When you change gender from woman to man or man to woman. They change your genitals to the other gender by surgery.
A bilateral orchiectomy is commonly performed as one stage in male-to-female (MTF) gender reassignment surgery.
Phalloplasty can be done as part of gender reassignment or simply, sexual reassignment where the person in question stays the same gender, but alters their sexual organs.
If surgical candidates are socially or emotionally unstable before the operation, over the age of 30, or have an unsuitable body build for the new gender, they tend not to fare well after gender reassignment surgery.
The morbidity and mortality rates for persons having an orchiectomy as part of gender reassignment surgery are about the same as those for any procedure involving general or epidural anesthesia.
I'm not sure if one exists.
As a Male to Female transsexual I am being administered estrogen and an androgen blocker (stops testosterone) before my gender reassignment surgery. After my surgery I will have to continue to take the estrogen for the rest of my life.
Patients requesting gender reassignment surgery must undergo a lengthy process of physical and psychological evaluation before receiving approval for surgery.
They both had gender reassignment surgery, and are hanging out with Chaz Bono in Copenhagen......
Yes - especially in legal issues.
Yes, if they decides to get sex reassignment surgery or use a prosthesis.
I don't think health insurance covered sex reassignment surgery, but you do need a "transgender" lawyer to help you with legal issues.
Because of widespread social disapproval of surgical gender reassignment, researchers do not know the true prevalence of gender identity disorders in the general population.