{"id":269553,"date":"2023-06-05T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269553"},"modified":"2023-06-06T07:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T07:01:53","slug":"the-truth-about-transgender-surgery-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269553","title":{"rendered":"The truth about transgender surgery&#8230; in numbers:"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Just 16% of gender dysphoria patients go through with the operation, but up to half suffer life-threatening complications<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>For double flap phalloplasty in transgender men, 53 percent have complications<\/li>\n<li>A detransitioner said: &#8216;Removing my totally healthy uterus is my greatest regret&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Caitlin Tilley \u2013 Daily Mail.com June 3, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Only a small number of people with gender dysphoria have surgery to align their bodies with their desired sex \u2014 but the rate of complications is high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/files.kff.org\/attachment\/REPORT-KFF-The-Washington-Post-Trans-Survey.pdf\"><strong>One of the largest surveys<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of trans adults earlier this year indicated that one in six (16 percent) go under the knife to alter their physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p>But research suggests that up to half of trans men and women suffer post-op issues or pain so severe they need medical attention or additional surgery months later.<\/p>\n<p>The complex operations involve crafting the genitalia of the opposite sex using veins, arteries, muscles and skin from other body parts. The surgeries are risky due to surgeons having to connect delicate and complicated networks of blood vessels, as well as creating the ability to urinate.<\/p>\n<p>For trans men, devices are often implanted to allow them to achieve erections and more enjoyable sexual experiences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<div id=\"attachment_269552\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sex-change-surgery-figures.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269552\" class=\"wp-image-269552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Sex-change-surgery-figures-447x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"917\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-269552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sex change surgery rates have shot up in recent years, with one in six trans adults in the US opting to have gender-affirming surgery. The majority of those who go under the knife have genital surgery (84 percent between 2006-2011), but almost half of the people who have vagina construction surgery suffer complications years later. Most transmen (64 percent) who have penis construction surgery also have issues. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Patients are often left with infections, pain and difficulty using the toilet or having sex post-surgery.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest studies of its kind by the Women&#8217;s College Hospital (WCH) in Ontario, Canada, earlier this year found that more than half of trans women who had &#8216;bottom&#8217; surgery were in so much pain years later they needed medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>For trans men who often have a mechanical device implanted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1743609522005525#fig0001\"><strong>studies<\/strong><\/a> suggest a fifth need the implant removed within a year.<\/p>\n<p>Sex change operations have been at the center of political debate in recent years amid concerns that patients who get them are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11854123\/BMJ-editor-warns-trans-children-rushed-sex-change-surgery.html\"><strong>vulnerable and not fully aware of the risks<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For example, studies suggest those who are transgender are six times more likely to suffer from autism, and up to 70 percent of trans youths are depressed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-12033765\/Just-16-gender-dysphoria-patients-op-half-suffer-life-threatening-complications.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just 16% of gender dysphoria patients go through with the operation, but up to half suffer life-threatening complications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269558,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269553\/revisions\/269558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}