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The Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic was made up of two plastic surgeons, two psychiatrists, two psychologists, a gynecologist, a urologist, and a pediatrician. In 1997, Sergeant Sylvia Durand became the first serving member of the Canadian Forces to transition from male to female, and became the first member of any military worldwide to ...
The procedure can help transgender men transition physically to their self-affirmed gender. Surgeries for female-to-male transgender patients have similarities to both gynecomastia surgeries for cisgender men, [ 2 ] breast reduction surgery for gigantomastia , and the separate mastectomies done for breast cancer. [ 3 ]
Seeing himself as a "woman trapped in a man's body", Mr. Garrison decides to have a sex reassignment operation, performed by Dr. Biber of the Trinidad Medical Center (accompanied by a video clip depicting an actual sex reassignment surgery). He is later introduced as "Mrs. Garrison" at a supermarket.
The author said he went to the gynecologist in 2017 and experienced medical transphobia from his provider.
In 1951, Harold Gillies, a plastic surgeon active in World War II, worked to develop the first technique for female-to-male gender-affirming surgery, producing a technique that has become a modern standard, called phalloplasty. [35] Phalloplasty is a cosmetic procedure that produces a visual penis out of grafted tissue from the patient.
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Gender-affirming hormones can be prescribed by a wide range of medical providers including, but not limited to, primary care physicians, endocrinologists, and gynecologists. [2] Requirements generally include a minimum age; according to the Endocrine Society , there has been little research on taking cross-sex hormones before the age of about 14.