Maxwell Zachs is 25-years old and was born female. He is a citizen of London, England, has degrees in English literature, indigenous studies and constitutional law, and is a rabbinical student at a yeshiva in Sweden. Three years ago he began his transitioned to male. He began testosterone treatments in 2009 and had a double mastectomy and chest contouring in Thailand in 2010. He recently was one of the cast of England’s My Transsexual Summer
Maxwell recently filed a petition at Change.org calling for the World Health Organization to eliminate transsexualism from its list of mental disorders in the International Classification of Diseases. He says that the designation only contributes to discrimination.
I know there is concern about Change.org. I’m not the person who set up the petition, which last I checked had 46,814 supporters.
If you would like to get to know Max Zachs better, he has a blog.
There is nothing wrong with me. I am perfectly healthy, I just happen to be transgender.
–Maxwell Zachs