DenverPost.com – By Douglas Brown – Denver Post Staff Writer
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.
The town’s deep and unlikely attachment to the procedure that turns men into women could have ended in 2003, when Dr. Stanley Biber, a one-man industry, put down his scalpel after 35 years of performing his signature surgery.
But Marci Bowers, a gynecological surgeon in Seattle, decided to train with Biber shortly before he retired.
And that’s when sex-change in Trinidad moved from a cottage industry into the big time.