Tag : Dyphoria

Lucknow / New Delhi: A 34-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh with a condition called Gender Dyphoria underwent gender reassignment surgery at a private hospital in Delhi and successfully transformed into a man, doctors at the facility said. The Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, received a case of the 34 years old female, Gayatri, (name changed) who wanted to get completely transformed into a man. By all proportions and psychiatric evaluations, it was found that although the patient was female, mentally she was a male, a condition which is called Gender Dysphoria. The woman successfully completed her gender change surgery two months back, the hospital said. Gayatri underwent bilateral breast removal in 2017 and uterus, ovary and vaginal removal in 2019. She was on male hormone replacement therapy since 2016. According to doctors, when Gayatri arrived at hospital, she had all male characteristics including a beard, hair on the chest, male voice and male behaviours. "We decided to perform penile reconstruction (Phalloplasty) for complete male transformation by the state-of-the-art micro-surgical technique of tissue transfer. Our aim was to give good shape, length, urethra (to pass urine) and erotic sensation to the patient," said Dr Bheem Singh Nanda, Senior Consultant, Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Ganga Ram Hospital. Of all the techniques we chose the forearm as a donor for penile reconstruction. This was a challenging surgery as the penis was fabricated on the forearm with the preservation of vessels and all the important nerves. The next step was to implant the reconstructed penis from the forearm to the genital area of the patient. "The second challenge was to join the urethra (u ...