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'''Metoidioplasty''' or '''metaoidioplasty''' (informally called a '''meta''') is a kind of surgery that some transgender and transsexual people seek.<ref>[https://archive.today/20121017065438/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118853935/abstract Metoidioplasty: a variant of phalloplasty in female transsexuals] by S.V. Perovic and M.L. Djordjevic (BJU International, Volume 92 Issue 9, December 2003)</ref> It is sought by some transgender men, some trans-masculine people, some nonbinary people, and some intersex people. A meta surgery increases the exposed length of a person's phallus.<ref name="trans bodies 280">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 280-281.</ref> For people who have certain kinds of phallus (called either a large clitoris or small penis), a meta surgery frees the phallus from the tissues that hold it close to the body,<ref name="trans bodies 280" /><ref name="hudson">Hudson. "FTM Genital Reconstruction Surgery (GRS)." ''Hudson's FTM Resource Guide.'' 2004. https://www.ftmguide.org/grs.html#meta [https://web.archive.org/web/20230522173248/https://www.ftmguide.org/grs.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and pulls it outward, making its external size larger, so that it can be easier to use for penetrative sex. A patient has a range of different options for other details of this surgery, or procedures that can be done at the same time as this surgery, which are described below. | '''Metoidioplasty''' or '''metaoidioplasty''' (informally called a '''meta''') is a kind of surgery that some transgender and transsexual people seek.<ref>[https://archive.today/20121017065438/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118853935/abstract Metoidioplasty: a variant of phalloplasty in female transsexuals] by S.V. Perovic and M.L. Djordjevic (BJU International, Volume 92 Issue 9, December 2003)</ref> It is sought by some transgender men, some trans-masculine people, some nonbinary people, and some intersex people. A meta surgery increases the exposed length of a person's phallus.<ref name="trans bodies 280">Laura Erickson-Schroth, ed. ''Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community.'' Oxford University Press, 2014. P. 280-281.</ref> For people who have certain kinds of phallus (called either a large clitoris or small penis), a meta surgery frees the phallus from the tissues that hold it close to the body,<ref name="trans bodies 280" /><ref name="hudson">Hudson. "FTM Genital Reconstruction Surgery (GRS)." ''Hudson's FTM Resource Guide.'' 2004. https://www.ftmguide.org/grs.html#meta [https://web.archive.org/web/20230522173248/https://www.ftmguide.org/grs.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> and pulls it outward, making its external size larger, so that it can be easier to use for penetrative sex. A patient has a range of different options for other details of this surgery, or procedures that can be done at the same time as this surgery, which are described below. | ||