Sex News

September, 1980

Some Enjoy Being a GirlLast year, eyebrows in the medical world were raised when The Johns Hopkins Hospital phased out its sex-reassignment-surgery program. Hopkins had been the first American hospital to offer surgery among other solutions to gender-identity problems. After conducting a study comparing sex-change patients with those who had instead received psychiatric counseling, the hospital had concluded that surgery was no more effective than counseling in treating identity problems.Now, a...