Each year hundreds of Indian girls are being operated on to turn them into boys with the help of corrupt doctors in Indore.

Indian girls as young as one to five are the victims of the sex change operation as they are pumped full of hormone drugs.

Female infanticide is not uncommon in India as the country places more importance on sons and daughters are often seen as a great financial burden to the family because of their education and especially marriage where the girls' parents have to pay huge amount of dowries to the bridegrooms' families. Sometimes the dowries can run up to $100,000 or more.

Hence it is not surprising to see girls' parents in India turn to doctors to operate on their daughters and change their sex.

The sex change operations, however, are not without complications and pose the danger of turning the girls into freaks or misfits in the society. These girls, even if they survive the trauma of the operation, suffer from infertility and impotency as the implanted organs are not capable of producing hormones.

According to medical experts, sex change operations are carried out generally only to cure Gender Identity Dysphoria (GID) and the Indian government has acknowledged the problem.

Indore's genitoplasty experts reveal that each clinic and hospital in Indore has transformed 200 to 300 girls into 'boys' so far. Relatively inexpensive cost - about $3,300 - and vague laws regarding such practices have lured greedy parents even more. Indore’s success stories on the sex change have now attracted parents from other cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, according to Hindustan Times.

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Granting that India is a society where parents sometimes willingly kill their girl child, it is not too shocking to believe the news, according to Hindustan Times. India places a strong value on sons and daughters are often seen as a great financial burden to the family for their education and especially marriage in paying dowries.

The sex change operations are not without complications and pose the danger of turning the girls into freaks or misfits in the society. These girls, even if they survive the trauma of the operation, suffer from infertility and impotency as the implanted organs are not capable of producing hormones.

Indore's genitoplasty experts reveal that each clinic and hospital in Indore has transformed 200 to 300 girls into 'boys' so far. Relatively inexpensive cost, Rs 1.5 lakh (about $3,300) and vague laws regarding such practices lure greedy parents even more. Indore’s success stories on the sex change have now attracted parents from other cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, according to Hindustan Times.

Although doctors conducting the operations claimed the internal sex organs of these girls did not match their external genitalia, they have allegedly misidentified children’s conditions for sex reassignment surgeries. Importantly, sex change operations must never be done recklessly but only to cure Gender Identity Dysphoria (GID), according to experts.

“Our country has a big problem of sex ratio and son preference of parents,” the Hindustan Times quoted IMA secretary general Dr DR Rai as saying. India's great gender imbalance marks 7 million more boys than girls younger than six. To avoid common practices of abortion of female fetuses the government has banned sex determination tests during pregnancy.

India's union ministry of women and child development is exploring the possibility of forming a law to deal with sex change surgeries performed on children.