Sex Change In The City
Thursday, 4th November 1971
Kandang Kerbau Hospital, located near Little India, successfully carried out a second sex change operation. The operation was performed by a team of doctors – which included a psychiatrist – headed by Prof S. S. Ratnam of the University of Singapore’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The patient was a 25-year-old bachelor who was said to be working in the hotel industry. The first sex change operation was successfully carried out in Singapore in July 1971.