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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

A vaginoplasty is a medical procedure, typically where doctors create a vagina from skin and tissues from the penis and scrotum; however, there are many forms of vaginoplasties. The doctor creates a clitoris using the tissue from the head of the penis; the majority of transfeminine people who have vaginoplasty can still orgasm with the same intensity or greater intensity after recovering from the procedure.^[1]^[2] Tissue from the foreskin is used to create the vaginal opening (introitus), and skin from the penis and scrotum is used to create inner and outer labia.

Some time after the vaginoplasty surgery, the patient needs to start a regimen of dilating their vagina, and continue this for one year. Physical therapy for the patient's pelvic floor is also important post-surgery.^[3]^[4]

Vaginoplasty is different from a vulvoplasty because it involves creating a vaginal canal.^[3]

External links

The Mad Gender Science Wiki has an article comparing surgeons who offer vaginoplasty.

References

↑ Boskey, Elizabeth; Ganor, Oren (7 January 2021). "Sexual health and gender-affirming care". Harvard Health Blog. Retrieved 27 January 2021. Vaginoplasty restructures the head of the penis into a clitoris and creates a vaginal cavity. In one study of 119 vaginoplasty patients, 90% of transfeminine people who had the surgery reported that they were still able to have an orgasm, and 75% said their orgasms were either the same or more intense than before.
↑ Hess; et al. (27 May 2018). "Sexuality after Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Surgery". BioMed Research International. doi:10.1155/2018/9037979. Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Transfeminine Bottom Surgery". University of Utah Health. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
↑ "Dilation Instructions" (PDF). University of Utah Health. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[HHB-1] Boskey, Elizabeth; Ganor, Oren (7 January 2021). "Sexual health and gender-affirming care". Harvard Health Blog. Retrieved 27 January 2021. Vaginoplasty restructures the head of the penis into a clitoris and creates a vaginal cavity. In one study of 119 vaginoplasty patients, 90% of transfeminine people who had the surgery reported that they were still able to have an orgasm, and 75% said their orgasms were either the same or more intense than before.

[2] Hess; et al. (27 May 2018). "Sexuality after Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Surgery". BioMed Research International. doi:10.1155/2018/9037979. Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[UofUtah-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "Transfeminine Bottom Surgery". University of Utah Health. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

[UofUtah-dilation-4] "Dilation Instructions" (PDF). University of Utah Health. Retrieved 27 January 2021.

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-A vaginoplasty is a medical procedure, typically where doctors create a vagina from skin and tissues from the penis and scrotum; however, there are many forms of vaginoplasties. The doctor creates a clitoris using this, and therefore it is possible to orgasm after having a vaginoplasty.  This is different from a [[Vulvoplasty]] because it involves creating a vaginal canal.<ref>[https://healthcare.utah.edu/transgender-health/gender-affirmation-surgery/vaginoplasty.php Transfeminine Bottom Surgery | University of Utah Health] </ref>.
+A vaginoplasty is a medical procedure, typically where doctors create a vagina from skin and tissues from the penis and scrotum; however, there are many forms of vaginoplasties. The doctor creates a clitoris using the tissue from the head of the penis; the majority of [[transfeminine]] people who have vaginoplasty can still orgasm with the same intensity or greater intensity after recovering from the procedure.<ref name="HHB">{{Cite web |title=Sexual health and gender-affirming care |last1=Boskey |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Ganor |first2=Oren |work=Harvard Health Blog |date=7 January 2021 |access-date=27 January 2021 |url= https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/sexual-health-and-gender-affirming-care-2021010721688 |quote=Vaginoplasty restructures the head of the penis into a clitoris and creates a vaginal cavity. In one study of 119 vaginoplasty patients, 90% of transfeminine people who had the surgery reported that they were still able to have an orgasm, and 75% said their orgasms were either the same or more intense than before.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1155/2018/9037979 |author=Hess et al. |journal=BioMed Research International |title=Sexuality after Male-to-Female Gender Affirmation Surgery |date=27 May 2018 |url=https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2018/9037979/}}</ref> Tissue from the foreskin is used to create the vaginal opening (introitus), and skin from the penis and scrotum is used to create inner and outer labia.
+Some time after the vaginoplasty surgery, the patient needs to start a regimen of dilating their vagina, and continue this for one year. Physical therapy for the patient's pelvic floor is also important post-surgery.<ref name="UofUtah">{{Cite web |title=Transfeminine Bottom Surgery |author= |work=University of Utah Health |date= |access-date=27 January 2021 |url= https://healthcare.utah.edu/transgender-health/gender-affirmation-surgery/vaginoplasty.php}}</ref><ref name="UofUtah-dilation">{{Cite web |title=Dilation Instructions |author= |work=University of Utah Health |date= |access-date=27 January 2021 |url= https://healthcare.utah.edu/transgender-health/docs/vaginoplasty-dilator-instructions.pdf}}</ref>
+Vaginoplasty is different from a [[vulvoplasty]] because it involves creating a vaginal canal.<ref name="UofUtah" />
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