What is gender reassignment surgery?
Gender reassignment surgery, sometimes called sex reassignment surgery, is performed to transition individuals with gender dysphoria to their desired gender.
People with gender dysphoria often feel that they were born in the wrong gender. A biological male may identify more as a female and vice versa.
- Surgery is typically the last step in the physical transition process, but it is not a decision to be made lightly.
- Many healthcare providers require patients to be formally diagnosed with gender dysphoria and undergo counseling to determine if they are truly ready to surgically transition.
- Patients usually undergo hormone therapy first. Hormones can suppress the secondary sex characteristics of the biological gender and make them appear more like their desired sex. For instance, women take androgens and start developing facial hair. Men take estrogens and anti-androgens to look more feminine.
- Surgeons may also require that patients live as their desired gender for at least one year. A man might dress as a woman traditionally does in the culture. Many men change their names and refer to themselves with female pronouns. Women transitioning to men would do the reverse.
Surgical transition may include several procedures.
- Males transitioning to females have their testicles and penis removed. The prostate gland may or may not be removed as well. Tissue from the penis is used to construct a vagina and clitoris. Labia – the “lips” surrounding the vagina – can be made from scrotal skin. The urethra (the tube from which urine leaves the body) is shortened.
- Many biological men also have facial feminization surgery to change the appearance of their lips, eyes, nose, or Adam’s apple.
- After surgery, patients use vaginal dilators to keep the new vagina open and flexible.
- Surgery for females transitioning to males is more complicated and expensive. The breasts, ovaries, and uterus are removed and the vagina is closed. A penis and scrotum may be made from other tissue. In some cases, a penile implant is used. The urethra is extended so that the patient can urinate while standing.
Continued psychotherapy is recommended for most patients as they adjust to their new bodies and lifestyles.
Not all people with gender dysphoria have surgery. Some feel comfortable living as the opposite gender without medical intervention. Others find that hormone therapy is sufficient for their personal needs.
If a boy feels emotionally like a girl, he may be having Gender Identity Disorder / Gender Dysphoria. In this, a male feels that he is a girl trapped in a male body. This can be corrected successfully with Gender Affirmation Surgery, also called for Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) or simply a sex change operation. Before these procedures, the candidate needs to be evaluated by our team including psychologist and endocrinologist.
This involves various surgical procedures to make you a complete female. The various procedures are:
Breast Augmentation – The breast size can be enhanced as per individual requirement giving an absolutely natural look. The result is rewarding giving natural looking, perkier and good shape breasts leading to tremendous boost up in self-esteem and confidence.
Procedure: This is done with breast implants (silicone implants). The implants are very well accepted by the body with no side effects. Minimal to moderate enhancement may be achieved with fat grafting also, in which fat is harvested from your own body and is put into the breasts.
Duration of Procedure: 1 to 11/2 hrs. You may go home on the same day.
Anesthesia: General or Local with sedation
Recovery Time: 1 to 2 days
Genital Surgery – Sex reassignment surgery for M to F creates female sexual organs that look as natural as possible and that allow as much sexual arousal as possible.
Procedure: This involves removal of the penile muscle and tissue, the testicles, and reshaping the external genitalia to appear like female genitalia. The vagina is made with penile skin inversion and/or sigmoid colon technique so that vagina is deep enough to allow normal sexual intercourse.
Tracheal shave (Adam’s Apple Correction )
Laser Hair Removal