At a time when our culture and society is becoming far more accepting and understanding of the LGBT community, here comes the story of one of the first trans women to
undergo sex reassignment surgery in The Danish Girl.
The study finds that transgender women who received only hormone therapy had poorer metabolic health than transgender women who
underwent sex reassignment surgery in addition to receiving hormone therapy.
Not exact matches
Lest common sense fail to convince readers that
surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published
in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had
undergone sex -
reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present
in the general population.
Cervical cancer can still occur
in FTM transgender men, the majority of whom do not
undergo complete
sex reassignment surgery or
undergo total hysterectomy later
in life.
He would just dress
in drag, but he has never
undergone a
sex reassignment surgery.
The Danish Girl, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, and is directed by Tom Hooper, chronicles key events
in the life of Elbe — formerly known as Einar Wegener — who is one of the first people known to have
undergone sex reassignment surgery.
It was also reported that Charlize Theron would star alongside Nicole Kidman
in The Danish Girl, the story of the first known person to
undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Gender Confirmation
Surgery — An updated term for sex reassignment surgery, one step in the medical transition process that some trans people u
Surgery — An updated term for
sex reassignment surgery, one step in the medical transition process that some trans people u
surgery, one step
in the medical transition process that some trans people
undergo.
Transsexuals experience what is known as gender dysphoria, which means they feel as though they are trapped
in the body of the wrong
sex.2 It is for this reason that transsexuals sometimes
undergo sexual
reassignment surgery in order to change their body's appearance to be consistent with their desired gender (case
in point: Dancing with the Stars contestant Chaz Bono).