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Volume 34 Issue 06 |
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Sunday, Nov 22, 2009
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Pioneering gender reassignment surgeon passed away |
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| Pioneering gender reassignment surgeon passed away | |
| "The news of Dr. [Stanley] Biber's death is heartbreaking... This is certainly a profound change-moment in our modern Transgender history... a moment Dr. Biber helped make a reality," said Seattle's resident Marsha Botzer, Task Force board co-chair.
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force mourns the death of Dr. Stanley Biber, a small-town family doctor from mining and cattle country who became a pioneer in the area of sex-reassignment surgery, performing an estimated 5,000 of these life-changing operations over three decades. Dr. Biber died earlier this week at the age of 82. Dr. Biber lived on his ranch in Trinidad, a small southern Colorado city along the Santa Fe Trail. In 1969, a female acquaintance of Dr. Biber's asked him whether he would perform her sex-reassignment surgery. It was an era when very few surgeons in North America were performing such operations. Dr. Biber agreed, marking the beginning of a legacy. Statement by Marsha Botzer, Board Co-Chair of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: "The news of Dr. Biber's death is heartbreaking - I spent many months visiting and learning from Dr. Biber in the early 1980s, and have worked with and respected him ever since. He was a man who brought courage, intelligence and outstanding surgical skill together in a combination that allowed him to perform the most delicate surgery in the morning, face any and all questions in the afternoon, and smile joyfully over a convivial dinner party in the evening - a Renaissance man in the south of Colorado. "This is certainly a profound change-moment in our modern Transgender history, a moment separating the great struggles of the past and the possibilities of a future - a moment Dr. Biber helped make a reality. "The Task Force is very proud to be part of both the powerful history and this exciting future, with our many years of support for the Transgender community and our current Transgender Civil Rights Project. "The Task Force honors Dr. Stanley H. Biber. He would certainly tell us to persevere, to mourn the dead and fight with all our strength for the living." Founded in 1973, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation (the Task Force) was the first national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization and remains the movement's leading voice for freedom, justice and equality. A Task Force press release |
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