Number of NHS sex change operations triples

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Since 2000 a total of 853 men have gone under the knife to become women while in the same time span 12 women have had an operation to become a man. Back in 2000 there were just 54 sex change operations carried out in the country while last year the figure stood at 143. The average age for a man having a sex change operation is 42 with only one procedure in the last nine years being carried out on somebody under 21.