Associated Press

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A 17-year-old Argentine has undergone surgery to become a female only months after winning a court battle in the first case of its kind involving a minor in Argentina, a representative for the teen said Dec. 4.

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.

“Everything went perfectly,” said Alejandra Victoria Portatadino, who represented the teenager in court and is also legal counsel for the Argentine Homosexual Community, a GLBT advocacy group. “Now we just need to ask to get her legal identification changed to reflect her name as a woman.”