wanting surgery in Cuba must book through
http://www.hsi-ssi.com/
To the best of my knowledge no Canadian has gone to Cuba for GRS even though "all types of cosmetic surgery" are available.

nerally speaking, Cubans medicine is excellent, from a purely technical perspective that is.