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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 ...
In 1971, Roberto Farina performed Brazil's first male-to-female gender-affirming surgery. [ 36 ] In 1984 , Jalma Jurado developed a new surgical technique, which he used in surgeries for more than 500 trans women in Brazil and from around the world.
Mela Habijan, the 2020 winner of the Miss Trans Global contest. Transgender women (often shortened to trans women) are women who were assigned male at birth.Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth). [1]
Meet Sona Avedian, a 33-year-old former marine, who recently transitioned from male to female in an inspiring and beautiful transformation.
Here are 12 of the most emotive, effective, and educational films ever made about the transgender experience.
Feminizing hormone therapy is a medical treatment for transgender women to develop female secondary sexual characteristics.
[183] [184] Though second-wave feminism argued for the sex and gender distinction, some feminists believed there was a conflict between transgender identity and the feminist cause; e.g., they believed that male-to-female transition abandoned or devalued female identity and that transgender people embraced traditional gender roles and ...
Bowers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and grew up in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, as one of four siblings.At the age of 19, she hitchhiked to San Diego intending to begin her gender transition, but was unable to afford surgeries.