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Intersex medical interventions (IMI), sometimes known as intersex genital mutilations (IGM), [1] are surgical, hormonal and other medical interventions performed to modify atypical or ambiguous genitalia and other sex characteristics, primarily for the purposes of making a person's appearance more typical and to reduce the likelihood of future problems.
Lili Ilse Elvenes (28 December 1882 – 13 September 1931), better known as Lili Elbe, was a Danish painter, transgender woman, and one of the earliest recipients of sex reassignment surgery (gender-affirming surgery). [1] [2] She was a painter under her birth name Einar Wegener. [3]
Transgender rights in the Federal Republic of Germany are regulated by the Transsexuellengesetz ("Transsexual law") [1] since 1980, and indirectly affected by other laws like the Abstammungsrecht ("Law of Descent"). [2] The law initially required transgender people to undergo sex-reassignment surgery in order
Based on the Management Specification on Gender Reassignment Technology published by National Health Commission in 2022, the surgical patient has to be at least over 18 years old, have the desire of intending gender reassignment persistently for more than 5 years, be unmarried in order to take the sex reassignment surgery; [31] plus, proof of ...
Sex reassignment surgery (male-to-female) involves reshaping the male genitals into a form with the appearance of, and, as far as possible, the function of female genitalia. Pages in category "Gender-affirming surgery (male-to-female)"
Sexuality in transgender individuals encompasses all the issues of sexuality of other groups, including establishing a sexual identity, learning to deal with one's sexual needs, and finding a partner, but may be complicated by issues of gender dysphoria, side effects of surgery, physiological and emotional effects of hormone replacement therapy, psychological aspects of expressing sexuality ...
In 2006, Petras, then aged 13, appeared on a German television current-affairs show in which she discussed her medical gender transition. At age 14, she appeared in a documentary and a talk show, [10] [11] in a push to get permission for early sex reassignment surgery at age 16, before the minimum age of 18 in Germany. These appearances ...
In 1779, in England, a seven-year-old intersex child, initially assigned female, underwent the first recorded surgery during modern times, resulting in their reassignment as male. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the United States genital reconstructive surgery was pioneered between 1930 and 1960 by urologist Hugh Hampton Young and other surgeons at Johns ...