Singapore Can Make You the Man or Woman You Want to Be

Transgender Patients Excited about Low Priced Sex Reassignment Surgery

It’s important that you like what you see when you look in the mirror.  Although the phrase typically refers to a person’s character, for some people, their external appearance doesn’t reflect who’s on the inside. Sex reassignment is an increasingly popular option, but in countries like the US, France, or Canada, it remains an option that is only available to the very wealthy.  This is one reason why medical tourism has started to take off in recent years.  Growing numbers of soon-to-be transgender patients are willing to travel to places like Singapore for lower priced sex reassignment surgeries.

 

Singapore Answers Call for Affordable Plastic Surgery

Medical tourists have decided to stop paying top dollar now that they know that affordable plastic surgery is just a vacation away.  More than 750,000 Americans traveled to Singapore and other medical tourism destination countries in 2007 and some estimate that up to a million medical tourists will travel to Singapore alone in 2012.

 

Are Medical Vacations Safe enough for a Sex Change?

Low priced or not, there are many facets to sex reassignment surgery.  In transforming yourself from male to female, you need to decide which size chest you want and whether or not to make it a complete transition or leave some of the original parts intact.  From female to male, the complications may increase with decisions about removing the uterus and phalloplasty.  Not surprisingly, with all the cutting, rearranging, hormone injections, and recovery times, safety is a major concern.  Is traveling abroad for medical vacations safe enough to make low priced sex reassignment surgery in Singapore worthwhile? 

 

Arguably one of the most important factors in the decision is where you go.  It’s one thing to go to Singapore and visit an unmarked building in a run-down section of the city.  If this is your idea of a medical vacation, then no, it’s probably not gonna be safe for you.  Even in the United States, people often die or become seriously disfigured in pursuit of what they believe to be "affordable" surgery.  But it’s another scenario altogether when you’ve researched an accredited Singaporean medical facility with western-trained doctors and staff and the latest technology.  For those who take their time, research upstanding accredited hospitals like Singapore’s Parkway Hospitals, medical vacationing is at least as safe as sex reassignment surgery performed in the US.