Gender reassignment therapy

Gender reassignment therapy is an umbrella term for all medical procedures regarding gender reassignment of both transgender and intersexual people. (Sometimes also called sex reassignment, as it alters physical sexual characteristics to be more in line with the individual's psychological/social gender identity, rather than vice versa.)

Related Topics:
Transgender - Intersexual

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Gender reassignment therapy consists of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), various surgical procedures (see below), and epilation for transwomen, that is permanent hair removal on the face and body is accomplished with electrolysis or laser hair removal.

Related Topics:
Hormone replacement therapy - Epilation - Transwomen - Hair removal - Electrolysis - Laser hair removal

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Sexual reassignment surgery is used for both the (re-)construction of male or female genitals specifically, this is also called genital reassignment surgery, or, often, for any surgical procedures which will reshape a male body into a body with a female appearance or vice versa

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• For transmen, who transition from female to male:
• Sexual reassignment surgery female-to-male
• Mastectomy is the removal of female breasts and, in case of gender reassignment, the shaping of a male contoured chest.
• Hysterectomy is the removal of female internal sex organs.
• Metoidioplasty is the construction of a small penis out of the clitoris which has been enlarged by HRT
• Phalloplasty is specifically the construction of a neo-penis in transmen
• For transwomen, who transition from male to female:
• Sexual reassignment surgery male-to-female
• Vaginoplasty The shaping of a neo-vagina
• Penile inversion - the most common form of genital reassignment surgery.
• Colovaginoplasty - a particular form of genital reassignment surgery.
• Breast augmentation is the enlargement of breasts, which can be necessary if HRT did not yield satisfactory results.
• Facial feminization surgery
 
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