Sentences with phrase «of sex reassignment surgery»

Ebershoff's historical novel is loosely based on the life of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery in the 1920s.

Director Tom Hooper takes on the story, which is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by David Ebershoff which centers around Lili Elbe, a Danish transgender woman and one of the first identifiable recipients of sex reassignment surgery.

Based on David Ebershoff's novel of the same name, the movie narrates the life of Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne), one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery.

Their story had passed through names like Tomas Alfredson and Lasse Hallstrom, with the roles of Lili and Gerda being slated for actresses such as Charlize Theron and Rachel Weisz, but ultimately Eddie Redmayne wound up in the part of Lili, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, with Alicia Vikander as her supportive wife Gerda.

(Consider also the film that would yet nobble it of a Jury Award, João Pedro Rodrigues» Morrer Como Um Homem [To Die Like a Man]: early on in that overesteemed, if beautifully lensed, potboiler, a discussion about the merits of sex reassignment surgery occurs while one of the two trans - characters involved deliberates over whether to buy some orchids... Always with the fucking orchids!)

Not exact matches

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

He divorced his wife of twenty - seven years and underwent what the Atlanta paper calls «sex - reassignment surgery.»

Undaunted, the supposed guardians of civil liberties — except the free exercise of religion, it seems — recently brought a case against a Catholic hospital for refusing to permit doctors to perform an elective hysterectomy as part of a sex - reassignment surgery.

In either case, he will most likely then be given a sex reassignment surgery and raised as a girl — which of course chromosomally and physiologically he will never actually be.

For instance, a previous study discovered significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter — and that female - to - male trans individuals who hadn't had sex reassignment surgery had white matter in these regions that more closely resembled a male brain.

A top priority, she recommends, is that all health care programs funded by the federal government be required to provide coverage of care — including sex reassignment surgery — while transgender patients make the physical transition to the sex matching their gender identity.

Cervical cancer can still occur in FTM transgender men, the majority of whom do not undergo complete sex reassignment surgery or undergo total hysterectomy later in life.

That's a bit of an understatement for Redmayne, who picked up the best actor Oscar for portraying Stephen Hawking in 2014's The Theory of Everything and is already getting some awards season buzz for his role in The Danish Girl, in which he plays Lili Elbe, one of the first known people to receive sex reassignment surgery.

At a time when our culture and society is becoming far more accepting and understanding of the LGBT community, here comes the story of one of the first trans women to undergo sex reassignment surgery in The Danish Girl.

Adapted from David Ebershoff «s novel of the same name, The Danish Girl focuses on the relationship between Einer Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), later Lili Elebe, one of the first men to undergo a sex reassignment surgery and her wife Greta (Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and relationship evolves as they navigate Lili's journey as a transgender pioneer.

Tom Hooper's just - sophisticated - enough re-telling of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, is all about the desire of female forms; a typical scene finds Elbe watching a peep show, copying a stripper's movements until she notices through the glass, and the two enter into a mirror pas de deux.

Adding some depth in limited roles are Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) as Hans, Einar's childhood friend all grown up, and Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others) as the pioneering doctor who performs the sex reassignment surgeries that physically transition Einar into Lili.

The Danish Girl, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, and is directed by Tom Hooper, chronicles key events in the life of Elbe — formerly known as Einar Wegener — who is one of the first people known to have undergone sex reassignment surgery.

Company president Alan Donnes — who was a writer and producer on National Lampoon - branded fare like Another Dirty Movie and the «Andrew McCarthy is accidentally given sex reassignment surgery» movie Snatched, before stepping into the president's chair in 2012 — issued a statement shortly after the new series was announced, saying, «Their proposed show can be about a lot of things, but it sure won't be about anything owned by, related to, or branded by National Lampoon.»

When Lili is given the chance for sex - reassignment surgery («this is not my body, professor, please take it away»), she is told that the two operations needed to make him fully a woman have a high risk of «failure, infections, complications».

The details: An adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel, itself a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Lili Elbe, the transgender artist and model who became one of the first people to receive sex reassignment surgery.

Adapted from David Ebershoff's novel, it is loosely based on the life of Lili Elbe, who died in 1933 after one of the first sex - reassignment surgeries.

It was also reported that Charlize Theron would star alongside Nicole Kidman in The Danish Girl, the story of the first known person to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

His determination to change his fate, first by dressing as a woman, then taking on a new identity as Lili Elbe and becoming one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery, is the subject of «The Danish Girl,» a new movie based on David Ebershoff's 2000 novel.

In its presentation, The Danish Girl — Tom Hooper's portrait of Lili Elbe, a transgender woman and the first known recipient of sex - reassignment surgery — is a fairly standard coming - of - age story that follows Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerde (Alicia Vikander), bohemian painters in 1920s Copenhagen, who come to terms with Einar's gradual realization that he identifies as female.

And yet, The Danish Girl — a historical melodrama about one of the first male - to - female sex reassignment surgeries — is a relatively restrained and sensitive piece of work.

As Gerda attempts to come to grips with the change in her husband, the couple discovers a controversial doctor who claims he can change Einar to Lili permanently via surgery, making him the first subjects of a sex reassignment procedure.

In its presentation, The Danish Girl — Tom Hooper's portrait of Lili Elbe, a transgender woman and the first known recipient of sex - reassignment surgery — is a fairly standard coming - of - age story that follows Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerde (Alicia Vikan...

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Transsexuals experience what is known as gender dysphoria, which means they feel as though they are trapped in the body of the wrong sex.2 It is for this reason that transsexuals sometimes undergo sexual reassignment surgery in order to change their body's appearance to be consistent with their desired gender (case in point: Dancing with the Stars contestant Chaz Bono).