NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO. 365
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 08 MARCH 2013
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 6)
Mr M S F de Freitas (DA) to ask the Minister of Health:
How many people have had gender reassignment surgery in a public hospital
since 15 March 2004?
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REPLY:
The Department of Health does not keep a database of gender reassignment
surgical procedures that are performed in public sector facilities.
There are currently two public sector clinics in South Africa with
specialised and skilled healthcare providers that perform gender
reassignment surgical procedures and they are linked to the Universities of
Pretoria (UP) and of Cape Town (UCT).
Information at hand suggests that the UP clinic has performed more than a
hundred procedures since inception in 1990 and the UCT clinic more than 10
since 2009.
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