Uterus transplant: Difference between revisions

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Surgeries and procedures

Top surgery
- Enlarging (breast augmentation)
- Reducing or removing (mastectomy or breast reduction)
Bottom surgery
- Changes to the gonads
  - Removing testicles (orchiectomy)
  - Removing ovaries (oophorectomy)
- Changes to the phallus
  - Creating (phalloplasty)
  - Removing (penectomy)
  - Making a clitoris more like a penis (metoidioplasty)
- Changes to the vagina
  - Creating (vaginoplasty)
  - Removing (vaginectomy)
- Changes to the labia
- Changes to the uterus
  - Removing (hysterectomy)
  - Sterilizing (tubal ligation)
  - Stopping periods (uterine ablation)
  - Uterus transplant
- Combined changes
  - Removing penis and testes (emasculation)
  - Removing most or all genitals (genital nullification)
- Creating a vulva (Vulvoplasty)
- Creating a scrotum (scrotoplasty)
- Sterilization
Other surgeries and procedures
- Adam's apple reduction
- Facial surgery

Uterus transplantation is a largely experimental procedure at this time. It has currently only been performed with infertile cisgender women as the recipients; however, some transfeminine people are interested in receiving a uterus transplant so that they can carry a child or simply so that they can menstruate.^[1]

References

↑ Jones, Benjamin P.; Rajamanoharan, Abirami; Vali, Saaliha; Williams, Nicola J.; Saso, Srdjan; Thum, Meen-Yau; Ghaem-Maghami, Sadaf; Quiroga, Isabel; Diaz-Garcia, Cesar; Thomas, Philip; Wilkinson, Stephen; Yazbek, Joseph; Smith, J. Richard (2021). "Perceptions and Motivations for Uterus Transplant in Transgender Women". JAMA Network Open. 4 (1): e2034561. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34561. ISSN 2574-3805.

[JonesRajamanoharan2021-1] Jones, Benjamin P.; Rajamanoharan, Abirami; Vali, Saaliha; Williams, Nicola J.; Saso, Srdjan; Thum, Meen-Yau; Ghaem-Maghami, Sadaf; Quiroga, Isabel; Diaz-Garcia, Cesar; Thomas, Philip; Wilkinson, Stephen; Yazbek, Joseph; Smith, J. Richard (2021). "Perceptions and Motivations for Uterus Transplant in Transgender Women". JAMA Network Open. 4 (1): e2034561. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.34561. ISSN 2574-3805.

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