What is transgender surgery?
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
SOME FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Male-to-Female Transgender Surgery?
If you are having male to female transgender surgery, you will first undergo feminizing hormone therapy to stimulate female characteristics like breast growth, fat and muscle distribution, a higher-pitched voice and a feminine pattern of hair with inhibited facial hair growth.
Trans women often begin their physical transformation with breast implants, facial feminization surgery, and implants in the gluteal, hip and thigh area.
What is The Procedure?
The surgeon makes an incision into the scrotum, pulls back a flap of skin is and removes the testes. The next step involves shortening the urethra. The surgeon then removes the penis and uses the excess skin to create female genitalia: the labia and a vagina. Your prostate will not be removed.
What is Female-to-Male Transgender Surgery
What is The Procedure?
In female-to-male surgery there is the more difficult challenge of creating a functioning penis using smaller clitoral tissue available in the female genitals.
In this procedure, the surgeon first removes the uterus and the ovaries. The penis is created from the clitoris, which will have been enlarged by hormone treatment. The surgeon will then perform tissue grafts, using tissue from other parts of the body, and insert an erectile prosthetic.
Female-to-male transgender surgery, the surgeon will also remove breast tissue and excess skin, repositioning the nipples and areolae.