The road to transgender has been much in the news recently as the UK legal system made a key ruling last week.  Gender reassignment surgery has been booming both in the UK and worldwide as the LGBT community push for the right to change one's sexual identity to be seen as a basic human right. We consider gender-confirming surgery to be an important topic for discussion since it touches at the very basis of human identity.  It is a miracle that we now possess the surgical skills to perform such major transformations in the human body.  it is also...

The tracheal shave, commonly known as Adam's apple reduction surgery, is one of the most frequent procedures included in facial feminization surgery treatment plans.  Medically, a tracheal shave is also one of the simplest operations many people will undergo as part of their transition since it can be done as an outpatient surgery using only local anaesthesia.  If the trachea shave is the only surgery that will be performed, it can be done under local anaesthesia as an outpatient procedure, or in an operating room under general anaesthesia, depending on your doctors' recommendations. However, many times Adam's apple reduction is...

Transgender surgery is a topic we have covered regularly in this blog.  Today we look at a very interesting study from Germany on the quality of life (QoL) experienced by transgender patients after their operations.  We also examine the latest trends in transgender surgery around the world. Scientists have developed a transgender-specific questionnaire, which confirms for the first time that gender surgery substantially improves lifestyle for the majority of patients. The report shows that 80% of male-to-female clients perceived themselves as females post-surgery. However, the quality of life of transgender people is still noticeably less than the general population. Many...

In our gender fluid age many men feel that they could lead a better life if they were able to identify fully as a woman. Physical appearance plays an enormous role in the gender transition process and some people feel that they would only be truly comfortable if they could take care of their physique too.. Transgender breast augmentation is a cosmetic procedure that convincingly enhances the size of the chest and the the shape of transfemine patients using implants. Transgender breast Augmentation Whilst there is an abundance of information on regular types of breast augmentation (boob jobs) there is...

As the market for transgender cosmetic surgery expands globally we look at the clinics that have set up specialised teams of surgeons and nurses to work with men and women seeking to reassign their gender.   Such surgery is never undertaken lightly and often comes with drug regimes and psychological counselling.  But, assuming that you qualify emotionally and physically we have put together a helpful list of surgeons who are experts in MTF (male to female) breast augmentations and genital adjustments. The transgender cosmetic surgery clinics are located all around the world in such diverse countries as Israel and Thailand, Belgium...