SYDNEY
The Sydney option is only for surgery there is not a team or clinic as such.
Information recently is that there are 2 surgeons in Sydney however we only have information from
Dr Peter Haertsch.The surgeon does require you to have a good supportive G.P., an Endocrinologists
report concerning the hormonal reassignment you have undergone and favourable psychiatric assessments
from two independent Psychiatrists before he will consider you for reassignment.
This can all be done in your home state and once he has all this he will need blood tests
for HIV/aids and hepatitis b/c one series as early as possible and a second series not more than a month prior to surgery.
He will do the surgery after a one year 'real life test ' (R.L.T.) period and
most post-operative people agree you need at least twelve months to two years living and working
in your new role before you even consider surgery, its a big decision to make and once reassignment
is done there is no going back!!.
His surgical technique is a little different to that of the Melbourne surgeons,
he still uses the penile inversion and will extend the vaginal length with a split
skin graft from the thigh or a whole skin graft from the tummy if required
( the tummy technique is more expensive but he includes a tummy tuck or Pitanguy lipectomy).
The difference comes in the clitoroplasty, instead of leaving some tissue intact for a future
procedure, he uses micro-surgical techniques to dissect the penile stump leaving the main penile nerves
intact then after removing the excess stump tissue he uses the remaining erectile tissue, nerves and
blood supplies to form a functional, sensitive and aesthetically accurate hooded clitoris.
His costs are some what higher however.
More information is available from Dr Haertsch's offices on
phone no. +61 2 9868-5155,
FAX +61 2 9868-5360 or by Mail, PO Box 441, Epping NSW Australia 2121 or
on the WEB site address below:
http://www.samasher.com/~perette/Sc/S/Haertsch/index.html
apologies this link is now broken and we have not yet tracked down another reference.
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