Gender Affirming Healthcare
People who undergo sex-reassignment procedures do not become the opposite sex—they merely masculinize or feminize their outward appearance - Ryan T Anderson PhD
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Regret Isn’t Rare: The Dangerous Lie of Sex Change Surgery’s Success
We have been told sex reassignment surgery is successful. The advocates say that regret is rare, and that 98 percent of surgeries are successful. While that figure might be true for surgical complications, before we accept a narrative of surgical success we should consider the evidence. To evaluate success or failure, we need to go beyond the mechanical skill of the surgeon to examine the emotional and psychological wholeness of the patient afterwards—and not just in the first few months, but in the years to come.
Transgender advocates have worked to create a false narrative, hoodwinking the world into believing that no one ever has regrets from a surgical change of gender. They…
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What I wish I’d known before I had gender-affirming surgery
The media makes out procedures like the one I had to be cure-alls. They're not.
What Sex Reassignment Surgery Is Really Like, at Least For Me.
Sex Reassignment Surgery in Transgender women is a misunderstood, maligned, and mysterious procedure.
If sex reassignment surgery is the answer, what is the question?
If sex reassignment surgery is the answer, what is the question? by Michael Cook | 18 Feb 2017 | 4 comments Sex reassignment surgery requires the intervention of doctors. But what kind of treatment is it? Is it a therapy for a disease which should be offered only after psychiatric authorization? Or is it a biomedical enhancement which anyone can freely choose? The answer to this theoretical question has practical consequences. If it is a therapy, then transgenderism is a disease. If it is an enhancement, then it hardly deserves to be funded by the government.
The troubling history of “sex change” surgery
The dark and troubling history of the contemporary transgender movement, with its enthusiastic approval of gender-reassignment surgery, has left a trail of misery in its wake. Bruce Jenner and Diane Sawyer could benefit from a history lesson. I know, because I suffered through “sex change” surgery and lived as a woman for eight years. The surgery fixed nothing—it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems.
The Ugly Truth About Sex Reassignment the Transgender Lobby Doesn’t Want You to Know
In an interview with The Telegraph, world-renowned genital reconstructive surgeon Miroslav Djordjevic said his clinics are experiencing an increase in “reversal” surgeries for those who want their genitalia back. These people express crippling levels of depression and, in some instances, suicidal thoughts.
A Patient Gets the New Transgender Surgery She Helped Invent
Hayley Anthony recently became one of the first people in the world to have tissue incised from the cavity of her abdomen and turned into a vagina.
Doctors Pushed Her to Get Sex Reassignment Surgery. Now, She Knows It Was a Mistake.
Every week, I receive at least one heartbreaking letter of regret from someone who was sexually abused as a young person and later underwent a “sex change” in a misguided attempt to heal the pain. The sex-change cheerleaders in the medical profession routinely diagnose these people with gender dysphoria and rush to administer cross-gender hormones and recommend surgery.
How Does a Gender-Reassignment Surgeon Work?
In this episode, Ting describes some of those surgical processes in detail, but he also talks about the rewards of helping patients who have, in some cases, waited decades for the procedures he conducts.
Let’s Talk About Sex (Change)
Sex-change surgery gave me my life. I would not be who I am without it.
Sex Change Surgery is the New Pre-Frontal Lobotomy, and a Trendy Form of Child Abuse
The new politically correct is to mutilate children with sex change surgeries and massive doses of hormones. A shameful article in the Boston Globe, titled Led by the child who simply knew promoted this horrific form of child abuse for all it was worth.
Sex changes are not effective, say researchers
There is no conclusive evidence that sex change operations improve the lives of transsexuals, with many people remaining severely distressed and even suicidal after the operation...
Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution
A drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles.
What I wish I’d known before I had gender-affirming surgery
The media makes out procedures like the one I had to be cure-alls. They're not.
What It's Like to Get Gender Affirmation Surgery
In the end, my five-year quest for male genitalia would cost more than $100,000, not including travel. I was beyond fortunate my parents had the means to pay for my surgery. Lord knows I sure didn't. Nor do most people in my situation today.
Why One Trans Woman Wants to Discuss Sex After Surgery
Nomi said that as she was preparing for SRS, she wished there were more women talking about their experiences of sex after surgery, because she felt sort of in the dark.
Myth #5: All trans people medically transition
Not everyone who is transgender prioritizes or desires procedures, such as hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries, required for a full medical transition. While some undergo medical transitions for cosmetic, psychological, or health reasons, many won’t because they can’t afford it, face some other obstacle, or simply don’t want to.
Even ‘sex change’ surgeons now expressing doubt about transgenderism
Dr. Djordjevic says he's been overwhelmed by the number of people who've approached him about reversing their procedure. The surgery that they thought would bring them the satisfaction they were looking for only plunged them into deeper despair.
Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy for LGBTQ Youth Can Help Save Lives, Study Finds
The use of gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is significantly related to lower rates of depression, suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender and nonbinary youth, according to a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
He made this town the world’s ‘sex-change capital,’ but he’s not honored here
If you’re looking for evidence that this little-known Western outpost was, for 41 years, known as the world’s “sex-change capital,” be prepared to look a long time. Dr. Stanley Biber, the colorful country surgeon whose pioneering work made “going to Trinidad” a euphemism for gender confirmation surgery, has been dead since 2006.
Ignored by doctors, trans people turn to dangerous underground treatments
Many individuals resort to black market hormones and surgeries when they can’t find gender-affirming health care.
It’s okay to let your transgender kid transition — even if they might change their mind in the future
De-transitioning is rare and not as bad as people think.
Meet the gender reassignment surgeons: 'Demand is going through the roof'
Under a dozen people in the UK can carry out vaginoplasty or phalloplasty operations – and attracting new talent is tough.
My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy
I like to say that being trans is the second-worst thing that ever happened to me. (The worst was being born a boy.) Dysphoria is notoriously difficult to describe to those who haven’t experienced it, like a flavor. Its official definition — the distress some transgender people feel at the incongruence between the gender they express and the gender they’ve been socially assigned — does little justice to the feeling.
Myths About Gender Confirmation Surgery
In many ways, the reaction the idea of Gender Confirmation Surgeries (GCS) resembles the reaction people have to the thought of two men having sex. The problem is that the lack of understanding about GCS for transgender people is the biggest impediment to actually receiving care.
New York Times Reveals Painful Truths About "Sex Change" Surgery
People who undergo sex-reassignment procedures do not become the opposite sex—they merely masculinize or feminize their outward appearance.
The Organization That Wants to Make Gender Affirmation Surgery Easier
"There is more awareness about healthcare for transgender people, but most are not being served by the marketplace," says Austin H. Johnson...
There Are Two Sides to the Debate on Health Care for Trans Kids. Here’s What You’re Missing About One of Them.
SHARE COMMENT Here are some things we know about gender-affirming health care: We know that the number of young patients being seen by gender clinics has increased, and that the gender balance of these young patients has changed, with more female-assigned youth seeking care. (We don’t see the same gender imbalance outside of clinics, where young people identify as trans in roughly equal numbers regardless of birth-assigned sex.) We also know that autism is more common in trans youth than in the broader population.
What does it mean to misgender a transgender person?
Liam, 30, isn’t scared of needles. And he isn’t afraid of blood. The problem starts in the lobby of a doctor’s office, when Liam is asked to sign in. What happens next — write your name, age, health history and current prescriptions — may seem routine for most people. But for a transgender person, these questions can be uncomfortable.
Why Sex Change Logic Requires Doctors To Perform Every Plastic Surgery Imaginable
In a New York Times op-ed, transgender person Andrea Long Chu demands that doctors cede their ethical purview entirely to the desires of transgender patients.
‘History is repeating itself’: The story of the nation’s first clinic for gender-affirming surgery
Nearly 60 years ago, Johns Hopkins Hospital opened a first-of-its-kind clinic to provide gender-affirming surgery. The Gender Identity Clinic blazed a new trail, with more than a dozen new clinics opening across the country in the decade that followed.
Regret Isn’t Rare: The Dangerous Lie of Sex Change Surgery’s Success
Let’s stop enabling the delusion that transition is the only answer. Let’s allow scientific research to flourish, no matter what the results show. Let’s look at the evidence and facts and encourage treatment options that address dangerous psychiatric conditions first. In that way, we can ensure the best outcomes for those who have gender dysphoria.
Very Well
Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) is known by a variety of names, including gender reassignment surgery (GRS), sex change surgery, sex affirmation procedures, and genital reconstruction surgery.
Point of Pride
Point of Pride works to benefit trans people in need through gender-affirming support programs that empower them to live more authentically.
Jim Collins Foundation
The mission of the Jim Collins Foundation is to provide financial assistance to transgender people for gender-affirming surgeries. The Jim Collins Foundation recognizes that not every transgender person needs or wants surgery to achieve a healthy transition. But for those who do, gender-affirming surgeries are an important step in their transition to being their true selves.
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