Scrub tech Everett Robertson, left, assists Dr. Marci Bowers, right, perform the three-hour gender reassignment surgery (GRS) on Dr. Laura Ellis, at the Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, CO.
Since taking over the practice from GRS pioneer, Dr. Stanley Biber, in 2003, Dr. Bowers, heself a transgender woman, has performed nearly 200 male-to-female GRS. The surgery costs $15,500, and in virtually all cases the patients report a fully functional, orgasmic vagina.