Vasectomy: 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

A vasectomy is a permanent form of contraception which can be gender affirming for trans women or transfeminine people. The procedure is also used for cis men (or other people with penises) who do not wish to be fertile.

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	A [[wikipedia:Vasectomy\|vasectomy]] is a permanent form of [[wikipedia:Birth_control\|contraception]] which can be gender affirming for [[trans women]] or [[transfeminine]] people. The procedure is also used for [[cis]] men (or other people with penises) who do not wish to be fertile.		A [[wikipedia:Vasectomy\|vasectomy]] is a permanent form of [[wikipedia:Birth_control\|contraception]] which can be gender affirming for [[trans women]] or [[transfeminine]] people. The procedure is also used for [[cis]] men (or other people with penises) who do not wish to be fertile.

			See also [[Sterilization]].