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Gender reassignment therapy

Gender reassignment therapy is an umbrella term for all medical procedures regarding gender reassignment of both transgendered and intersexual people. (Sometimes also called sex reassignment.)

Gender reassignment therapy consists of hormone replacement therapy, various surgical procedures, and epilation (removal of beard or body hair) for transwomen.

• Sexual reassignment surgery is the (re-)construction of male or female genitals.
• Breast augmentation is the enlargement of breasts, which can be necessary if hormone therapy did not yield satisfactory results.
• Facial feminization surgery
• Phalloplasty is specifically the construction of a neo-penis in transmen
• Mastectomy is the removal of female breasts and, in case of gender reassignment, the shaping of a male contoured chest.
• Hysterectomy is the removal of female internal organs.

See also: List of transgender-related topics

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