Genital Modification and Mutilation - Voluntary Sex Reassignment

Voluntary Sex Reassignment

People who are transgender may choose to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to help their "mental" gender match their "physical" gender. Transwomen (male-to-female transgender, "MTF") may opt for a vaginoplasty and/or breast augmentation and transmen (female-to-male transgender, "FTM") may opt for a phalloplasty and/or mastectomy. Hijra, a third gender found in the Indian subcontinent, may opt to undergo castration.