Topic: To the Transgender/Androgynous, I need your help!

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I'm doing an ethics paper for my biology course about weather or not Sexual Reassignment Surgery is ethical, and I need help. Any information and sources you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Also, any stories you may have about being trans/gend-and, those would be great too.

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Post: #650116

, Fri 18 May 12, 2:59PM

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1. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/SRS.html

("Warning": pictures of results of srs are in this, so it could be seen as graphic, but it's a very descriptive article from an academic institution)
2. http://www.newscientist.com/ar...brain-scan.html

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C..._transsexualism

We're talking surgery, so I'll be up front and "graphic: SRS, or gender confirmation surgery, typically doesn't de-sexualize someone (a common misconception). When trans women undergo srs (I'm not sure about how it goes for trans men), they do not "cut it off", the penis is pulled backward in a style called the penile inversion technique, which preserves nerve ending, creates a clitoris, creates an inner and outer labia, and there's supposed to be a g-spot from the unremoved prostate (which is left in for that and since it can provide lubrication and can allow a female orgasm). Really the only differences are: no ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus (so basically no pregnancy, as of yet, but that will be possible in the next few decades, it's not very far off), Bartholin's or Skene's glands (which offer lubrication and ejaculate in women), or hymen (which is "broken off," though it usually remains at least in part on cis women). While there can be issues of nerves having to "readjust" to their new positions, basically there's no difference between a cis and trans woman's vagina.

I do know that trans men's results from srs/gcs are generally not as "good", but that will probably improve with time.

Other than that, I'd say really look at the second article and check the sources used off of the Wikipedia article. If you have extra time, Julia Serano's "Whipping Girl", does a great job of talking about how trans women are women (and trans men are men), without talking about surgery so much.

"Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."-Dr.Seuss

Edit: darkless, Fri 18 May 12, 5:06PM
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, Fri 18 May 12, 5:04PM

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