A 50-year-old man meets media at a hospital in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, upon recovering from facial plastic surgeries on November 28, 2006. He said he was content with the new feminine look, and would go through the following plastic operations to change his gender.

A 50-year-old man puts on makeup as he meets journalists at a hospital in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, upon recovering from facial plastic surgeries on November 28, 2006.

The man tries a skirt his daughter bought him in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in this file photo. Dreaming of being a woman for decades, the man, determined to take a transsexual surgery, has forced his family to accede by attemping suicides.

The man who is determined to transform his gender talks with a doctor at a plastic hospital before taking a transsexual operation in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province in this undated photo. 

(China Daily November 30, 2006)