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  2. The Comprehensive Guide to Gender Reassignment Surgery: Risks and

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  1. Gender Affirmation Surgery: What Happens, Benefits & Recovery

    These effects extend to your desire to have biological children. Many surgeries cause temporary or permanent infertility. Your provider will explain fertility preservation options, ... Gender reassignment is an outdated term for gender affirmation surgery. The new language, "gender affirmation," is more accurate in terms of what the surgery ...

  2. Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta

    Introduction. Discordance or misalignment between gender identity and sex assigned at birth can translate into disproportionate discomfort, configuring the definition of gender dysphoria. 1-3 This population has increased risk of psychiatric conditions, including depression, substance abuse disorders, self-injury, and suicide, compared with cis-gender individuals. 4,5 Approximately 0.6% of ...

  3. Vaginoplasty for Gender Affirmation

    Gender affirming surgery can be used to create a vulva and vagina. It involves removing the penis, testicles and scrotum. During a vaginoplasty procedure, tissue in the genital area is rearranged to create a vaginal canal (or opening) and vulva (external genitalia), including the labia. A version of vaginoplasty called vulvoplasty can create a ...

  4. Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment

    Hence, sex reassignment surgery in Sweden requires (i) a transsexualism diagnosis and (ii) permission from the National Board of Health and Welfare. ... of a gender identity disorder diagnosis after changed sex status over before was to avoid overestimating person-years at risk of sex-reassigned person. Using these criteria, a total of 804 ...

  5. Analyzing Your Gender Reassignment Surgery Options: Risks & Rewards

    The WPATH's SOC 8 reviews the medical research literature around the long-term effects of gender-affirming surgery on trans and non-binary patients. Gender-affirming procedures report greater satisfaction and lower regret rates compared to similar cosmetic and reconstructive procedures performed in cisgender patients. Improved mental health.

  6. Transsexual attractions and sexual reassignment surgery: Risks and

    Abstract. Transsexual issues and sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) are receiving a great deal of attention and support in the media, schools, and government. Given the early age at which youth seek treatment for transsexual attractions (TSA) and gender dysphoria and given the serious risks associated with such treatment, it is essential that ...

  7. Gender Affirmation Surgery: A Guide

    A gender affirmation surgery allows individuals, such as those who identify as transgender or nonbinary, to change one or more of their sex characteristics. This type of procedure offers a person ...

  8. Feminizing surgery

    Overview. Feminizing surgery, also called gender-affirming surgery or gender-confirmation surgery, involves procedures that help better align the body with a person's gender identity. Feminizing surgery includes several options, such as top surgery to increase the size of the breasts. That procedure also is called breast augmentation.

  9. When Transgender Kids Transition, Medical Risks are Both Known ...

    New medical options are allowing transgender children to start the process of transitioning at younger and younger ages. But doctors tread carefully, lacking research on some of the long-term effects.

  10. Gender Affirming Surgeries and Complications EMRA

    Masculinizing Procedures. "Mansculpture". Some trans men feel a sense of dysphoria about their hips, thighs, stomach, or other areas and wish to get liposuction to create a more masculine body contour. Complications are similar to any other liposuction treatment, and include bruising, pain, bleeding, and infection. Hysterectomy.

  11. Frontiers

    Purpose: Gender dysphoria (GD) is an incompatibility between biological sex and personal gender identity; individuals harbor an unalterable conviction that they were born in the wrong body, which causes personal suffering. In this context, surgery is imperative to achieve a successful gender transition and plays a key role in alleviating the associated psychological discomfort. In the current ...

  12. Feminizing hormone therapy

    Care at. Mayo Clinic. Feminizing hormone therapy typically is used by transgender women and nonbinary people to produce physical changes in the body that are caused by female hormones during puberty. Those changes are called secondary sex characteristics. This hormone therapy helps better align the body with a person's gender identity.

  13. Ethical Issues in Gender-Affirming Care for Youth

    Pediatrics (2018) 142 (6): e20181537. Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) youth who suffer from gender dysphoria are at a substantially elevated risk of numerous adverse physical and psychosocial outcomes compared with their cisgender peers. Innovative treatment options used to support and affirm an individual's preferred gender ...

  14. Health concerns for transgender people

    Because of gender minority stress, transgender people may be at higher risk of: Emotional and psychological abuse. Physical and sexual violence. Sexually transmitted infections. Substance misuse. Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide.

  15. The Gender Reassignment Controversy

    When he was 14, Reimer began the process of reassignment to being a male. As an adult, he married a woman but depression and drug abuse ensued, culminating in suicide at the age of 38 (1). Money's ...

  16. Gender dysphoria

    Treatment Gender dysphoria. Treatment. Treatment for gender dysphoria aims to help people live the way they want to, in their preferred gender identity or as non-binary. What this means will vary from person to person, and is different for children, young people and adults. Waiting times for referral and treatment are currently long.

  17. Systematic Review of the Long-Term Effects of Transgender Hormone

    1. Introduction. The term "transgender" describes a population experiencing incongruence between their physical sex characteristics (assigned gender) and their gender identity (the extent to which people experience themselves to be like others of one gender) [].In some instances, as a result of the incongruence between assigned gender and gender identity, an individual can suffer distress ...

  18. Proposed sex education guidance in England goes against evidence and

    Research has found that women who received inadequate sex education as children were more likely to have experienced childhood sexual abuse. And evidence suggests that children who have received ...

  19. Neglecting sex and gender in research is a public-health risk

    Yet, when it comes to the risk of dying, social and environmental factors — shaped by gender — also seem to be important. Tobacco consumption increases a person's risk of having a heart ...

  20. New RSHE guidance: What it means for sex education lessons in schools

    The facts about biological sex and gender reassignment will still be taught. The guidance for schools also contains a new section on transparency with parents, making it absolutely clear that parents have a legal right to know what their children are being taught in RSHE and can request to see teaching materials.

  21. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says gender identity 'should not be

    Ms Keegan said while gender reassignment should be taught, "schools should not teach about the contested issue of gender identity, including that gender is a spectrum". ... While the risks of ...

  22. Recordings Reveal How Gender Doctors See Sex-Change Options

    Megan Brock / @MegEBrock / Kate Anderson / @kliseanderson / May 15, 2024. Recordings from meetings of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health reveal doctors pushing risky sex ...

  23. England set to ban gender identity teaching in schools

    Harriet Cass, the retired pediatrician who led the four-year review into gender identity services, called the "toxicity" of the debate "exceptional." "At secondary school (11-18 years) pupils will learn about legally 'protected' characteristics, such as sexual orientation and gender reassignment," said the Department for Education statement.

  24. Hormonal Gender Reassignment Treatment for Gender Dysphoria

    For persons with gender dysphoria, treatment with cross-sex hormones delivers a sense of identity. However, since gender-affirming hormone therapy has a significant effect on a person's hormonal balance, it is associated with a risk of adverse effects which is particularly high in the event of unsupervised treatment or overdosing.

  25. What Are the Symptoms of High Blood Pressure in Women?

    If you have undergone any form of gender reassignment therapy, hormonal therapies can have an impact on various physiological processes, including your blood pressure. ... Women are also at risk for high blood pressure when hormone levels change, like during pregnancy or menopause. See a healthcare provider for regular health screenings and ...

  26. England set to ban gender identity teaching in schools

    Agence France-Presse. Children up to the age of 18 at schools in England will not be taught gender identity under government proposals published Thursday, amid growing concern in the UK and ...

  27. Association Between Gender-Affirming Surgeries and Mental Health

    The observed associations between gender-affirming surgery, psychological distress, and suicide risk reinforce previous small-sample studies suggesting that gender-affirming surgery improves mental health and quality of life among TGD people. 1,12 Our findings also reflect evidence from qualitative studies indicating perceived mental health ...

  28. Sunak defends sex education plans as ban on teaching gender identity

    Gender identity "should not be taught in schools at any age'', she told MPs. Labour MP Nadia Whittome criticised the plans, saying sex and relationship education was already taught in an age ...

  29. The Bioethical Dilemma of Gender-Affirming Therapy in Children and

    Summary: This article examines GAT, the paradigm used in treating individuals identifying as transgender, through the lens of an EDMF. Each stage of this widely proposed treatment - social affirmation, pubertal blockade, administration of cross-sex hormones, and sex reassignment surgery - poses harms and risks that are not fully disclosed to minors and families, creating a bioethical dilemma.