>Sarah:
>>I wrote off-line to Natasha to say that the first two vaginoplasties were
>>conducted in 1931 (although attempts to create a vagina on an essentially
>>female-phenotype person were made in 1761, ouch!). The first phalloplasty
>>was carried out between 1945 and 1948.
>
>Were the subjects adults or babies? Was the surgery voluntary?
Adults and voluntary, to the best of my knowledge: the term 'transvestite'
was applied to the 1931 case, implying there was no intersex or other
geno-/phenotypical sexual characteristic abnormality. The full details are
in Pauly, I.B. (1965) 'Male psychosexual inversion: transsexualism' in
'Archives of General Psychiatry 13: 172-81'. (Unfortunately I don't have
that original text or I'd give more details.)
The 1945-48 (operations took place over several years) case also appears to
have been voluntary, and was conducted on someone who had no intersex, etc.
condition.
Sarah
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