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综合Cloze 14-2 Sex Change Surgery Guidelines Drafted China is set to issue its first guideline on sex-change surgery, according to a ___51___ put on the website of the Ministry of Health yesterday. The Ministry is now soliciting public and professional ___52___ on the draft guideline. The coming guideline aims to regulate and standardize sex reassignment surgery, part of a treatment for gender identity disorder in transsexuals. Experts ___53___ nearly 2,000 Chinese have undergone sex-change surgery while 100,000 to 400,000 are still considering it. However, no official number is available. In the draft, the MOH sets minimum ___54___ for both surgical candidates and medical institutions. Candidates for the surgery must be older than 20 and single, the draft guideline said. They are also ___55___ to prove a persistent desire for a sex-change, to live for at least five consecutive years full-time in the new gender ___56___, and to engage in mental therapy for at least one year. Before surgery can take place, a candidate must receive a recommendation for the operation from a __57__ after an appropriate series of therapy sessions. Also, several legal requirements must be met before the procedure. The candidate must provide proof from police that he or she has not had any ___58___ offenses in the past. Police must also agree to change the sex status on the identity card of the ___59___ receiver before the operation can take place. The advent of such a guideline is believed to show that the government is ___60___ about the needs of a relatively small number of people who want to change sex. But doctors also warn that all stakeholders, including the hospitals and prospective receivers, should be highly ___61___ about this surgery. The operation is more than a medical procedure due to its huge social and legal ___62___. Doctors should make it clear to those seeking sex-change surgeries that the option always remains to continue to live in the ___63___ role. The guideline