"Who Says I'm Sick" is a book that creates an understanding of the trend in society that transgender women are women, and they have been born with a disease of penis tumor attached to it and can be cured with sex reassignment surgery only. The author is a transgender woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery herself and was ready to face all the challenges related to being transgender in the binary world.
"Chim Sara" or "Sujinrat Prachathai" is considered the first Thai person to dare to undergo gender reassignment surgery abroad. In England, when she was 23 years old, she went to work as a waitress. Being penniless, one day, she read a tabloid newspaper that was announcing a recruitment for someone who wanted to have free sex reassignment surgery without paying a penny.
The application was based on a procedure of over a hundred people applying for surgery, but they only recruited 7 people, one of whom was her.
After a while, she found out that in New Zealand she could solve her problems. After talking to a lawyer there, she was told that she was a transgender woman whose legal sex was male but she did not give up. In 2000, she was recognized as a woman and became the first Thai transgender woman to have changed her legal status.
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