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Thailand has issued rules making sex change surgery more difficult — including a requirement that potential candidates cross-dress for a year — over fears that some patients are rushing into the operation, a medical association said Thursday.

泰國醫(yī)學(xué)協(xié)會于周四稱，泰國針對變性手術(shù)頒布的最新法規(guī)使得在該國進行變性手術(shù)將更加困難。新法規(guī)包括要求申請者變裝一年，以防止一些手術(shù)者倉促決定變性。

文中的sex change surgery就是指“變性手術(shù)”。在泰國，transsexual and transgender(易性癖者和變性人)非常普遍，在公司、cosmetics counter(化妝品柜臺)、red-light district(紅燈區(qū))都可以見到他們的身影。此外，泰國每年還會舉辦transgender beauty pageant(變性人選美比賽)。

根據(jù)此次規(guī)定，sex change surgery(變性手術(shù))申請者還要進行術(shù)前mental evaluation(精神評估)和術(shù)后follow-up visit(跟蹤回訪)。而長期的cross-dresser(變裝者)可以免去one-year waiting period(一年的等候期)。