AIM The Belgian medical world has acknowledged the diagnosis of transsexualism and accepted Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) as one of the steps in the treatment of choice since 1985. This prevalence and demographic study analyses data on all Belgian individuals who have undergone SRS since that year. METHODS All (188) plastic surgeons as well as all gender teams (Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, and Li...

INTRODUCTION Controversies on clitoral anatomy and its role in female sexual function still make clitoral reconstructive surgery very challenging. We evaluated the role of clitoral anatomic features in female to male sex reassignment surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 97 female transsexuals, aged from 18 to 41 years, who underwent single stage metoidioplasty between March 2008 a...

The paper considers and rejects two arguments against the performance of sexual reassignment surgery. First, it is argued that the operation is not mutilating, but functionally enabling. Second, it is argued that the operation is not objectionably deceptive, since, if there is such a thing as our 'real sex', we do not know (ordinarily) what it is. The paper is also intended to shed light on wha...

evaluates them, and relates them. He offers some new interpretations of old information and suggests some new directions for research. Over 500 references are offered, divided into a list of specific references to work cited in the text and a selected bibliography. The rigorous definitions of epidemiological terms that are given will be helpful to readers unfamiliar with their use. A few weakne...

OBJECTIVE This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to contrast the differential brain activation patterns in response to visual stimulation with both male and female erotic nude pictures in male-to-female (MTF) transsexuals who underwent a sex reassignment surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of nine healthy MTF transsexuals after a sex reassignment surgery underwent fMR...

To cite: Suchak T, Hussey J, Takhar M, et al. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2014101091 BACKGROUND UK figures estimate that in 1998 there were 3170 people over the age of 15 years assigned as male at birth who had presented with gender dysphoria. This figure is comparable to that found in the Netherlands where 2440 have ...

Gender dysphoria refers to a feeling of awkwardness or discomfort in an anatomically compatible gender role and desire have body the opposite sex, as well negative emotion associated with marked incompatibility between sex they their experienced expressed gender. It is known that reassignment surgeries cause critical changes lives individuals dysphoria. For this reason, it thought important fol...