[XR7]

The same court with jurisdiction over legal name changes "may order a legal change of sex and enter a judgment indicating the change of sex of a person whose sex has been changed by surgical procedure."

Mutilating your body does not change your sex - no matter what the law, or some judge says.
Isn't your sex determined by your chromosomes?

[lkco]

My first thought is that poor kid. My second thought is that poor wife (the non-altered female that can’t conceive). My next thoughts are for the grandparents. Poor them and shame on that she/he for going public with this. It can’t do anyhing but hurt everyone else involved.

[Salman]

I think this story is a hoax.

[sanchmo]

Body Integrity Identity Disorder is the overwhelming desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs or other parts of the body. Sometimes its sufferers take it upon themselves to amputate their own limbs... involves any wish to significantly alter body integrity. Some people suffer from the desire to become paralyzed, blind, deaf, use orthopaedic appliances such as leg-braces, etc... The condition is usually treated as a psychiatric disorder.

Phantom Limb is the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts... Approximately 50 to 80% of amputees experience these phantom sensations in their amputated limb.

Phantom Pain Phantom pains can also occur in people who are born without limbs

Anorexia Nervosa: Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight... Distorted body image... Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Dender Identity Disorder a condition in which a person has been born one gender, usually on the basis of their sex at birth, but identifies as belonging to another gender, and feels significant discomfort or the inability to deal with this condition... The core symptom of gender identity disorders is gender dysphoria, literally being uncomfortable with one's assigned gender. This feeling is usually reported as "having always been there" since childhood, although in some cases, it appears in adolescence or adulthood.

[weegee]

It is just as possible to change your sex as it is to change your race.

The law is a ass.