Since the mid-1980s, rates of regret among individuals who pursue
sexual reassignment surgery (SRS) have varied from 10% to 30% (Olsson & Moller, 2006).
Gender Reconstructive Surgery /
Sexual Reassignment SurgeryAfter the
sexual reassignment surgery, is Chaz a man or still a lesbian, just in a man's body?
Statistically, in a random group of 5,000 adults, there are at least four people who have undergone
sexual reassignment surgery and as many as 75 people who fall under the "transgender" umbrella (conservatively estimated at 1.5 percent of the population).
(21) Of the states that have a gender change petition policy, whether by statute or by administrative regulation or policy, nearly all require
sexual reassignment surgery before granting a petition.
These methods include hormone treatment, psychotherapy/counseling, and/or
sexual reassignment surgery. In many cases, the effective treatment of gender identity disorder is a combination of all the aforementioned treatment options in a custom treatment option suited for the individual's specific needs as opposed to the general condition of gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria (APA, 2000; McDonald, 2004).
of California at Davis) alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia also include animal and human branding,
sexual reassignment surgery, makeup, and P.T.
They reported finding a distinctly female brain structure in genetically male transsexuals (men who had gone through hormonal treatment and irreversible
sexual reassignment surgery to become women).
Beyer underwent
sexual reassignment surgery in 1984.
named George Jorgensen into Christine in the most widely publicized early
sexual reassignment surgery. Since then, the number of postoperative transsexuals has grown into the tens of thousands, with many times that in various stages of gender transition--and, of course, an untold number who feel themselves to be transgendered and do nothing about it physically.
Jenner shared the photo not long after her interview on Piers Morgan's "Life Stories," where she revealed she kept her
sexual reassignment surgery a secret from Kim Kardashian and the rest of the family.