. >> reporter: at 48 years young christine kissler says she's finally able to be herself. >> i am a woman. >> reporter: christine says she has identified as female since the age of 13 and dressed as a woman in college. and repressed it for years with alcohol and drugs. >> which really is a hard thing when you are torn apart like a rag doll. >> reporter: tuesday was the day agony ended, doctor christine mcgin had performed a thousand regender assignment surgery wrist and she was scheduled to perform her operation until the parents, claude and ingrid kissler traveled from yeah to the doctor's on to stop it. >> they filed court papers a alleging christine born a boy named christopher suffers from mild retardation, suicidal thoughts and serious medical conditions that make surgery to risky. they say christine is not mentally stable and they want to be named guardians so they can get her treatment. >> this isn't a competency hearing, guardianship hearing, thinks a difference of opinion hearing. >> reporter: christine's attorneys say using the court's to stop gender reassignment the is unheard

forty-eight year-old christine kissler was born male but identified as female since she was a child.he was supposed to get reassignment surgery this week but her parents filed a court petition claiming she was not mentally stable enough to make that decision. she feels the surgery means life or death for her. >> i necessity there are some risks, i might die from this but it is worth dying. i would rather die then with the the way i was. >> judge ruled in christine's favor saying she appears to understand risks involved with that particular surgery. >>> are you okay? >> you're looking at a real life water rescue, a huntington state beach in california, this is all caught on a life guard's go pro, and you can see him paddling toward a drowning woman screaming for help, intense moments there. the the swimmer was caught in a strong rip current and life guard, gives the with man a buoy, and then pulls her to shore. she was one of 500 people rescued last week even. a a lot of people in the same situation. life guards say most of the rescues were people in waist deep water. it doesn't have