• Specialist appointments are usually available within 24 hours of contact. In most "western" countries you would need to wait weeks to see a generalist and often several months later, get referred for a specialist appointment. Unless the required treatment is life threatening, waiting lists of several years are typical.
• Cost of surgery is 1/3 to 1/4 of what you would pay elsewhere. In many countries, neither govenment or private insurance would cover this type of treatment, even if it were available in a timely fashion.
• The Thai specialist has usually been trained in the US or equivalent.

Newspaper Articles:

• Thailand, setting the standard for sex changes - Yahoo News, Dec. 12, 2004