The 61-year-old called the “father of South Korean transgender people”
can be considered a rebel as he constantly helps people who want to have
a sex change and has carried out over 320 sex change operations over
the past 28 years, widely believed to be the most by any single doctor
in the country.
Dr. Kim Seok-Kwun who started performing sex change surgeries in 1980
says 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.
He said, “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?”
Do you agree with the doctor?
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