A would-be woman surnamed Chen arrives at a plastic hospital in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province where she will take a second-stage transsexual surgery December 12, 2006.

A woman cuddles her husband, a would-be woman surnamed Chen (L), before Chen takes a second-stage transsexual surgery at a plastic hospital in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province December 12, 2006.

A woman looks at her husband, a would-be woman surnamed Chen (bottom), after a transsexual surgery on Chen at a plastic hospital in Shenyang, Liaoning Province December 12, 2006.

(China Daily December 13, 2006)