Dr Sanguan is one of the world’s leading sex reassignment surgeons, a quiet, unassuming chap who changes two or three people from men to women each week. That a large number of his patients are capable of orgasm is testament to his unique skill. In his spare time he enjoys cycling or he works in the Thai state hospital reconstructing the faces of motorcycle accident victims for a meagre government wage.
Juliex Taylor Reid is one of Dr Sanguan’s patients, a transgendered New Zealander who flew over specially for the operation. Previously Shaun, a computer engineer and one time builder of cars, Juliex now hates getting greasy, wants to work with people rather than ‘wiring bits of junk’ and has just crashed her car. She is, she admits, now a terrible driver.
Sporting a vagina constructed from the skin of the scrotum and a clitoris fashioned from the glans, Juliex has become the gender she has known she was since birth. With her is Katrina, Juliex’s partner, who now wants to have children with the sperm banked before Shaun’s operation.
20 year old Sanly Da is not one of Dr Sanguan's patients, but would love to be. One of Thailand’s many Ladyboys, or Katoeys: men who have changed or want to change into women. It is a common phenomena and they are widely tolerated in Thai society.
At the age of sixteen, Sanly decided she had to have the operation and left her rural home and family for the bright lights of tourist island Phuket. She had just £15 in her pocket. Now working as a prostitute and a cabaret dancer, her dream is to save enough for the operation, marry a westerner and open a beauty salon. So far she has managed to save enough for silicone nose and lips but has no regular boyfriend. “You want to marry me?” she asked.
Sanly takes contraceptive pills for the oestrogen they offer and as a result has developed small breasts, but she also uses yaba – a herion / amphetamine mix that allows her to work through the night.
“I know Dr. Sanguan. He very good. Very beautiful but so expensive. He make beautiful pussy…”
Sex Reassignment