Gender Confirmation Surgery

All Indian citizens have the right to choose their gender, regardless of creed or caste. When an individual feels that their identity doesn’t correspond to their birth gender, they can choose to undergo gender transformation. People who choose to transition to another sex through medical means are transsexuals.

Surgery to confirm a person’s gender identity is known as gender confirmation surgery. There are three types of gender confirmation surgery: top surgery, bottom surgery, and facial surgery. Generally, people who undergo gender confirmation surgery report improved mental health and quality of life.

How Does Gender Confirmation Surgery Work?

The change of gender confirmation Surgery (formerly known as Gender Reassignment Surgery) allows individuals with gender dysphoria to permanently change body parts related to their biological sex.

A person’s physical appearance can also be altered by hormones. This will make them appear more like the opposite sex. For example, men will take anti-androgens and oestrogen to appear more feminine.

Individuals born as males may undergo surgery to remove their testicles, penis, and, in some cases, prostate glands. It is the penis tissue that creates the clitoris and vagina, which have sensation. Scrotum tissue makes up the lips across the vagina (the labia). Urine drains from the body through the urethra, which is shortened. In order to maintain an open vagina after surgery, individuals use vaginal dilators.

Many people have cosmetic surgery to enhance their femininity, such as breast implants or changing their eyebrows, lips, or nose.

Sex reassignment surgery for men to women

The penile inversion vaginoplasty is combined with the neurovascular neoclitoris procedure for male-to-female sex reassignment surgery candidates.

When the process is performed, a certified surgeon makes “like become like” by utilizing parts from the original penis. Testicles are surgically removed during an orchiectomy. Labia are formed from the skin of the scrotum. In order to make the neoclitoris, tissue from the penis erectile is used. There is no damage to the urethra and it is functional.

With this surgery, both functional and aesthetic female genitalia can be improved in a single four- to five-hour operation. In a surgical consultation, a patient’s recovery course, the process details, potential complications, and expected results will be thoroughly discussed.

Reassignment of females to males

A phalloplasty is typically performed using the method of the radial forearm flap for candidates who are undergoing female-to-male sex reassignment surgery.

In conjunction with a vaginectomy or hysterectomy, this procedure builds a phallus as well as a urethra to allow standing urination. Scrotum construction with testicular implants is the second stage. The recovery course, the details of the procedure, the potential complications, and the expected results will be discussed in detail during the surgical consultation.