Purpose: Gender dysphoria GD is an incompatibility between biological sex and personal gender identity; individuals harbor an unalterable conviction that they were born in the wrong body, which causes personal suffering. In this context, surgery is imperative to achieve a successful gender transition and plays a key role in alleviating the associated psychological discomfort. In the current study, a retrospective cohort, we report the years outcomes of the gender-affirming surgery performed at a single Brazilian university center, examining demographic data, intra and postoperative complications. During this period, patients underwent penile inversion vaginoplasty. Results: Results demonstrate that the average age at the time of surgery was

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Early on Billy-Joe told his girlfriend he was transgender and wanted to become a man. That was five years ago. He was He had already once tried to take his own life. Since he was a four-year-old girl named Connie, Billy-Joe Newington has been desperate to be a boy. He started taking male hormones when he was 23 and had a double mastectomy last year, but it was not enough: he felt that to become a man he would need a penis. Billy-Joe lives in Wales.
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This feeling followed him through adulthood. Who Stephens was supposed to be is a man. However, he was assigned female at birth also known as AFAB. This incongruence is a condition known as gender dysphoria. In , Stephens underwent a mastectomy. In August , he had a hysterectomy and a vaginectomy. The surgeries were performed by Dr.
Learn more. Also referred to as birth sex, natal sex, biological sex or sex. Cisgender: A term for people whose gender identity generally matches the gender assigned for their physical sex. In other words, someone who does not identify as transgender. FTM: Female-to-male transgender person. Sometimes identifies as a transgender man. Someone assigned the female gender at birth who identifies on the male spectrum. They may define their gender as falling somewhere in between man and woman, or they may define it as wholly different from these terms. MTF: Male-to-female transgender person.