%0 Journal Article
%T Men¡¯s health and transgender surgery: a urologist¡¯s perspective
%A Maurice M. Garcia
%J Archive of "Translational Andrology and Urology".
%D 2016
%R 10.21037/tau.2016.01.09
%X Genital gender confirming surgery (GCS) offers a wide array of options for people who identify as either transgender or gender non-conforming. The most commonly selected options include creation of a neovagina (male to female, MtF) or a neophallus (female to male, FtM). GCS is somewhat unique among other urologic procedures in that for patients the product of the reconstruction is such a radical departure with respect to each patient¡¯s sense of ¡°self¡± related to their genitals since birth, and, for the fact that the product of the reconstruction is in such plain view
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4837315/