An Argentine teen has successfully undergone gender reassignment surgery after winning a court battle to do so as a minor:

A judge in 2004 ruled the teen had to wait until age 21 for the operation, but the parents appealed successfully, swaying a court panel to issue a decision in September authorizing surgery as a minor.

The teenager was operated on at a private clinic in La Plata, near the Argentine capital. Courts have withheld the teen’s name because she is still a minor and local media have not published the identity.

The teen, who was born with male genitalia, had to convince courts that the surgery did not constitute mutilation. Unlike paying money to get your nose broken or to have silicone pillows shoved into your chest, you mean?:

The teenager has a condition called gender dysphoria, doctors and experts ruled, saying she was born with a man’s body but is psychologically a woman.

In order to undergo surgery to acquire female genitalia, Portatadino said an exemption was necessary from Argentine law prohibiting “mutilation.”

Welcome to the ranks of the vagina’d, Nameless Argentine Teen!

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