{"id":187844,"date":"2021-02-24T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/transgender-twins-undergo-double-sex-change-surgery\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:35:35","slug":"transgender-twins-undergo-double-sex-change-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/transgender-twins-undergo-double-sex-change-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Transgender twins undergo double sex change surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Transgender twins undergo double sex change surgery<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Two identical twin sisters in Brazil have had double gender confirmation surgery in a medical first. <\/p>\n

Mayla\u00a0Rezende and Sofia Albuquerck, who grew up in the small town of Tapira in southwestern Brazil, were born with male sex parts, but say they\u2019ve always known they were girls. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would blow dandelion seeds into the air and wish for God to turn me into a girl,\u201d said Rezende, a 19-year-old brunette studying Medicine, in an interview with AFP<\/a>. \u201cI always loved my body, but I didn\u2019t like my genitalia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though gender reassignment surgery is covered under Brazil\u2019s nationalized healthcare, the clinics are few and far between, and the waitlist can be long. <\/p>\n

The girls were planning to travel<\/a> to Thailand for their procedures, but were able to stay local. They contracted a private\u00a0doctor, with the financial help of their grandfather, who auctioned off property to finance the nearly-$20,000 operations. <\/p>\n

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Doctor Jose Martins and his medical team from the Transgender Centre Brazil performing a sex change operation. <\/figcaption>
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On February 11th and 12th, the sisters received tandem surgeries to affirm their gender identity. <\/p>\n

Dr. Jose Carlos Martins of the Transgender Center Brazil performed five hour surgery on the sisters one day apart. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the only reported case in the world of twins who were presumed to be male at birth undergoing female gender confirmation surgery together,\u201d the doctor claimed. <\/p>\n

It was a long time coming for the girls, who were reportedly subjected to bullying and sexual harassment in their youth.<\/p>\n

Brazil is well-known to be one of the most transphobic countries \u2014 though the US has its share of tragic anti-trans attacks too. Last year alone, 175 trans people were murdered in Brazil, according to<\/a> the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals of Brazil\u2019s (ANTRA), the most of any country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, the young women praise their parents for accepting them. Rezende called their mom a \u201clioness,\u201d and added, \u201d she protected us fiercely.\u201d The twins have two additional sisters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Doctor Jose Martins, who performed the back-to-back procedures, with his book. <\/figcaption>
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Albuquerck, who is working toward a degree in civil engineering in Sao Paulo said, \u2018I\u2019m proud to be a trans woman.\u201d She told the French news<\/a> outlet, \u201cI\u2019ve lived in fear of society for too long.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When her sister saw herself after the surgery, she broke down in tears. <\/p>\n

\u2018When I woke up, I couldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s still sinking in. I no longer feel that discomfort when lying or sitting down. It\u2019s a wonderful thing.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Transgender twins undergo double sex change surgery” Two identical twin sisters in Brazil have had double gender confirmation surgery in a medical first. Mayla\u00a0Rezende and Sofia Albuquerck, who grew up in the small town of Tapira in southwestern Brazil, were born with male sex parts, but say they\u2019ve always known they were girls. \u201cI would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/trans-twins-double-sex-change-6.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94979,22483,57715,70290],"class_list":["post-187844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-24-21","tag-brazil","tag-gender-identity","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}