What is gender confirmation surgery?

[Munet]

Is gender confirmation surgery so trendy nowadays?

 

[jenn]

Is gender confirmation surgery so trendy nowadays?

Although transgender people might have several surgeries as part of transitioning, “Gender Confirmation Surgery” is generally understood to mean “MTF vaginoplasty”.


MTF vaginoplasty is also known as

• Sexual Reassignment Surgery
• Gender Reassignment Surgery
• I believe some other things don’t come to mind.

It is not “so trendy”. As it becomes more available and techniques have improved, and treatment for being transgender becomes more known generally, more people are seeking it.

 

[realhuman]

Is gender confirmation surgery so trendy nowadays?

It's not. Treatment has become safer and more accessible for those who need it. Even some who would benefit from it still do not get it because intricate surgeries like gender confirmation surgeries can have a variety of risks. It is far from trendy, and it would be challenging to make it trendy considering how expensive and drastically life-changing it is.

 

[Caitie]

“Gender Confirmation Surgery” can be one of a host of potential surgical procedures, all with the common thread of seeking to help a transgender/non-binary/agender bring their body into more close alignment with the gender they experience.
Surgeries include:

• Vaginoplasty/ vulvaplasty- to give the patient a more female-typical vagina/vulva
• Orchiectomy - remove testes (to curtail the body’s production of testosterone)
• Metoidioplasty/phalloplasty - to give the patient a more male-typical phallus
• Hysterectomy/oophorectomy/salpingectomy - remove the uterus, ovary/ovaries, and Fallopian tube(s) (oophorectomy will curtail the body’s production of estrogen)
• Breast reduction/valvuloplasty - remove breast tissue and shape the chest to be more male-typical
• Breast augmentation - increase the size and improve the shape of breasts.
• Chondrolaryngoplasty (Tracheal shave) - reduce the size/prominence of Adam’s apple.
• Vocal feminization surgery - shorten/tighten the vocal cords to raise the pitch of sounds they produce (to a more female-typical range)
• Facial feminization surgery - any of several surgeries intended to reshape the face to more female-typical features. It may include reshaping the chin/jaw, brow bone reduction/shaping, rhinoplasty (reshaping the nose), forehead reduction/scalp advancement (moving the hairline forward to a more female-typical placement), upper lip reduction, and cheekbone implants/reshaping.
• Facial masculinization surgery - similar to facial feminization surgery, any of many surgeries intended to reshape the face to more male-typical features. Includes many of the same possible procedures, just with different shaping goals.
• Hair transplants - to counter testosterone-induced hair loss

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It’s important to know that while many of these surgeries align with the binary notions of sex and gender, neither sex nor gender is binary. Non-binary and agender people may also need these or similar surgeries to align their bodies with the gender (or lack thereof) they experience. All are valid.

There are several other surgeries which aren’t performed as frequently as the above, as well as variations on the above surgeries.