A 31-year-old woman from Lucknow has approached the country's first Gender Reassignment and Cosmetology Outpatient Department (OPD) at St George Hospital, to seek a sex-change operation as she wants to marry her lesbian partner.

While she is yet to undergo counselling and other key procedures, Dr Rajat Kapoor, the man behind the OPD, has said that if a person seeks sex change only for love, the surgery cannot be performed.