An overview of sex reassignment surgery

Raphael Lopes Olegário; Silvia Maria Aparecida Vitorino

doi:10.23925/1984-4840.2019v21i4a2

Authors

Raphael Lopes Olegário Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação Física – Brasília (DF), Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8931-9533
Silvia Maria Aparecida Vitorino Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação Física – Brasília (DF), Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1046-9545

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-4840.2019v21i4a2

Keywords:

sex reassignment surgery, surgical procedures, operative, transsexualism, transgender people, gender dysphoria

Abstract

Transsexuality is a subset of transgenderism, but some transsexual people reject the label of transgender. A medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria can be made if a person expresses a desire to live and be accepted as a member of their identified sex and if a person experiences impaired functioning or distress as a result of their gender identity. The array of medically indicated surgeries differs between transwomen and transmen. For transwomen, genital reconstruction usually involves the surgical construction of a vagina. For transmen, genital reconstruction may involve construction of a penis through either phalloplasty or metoidioplasty.

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Author Biography

Raphael Lopes Olegário, Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Educação Física – Brasília (DF), Brasil.

Graduate in Physical Education. Faculty of Physical Education. University of Brasilia (UNB). Brasilia, DF. Brazil.

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