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retain their vagina (whether before or after further genital reconstruction,) have a strong family history of cancers of the breast, ovary, or uterus (endometrium,) have a personal history of gynecological cancer or significant dysplasia on a Pap smear. develop vaginal bleeding post-operation and hormone therapy
Ovarian tissue banking – Ovarian tissue is frozen after oophorectomy. Even after long-term androgen therapy, ovaries usually retain usable follicles. Eventual use of frozen ovaries will require replantation into the transgender man for stimulation and harvest, but may eventually be possible in a lab as techniques for tissue culture improve.
If an individual had previously been taking hormone and/or hormone-blocking medications, modifications to their medication would be needed after the procedure. Any androgen-blocking medications, such as spironolactone or cyproterone , are stopped, and estrogen hormones can be resumed at the doctor's discretion.
“Ovaries make testosterone,” says Kelly Casperson, MD, a urologist, sex expert, and author of You Are Not Broken. “Women have three to four times the amount of testosterone in their body ...
Oophorectomy (/ ˌ oʊ. ə f ə ˈ r ɛ k t ə m i /; from Greek ᾠοφόρος, ōophóros, 'egg-bearing' and ἐκτομή, ektomḗ, 'a cutting out of'), historically also called ovariotomy, is the surgical removal of an ovary or ovaries. [1] The surgery is also called ovariectomy, but this term is mostly used in reference to non-human ...
At the age of 12, Patrick Mitchell decided to transition into a female, only to change his mind two years later. Uncomfortable in his own skin, the Australian school boy begged his mother to allow ...
That includes women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and those who have received high doses of human chorionic gonadotropic (hCG) injections; hCG is the hormone that helps increase the ...
Lili Elbe was the first well-known recipient of male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, in Germany in 1930, the first being Dora Richter. She was the subject of four surgeries: one for orchiectomy, one to transplant an ovary, one for penectomy, and one for vaginoplasty and a uterus transplant. However, she died three months after her last ...