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There are a variety of genital surgeries available to trans women and transfeminine non-binary people. Genital surgery can be an effective way for an individual to ease or eliminate feelings of disconnection or discomfort with their natal genitals; for others, including those who do not feel strongly about their natal genitals, it can create feelings of connection or congruence with their ...
A transsexual person is someone who experiences a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex, and desires to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance (including gender affirming therapies, such as hormone replacement therapy and gender affirming surgery) to help them align their body with their identified sex or ...
Looking specifically at transsexual people's genital sensitivities, both trans men and trans women are capable of maintaining their genital sensitivities after gender-affirming surgery. However, these are counted upon the procedures and surgical tricks which are used to preserve the sensitivity.
Less than 1% of post-operative trans patients regret surgery. [44] Gender-affirming surgery alone may not eliminate dysphoria or suicidality, and some trans people may need further mental health care in addition to surgery. [45] Some researchers have expressed a need for further high-quality research on mental health outcomes following surgery ...
A transgender (often shortened to trans) person is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. [2] Often, transgender people desire medical assistance to medically transition from one sex to another; those who do may identify as transsexual.
TGI, standing for transgender, gender diverse, and intersex. [104] The term is also inclusive of people who identify as transsexual. [105] TGNC, standing for trans and gender nonconforming. [5] VSC, standing for variations in sex characteristics. An alternative acronym to describe intersex variations. [81]
In addition, a 2002 review of the literature reported that there is less than a 1% rate of regret, and a little more than a 1% rate of suicide, among post-operative transgender people; [13] for comparison, the rate of suicide in the general population is only about 1%, [14] while the suicide attempt rate of the transgender population as a whole ...
Edelman and Zimman associate this shift with trans men's willingness to refer to their genitals with both male and female terms, sometimes at the same time. [5] Often, from this perspective, the difference between a cisgender man's penis and a non-operative transgender man's clitoris is merely one of size, not of kind. [6]