#WowTinz: "I correct 'God's mistakes"-Sex change doc

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-

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.

In this March 11, 2014 photo, Harisu, South Korea’s most famous transsexual entertainer

Source: Yahoo News.  

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