Maharashtra Cop Lalita Salve to Undergo Sex Change Operation Today

The 29-year-old cop Lalita Salve will undergo a gender reassignment surgery today at St. George Hospital.

Lalita Salve's wait has finally come to an end as he is to undergo a gender reassignment surgery today. (Photo Credits: Twitter, Mumbai Mirror)

Twenty-nine-year-old Lalita Salve, a police constable from Rajegaon in Beed district in Maharastra is scheduled to undergo a gender reassignment surgery today and has been admitted to St. George Hospital. The cop was in the news last month when CM Devendra Fadnavis cleared his request for a sex change.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천 According to a report in , Lalita was diagnosed with a physical abnormality called 슬롯사이트˜undescended testes슬롯사이트� at birth, which caused confusion about his gender at birth. Testicles usually descend by the time the male child is nine months old. But in Lalita슬롯사이트™s case,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천they슬롯 머신 사이트 추천didn슬롯사이트™t descend into scrotal sac, which led the family to believe that he is, in fact, a female.

Lalita, who was raised as a girl, had trouble adjusting to his assigned gender since he was young. He approached the Bombay High Court in 2017, seeking a month슬롯사이트™s leave to undergo a gender reassignment surgery. A panel of doctors evaluated his case to see whether he was medically and mentally fit to go in for surgery.

A doctor at St. George슬롯사이트™s Hospital who was following Lalita슬롯사이트™s case said that the doctors would perform a multi-staged gender reconstructive surgery after an initial round of medical investigations and psychiatric tests.

Dr. Rajat Kapoor who will handle the plastic surgery says that currently, Lalita슬롯사이트™s genitals look like that of a woman. He also has to urinate standing. Skin and tissues around his thighs and genitals will be used to craft male genitalia, which will allow him to urinate while standing.

According to the doctors, the surgery might take three to six months, depending how fast the tissues mature and heal. After creating a penis, the doctors will work towards creating a scrotal for him. A hair transplant procedure will also be carried out to give Lalita a beard.

A doctor from JJ Hospital who evaluated Lalita슬롯사이트™s case said that a karyotyping test had been performed, which checks the number and structure of a person's chromosomes to detect abnormalities. Ideally, this test should have been performed during Lalita슬롯사이트™s birth, when the abnormality was first detected.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on May 23, 2018 10:22 AM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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