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The number of sex change operations in Britain has nearly trebled in just nine years. A new report has let out the fact that 143 Britons changed sex in the UK in 2009, as compared to a mere 54 in 2000. The astounding numbers say that 853 men got themselves into the fairer sex. While only 12 women underwent a surgery to turn into males. Lauren Harries is one of the Britons to go under the knife. The 32-year-old had a sex-swap in 2001. 2004 Big Brother winner, 33-year-old Nadia Almada also got famous after getting a sex-swap, reports The Daily Star. The numbers also inform that the average age for a man to undergo a sec change operation is 42. Operations on the National Health Services, which cost about 10,000 pounds, became just in 1999 after the Appeal Court declared that people who believed they were born into the wrong body were suffering from a legal illness.

Sex-swap ops in Britain trebled in 9 yrs