How Gender Reassignment Surgery Works (Infographic)

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 21:12:13 | Updated at 2024-11-21 16:05:30 18 hours ago

How Gender Reassignment Surgery Works (Infographic)
Live Science ^ | 8/26/13 | Ross Toro

Posted on 11/20/2024 1:08:44 PM PST by DallasBiff

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who was sentenced Aug. 21 to 35 years in a military prison for releasing highly sensitive U.S. military secrets, is seeking gender reassignment. Here’s how gender reassignment works:

Converting male anatomy to female anatomy requires removing the penis, reshaping genital tissue to appear more female and constructing a vagina.

An incision is made into the scrotum, and the flap of skin is pulled back. The testes are removed.

People who have male-to-female gender-reassignment surgery retain a prostate. Following surgery, estrogen (a female hormone) will stimulate breast development, widen the hips, inhibit the growth of facial hair and slightly increase voice pitch.

Female-to-male surgery has achieved lesser success due to the difficulty of creating a functioning penis from the much smaller clitoral tissue available in the female genitals

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: reassignment; transgender

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Female-to-male surgery has achieved lesser success due to the difficulty of creating a functioning penis from the much smaller clitoral tissue available in the female genitals.

I know from 11 years ago, but back then it was easier to cut the nuts off, than putting a dildo to hide the vagina

Mods pull if too graphic.

1 posted on 11/20/2024 1:08:44 PM PST by DallasBiff

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