South Korean Dr.
Kim Seok-Kwun, 61, is a devout Protestant
known as the "father of South Korean transgender people".
-He created a functioning penis for a
Buddhist monk who was born female.
-In an interview before the monk's
recent successful surgery to become a man, Kim said-
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| Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun in an interview. |
"I've decided to defy God's will. At first, I agonized over whether I should do these operations because I wondered if I was defying God. I was overcome with a sense of shame. But my patients desperately wanted these surgeries. Without them, they'd kill themselves."
"Some people are born without genitals or with cleft lips or with no ears or with their fingers stuck together. Why does God create people like this? Aren't these God's mistakes?" Kim said. "And isn't a mismatched sexual identity a mistake, too?"
When
Kim first started doing the surgeries in the 1980s, his pastor
objected. Friends and fellow doctors joked that he was going to hell if
he didn't stop. He now feels a great sense of achievement for helping
people who feel trapped in the wrong body. He believes he's correcting
what he calls God's mistakes.
-With about 320 sex change operations over the past 28 years, Kim's record widely believed
to be the most by any single doctor in the country.
-Of his 320 sex change
operations, about 210 are male-to-female, the rest female to male.
-Male-to-female procedures cost $10,210 to $13,920, and the more difficult
female-to-male procedures cost 31 million won ($28,760).
-Sex
change operations "are a blasphemy against God and make the world a
more miserable place," said the Rev. Hong Jae Chul, president of the
Seoul-based Christian Council of Korea. He called Kim's remarks "cursed
and deplorable."
Kim, a
plastic surgeon at Dong-A University Hospital in the southeastern port
city of Busan, specializes in fixing facial deformities. He began doing
sex change operations in 1986 after several men wearing women's clothing
visited him separately and asked him to construct vaginas for them.
His
best known patient is South Korea's most famous transsexual entertainer,
Harisu, who had Kim officiate at her 2007 wedding to a male singer.
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| In this March 11, 2014 photo, Harisu, South Korea’s most famous transsexual entertainer |
Source: Yahoo News.
& News.com
HBC: I am just Speechless.
This serious. How real is dis? It looks like a joke 2 me.
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