What we need to know is that transsexual surgery can only change the appearance of reproductive organs, but not the nature of sex. After the operation, the transplanted organ can only have extremely weak sexual function and no reproductive ability. It satisfies the psychological needs of transgender people, but deprives them of the right to have children.
Second, when transsexual surgery changes the sex of transsexuals, not only will they face great social pressure, but their families, relatives and friends will also face similar difficulties.
Finally, in any case, sex-change surgery is a traumatic operation, which requires great physical trauma and high economic cost. This is an irreversible operation, so the decision to accept this operation must require transgender people and doctors to be extremely cautious. Therefore, patients must undergo a series of thorough and strict psychological evaluation before entering the surgical procedure.
A recent news that a 72-year-old man had sex-change surgery once again refreshed everyone's understanding of sex change. Transsexuality is no longer a secret topic, but when it comes to transsexuality, there are many things that non-professionals and people who have not experienced it personally don't know.
What makes some people want sex? This situation of 72-year-old people is called transsexuality, and its causes are closely related to many factors such as heredity, environment, physiology and psychology. Although the incidence of transsexuality is not high, foreign statistics show that its incidence is1/50,000 ~ 15, and the ratio of male to female is 3: 15. But its performance is very bad, which will seriously affect study, work and life, and even self-harm and suicide. We analyze two reasons for this mentality.
Congenital genetic determination
I can't find the reason, that is, I have identified my gender from my heart, which may have existed since I was a child, or it may be that a certain detail of my life the day after tomorrow aroused your gender living in my heart. For example, Einar Wegener in "The Danish Girl" inadvertently played his wife's female model, which awakened his sleeping female character and strongly hoped that his physiological characteristics would be changed.
Second, the acquired endocrine causes
In the second case, we can break it down into the following reasons:
Children's parenting mistakes are influenced by the opposite sex environment from an early age. For example, some parents really want a daughter and want to dress their children up as little princesses, so they put on beautiful skirts, fancy hairpins, buy him dolls and braid his hair.
Environmental intervention. Some boys have been playing with their sisters at home since childhood. Over time, I feel that I am no different from my sisters. I speak slowly and become feminine, and my movements become very feminine.
Occupation type. Some women think that today's society is a society where men work hard, but as women, it is inconvenient to walk in the workplace, and employment, further studies and mate selection are not satisfactory, so they are eager to become men and have solid arms. Similarly, some men feel that the responsibility and pressure of being a man are too great, and hope to become a woman and be loved by others.
Others. For example, those who have been hit hard. Professor Xia, a plastic surgeon in the Third Hospital of Beijing Medical University, once treated a man. He claimed that "my mother was the only woman in my family, and my father died young. My brothers are extremely unfilial and always beat my mother. I don't know why all the men in the world are so bad. I would rather be a woman than a man. If I were a woman, I could better honor her old man.
What does it take to have a sex-change operation? The transsexual operation to turn a woman into a man is complicated and difficult. Surgery includes: mastectomy and nipple plastic surgery to make breasts masculine; Excision of genital ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus and vagina; Penile reconstruction includes urethroplasty, supporting tissue implantation and penile shaft plasty, among which urethroplasty is the most difficult. However, there are reports in the United States that the uterus and ovaries can choose not to be removed, and they will still have fertility functions in the future.
At present, sex-change surgery is mainly aimed at men. Surgery includes excision of the original sexual organs and reconstruction of new sexual organs, including laryngectomy, breast augmentation, orchiectomy, urethroplasty, labiaplasty and vaginal reconstruction. The doctor will make an incision in the scrotum, pull open the skin and remove the testicles on both sides. Subsequently, the dorsal plexus that transmits nerve signals to the penis is removed, and then the cavernous body of the penis is removed as completely as possible. Then, the doctor cut the urethra short and put it in the proper position of the artificial vagina, so that they can urinate like normal women, keep the glans flap with neurovascular pedicle and rebuild the clitoris. In the process of female vulva reconstruction, the skin of scrotum will be divided into two parts, and the labia majora and labia minora will be formed by pruning, that is, the inner and outer "lip-like" structures outside the vaginal opening. Male breast tissue is small and the chest is wide. Generally, large-capacity breast prosthesis is implanted under the pectoralis major muscle, and the operation steps are basically the same as those of female breast augmentation.
Traditional sex-change surgery, because the reconstructed organ can only create a visible appearance, has no sexual ability, so transgender people will not take the initiative to ask for sex, relying on long-term use of sex hormones. In the long run, people will have a series of complications such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and breast cancer. EinarWegener of The Danish Girl suffered from severe rejection after receiving uterine transplantation and eventually died of complications. With the development of technology, a dynamic sexual organ is reconstructed for transgender people, so that patients can secrete endogenous hormones and avoid many sequelae. Microsurgery can reduce trauma, and drug therapy can overcome the mutual rejection of the body and make transgender people live a healthy life.
The success and continuous development of sex-change surgery undoubtedly brought hope to a group of people who tried to get rid of their pain through sex-change surgery, but it also undoubtedly brought a series of family, social, ethical and legal problems. No matter what the outside world thinks, transgender people should also strengthen their will exercise and enhance their psychological resilience and adaptability. Transgender people like He and Jin Xing can still live happily after surgery, mainly because of their strong inner heart and adaptability to survival.