Stanley Biber, who gained an international reputation as a sex-change surgeon until he stopped doing surgery in , has closed his Trinidad, Colorado small office practice because he cannot get malpractice insurance. Biber, 81, said he had been seeing a few longtime patients for minor ailments until Dec. He said Colorado is one of eight states that require doctors to have malpractice insurance. Biber said insurers refused to renew his malpractice coverage in He said they gave no reason but he suspected it was because of his age.
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Ridley, like Dr. Marci Bowers who performed the surgery, is a gynecologist and surgeon who was a navy officer for 16 years and was married three times as a man. Ridley grew up in East Texas where, as Clark Ridley, she secretly wore panties as a boy, even as she attended the Virginia Military Institute, a prestigious breeding ground for future military leaders. Kuester is a lesbian massage therapist who met Ridley two months ago on an internet dating service. Bowers is known worldwide for her transgender surgery, but is just another local in Trinidad. Marci Bowers applies lipstick in her well-decorated home located in hills above downtwon Trinidad before heading to work. The small Colorado town of Trinidad has more than three decades of experience with lantern-jawed, 6-foot-3 women in magenta tube tops and strappy platform sandals passing through.
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Jeff Brady. The king of sex-change procedures has died. Stanley Biber performed more than 5, such operations over more than 30 years.
Steve: I had to get my map out to see where this was. Looks like a nice town, and probably safe too. You are finding the neatest places ride safely bob Riding the Wet Coast. Interesting story guys, never heard that.