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Is Gender Transition Surgery A Difficult Surgery?

Gender transition surgery is a difficult operation that lasts a long time. Gender transition surgery, especially from female to male, is more difficult because microsurgery is used. The veins and nerves are sewn up, tissue transplantation is performed and the tissue is expected to hold.

Is surgery Painful?

Gender transition surgery is a surgery that involves difficult operations and cuts. There will be pains in the area where the operation is performed after anesthesia. During these periods of pain, doctors will relieve the individual by applying painkillers.

How Many Hours Does Surgeries Take?

The time interval varies depending on the type of surgery. Breast surgery lasts from 2 to 4 hours, while penile surgery or vagina surgery can be extended to 6 to 12 hours.

How Long Can healing Be After Surgeries?

The answer to this question may vary depending on the type of surgery being performed and according to the speed of the level of recovery. For example, when it is 3-4 months after breast surgery, this period can take up to 6 months because the nerve vessels of an individual who switches from the female body to the male body are sewn through microsurgery.Age, the body’s self-repair process can lengthen and shorten this period.

Is There an Age Limit? Does Age Affect Surgery ?

In Order to undergo gender surgery legally in Turkey, you must be at least 18 years old. The age condition affects the surgery because it is the surgery in question and is performed under anesthesia.

How Often Should I Go to Doctor for Check up?

Gender transition surgeries are done under anesthesia, because of the gradual surgeries, doctors should make an appointment and check regularly. Especially the first month after surgery is very important and regular checks are important for the health of the patient.

Are There Any Places I Can Get Psychological Support?

The gender transition process is a difficult process that exhausts the individual psychologically. In accordance with the legal process, the patient will be checked by a psychiatrist during the gender transition phase. Psychological support will be received from the same person in the future, as well as support from other private companies, professional teams and psychologists. As International Sexology, we provide personalized psychological assistance and familial support. We are a team that provides psychological support to both the individual’s family and individual by knowledgeable, experienced, educated psychologists who are focused on transgender individuals.

Do The Doctors Recommend To Take Rest? When Can I Return To My Daily Life?

The resting report is given a certain period according to the type, difficulty and process of the individual’s operation. When the individual returns to his daily life, there will be a resting report so that there will be no problems. It is up to the doctor to report shorter or longer rest.

Does Hormone Therapy Make You Gain Weight?

Gender transition surgeries are a process that requires hormone treatments before and after. Hormone therapy can be applied at certain doses taking into account the age, weight, health status of the individual. Since hormone drugs are fatty drugs, there is still a possibility of weight gain in this process.

Can Aesthetic Procedures Be Done at the Same Time?

Depending on the type of surgery to be performed, some plastic surgeries can be performed at the same time. Aesthetic operations can be performed at the same time, based on the individual’s needs, age, and health status, unless there are difficult surgeries such as gender transition surgery from female to male.

Who is the Best Doctor? Is There Such A Thing?

Gender transition surgeries are very comprehensive, difficult and require experience. When choosing a doctor, the person should choose an experienced, infrastructure doctor altogether, and most importantly, the etranssexual should be able to say own requests comfortably to doctor. If an operation is performed in the dilemma of a patient who cannot tell the doctor what they want, or a doctors who do not listen to their patient, the patient may not be satisfied with the outcome of the surgery and his psychology may be affected. Patiently listening to the patient, the patient’s Choosing doctors who make themselves able to explain what they expect, who love their profession, who are experienced, who do their job with precision, will be the most beneficial for the patient.

How Successful Is It Abroad?

Gender transition surgeries are a type of surgery that should be performed with the team during the creation of genital organs. The success rate depends on the experience, skill and center of the team that will perform the surgery. From this point of view, gender transition surgeries are not based on the countries, but to the experience of the team that will perform the surgery and how many times they have performed these surgeries.Sample results should be seen and evaluation should be made accordingly.

What is the Success Rate in Turkey?

Although there is no clear statistical data on this subject, the success rate has increased considerably compared to previous years, given the shared results. We are a rare team in Turkey that performs this surgery. We have carried out successful operations many times and brought an innovation to the success rates of trans operations in Turkey.

How Important is the number of surgeries attended by the Doctors Who Performed the Surgery?

The more surgeries a doctor enters and improves himself and gains practicality, the more success rate increases in surgeries. This is another important factor when choosing the doctor to operate. Each of our doctors has specialised in their fields and performed thousands of surgeries.

Does SGK(SSI) Cover Gender Transition Surgery?

The Social Security Institution (SSI-SGK) announced that the costs of gender transition surgeries between 2013-14, including prosthesis, were under the assurance of SSI. However, some problems can still occur in this practice and should be thoroughly investigated. Other transgender individuals who do not require state security can have their surgeries in the private sector for a certain fee. We are under the name of the private institution that performs these surgeries with our professional team in the field.

Can My Request for Surgery Be Rejected?

Article 40 of the Turkish Civil Code,İn accordance with the article, gender transition surgeries in Turkey are legal. However, in order to have these surgeries, it is necessary to meet the legal requirements. Under the law, you must be monitored by a council at a university hospital for at least one year. Report from hospital after 1 year you can get your gender transition surgery permit with . As long as you do not meet these requirements, you will not be able to obtain your surgical permission.

How to Choose Hospitals or Clinics?

First, you need to know which hospital the doctor you’re going to have surgery for, and do research for that hospital. Since multiple surgical interventions are performed, it is imperative that the hospital is a full-fledged hospital in all respects. Hygiene, cleaning in terms of compliance with certain conditions, surgery equipment is not missing, being comfortable is another important element.

Will There Be After Care After Surgery?

These are the operations that involve microsurgery, stitches are used, and cuts are made according to the type of sex transition surgery. According to the method you will do by surgeons, the rate of scars remaining varies. Paying attention to the care of the area where surgery is performed during the recovery process after surgery, sensitive care to the area will reduce the rate of trace stay. Some trace creams after surgery and gels will help to reduce the scar remaining.

Is it clear I had surgery?

It can be understood for a certain period of time as there are surgical traces in the bodies of individuals who have sex transition surgery. It can be very difficult to understand an individual who has successfully completed all their processes and has closed the operating marks. It also varies according to the area where the surgery is performed and the method.

Can I Keep Up With Society?

A transgender individual who was previously known as a different person may find it difficult to adapt to society with their new body after their surgeries. It can be despised or excluded by people. It is very important to provide psychological support to the individual in this process. You can get support by contacting non-governmental organizations and associations. After surgery, you can easily get through the process of adaptation to society by contacting psychologically supporting companies.

Can My Surgery Be Cancelled or Postponed?

In the case of the individual’s health status, which will undergo gender transition surgery, doctors can postpone or cancel the surgery to a later date in order to wait for the best time. The important thing here is that the person who will have surgery is healthy both psychologically and physiologically. Individuals who do not feel psychologically ready can prolong this time and wait until they are ready.

How Much Are The Price of Gender Transition Surgery?

Gender transition surgeries are not the kind of surgeries that can be performed by every doctor. These surgeries are extensive operations that require experience and knowledge, have a lot of surgical equipment. doctors who have already done so should undergo surgery. Likewise, it is very important that the hospital is a hospital where this surgery was performed before. That’s why every center and every team in the world has different prices. At the same time, prices vary because breast surgery, aesthetics, penis, vagina surgeries are all different operations.

Reproduction After Gender Transition Surgery

Although genitals are performed in gender transition operations, sperm secretion or ovarian there is no such thing as reproduction. It is possible that individuals who transition from gender only have children through surrogacy or through sperm donation. Reproductive activity is outside of this issue as a result of the surgeries of dual-sex individuals.

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