Grupo Español de Identidad y Diferenciación Sexual de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología (GIDSEEN): M.C. Almaraz (Andalucía), J.A. Álvarez-Diz (Asturias), L. Audí (Cataluña), A. Becerra (C. Madrid), L. Castaño (P. Vasco), I. Esteva (Andalucía), M. Fernández Sánchez-Barbudo (I. Canarias), M. Gómez-Balaguer (C. Valenciana), E. Gómez-Gil (Cataluña), F. Hurtado (C. Valenciana), J.P. López-Sigue...

BACKGROUND Subcutaneous mastectomy for female- to-male transsexuals is usually the first surgical pro- cedure in sexual reassignment. The main objective of subcutaneous mastectomy is to create an aesthetically pleasing male chest contour by removing all glandular tissue while minimizing chest wall scars. AIMS In this paper, we present our experience with subcutaneous mastectomy performed in f...

BACKGROUND There are few reports describing chromosomal abnormalities in transsexuals. In rare cases, transsexualism and sexual chromosomal multiplicity coexist. Six cases of male-to-female transsexuals with 47,XYY chromosomal pattern have been previously reported. We have not encountered any female transsexual cases with 47,XXX karyotype in the literature. METHODS A 21-year-old female patien...

Confronted with the centrality of body for trans-masculine individuals interviewed in United Kingdom and Portugal, we explore how bodily-reflexive practices are central doing masculinity. Following Connell’s early insight that bodies needed to come back political sociological agendas, propose practice is a concept suited account production trans-masculinities. Although multiple, journeys demons...