Background In the perception of the media and the public, a male-to-female transsexual MTF is a man who's had sex re-assignment surgery SRS, also often rather inaccurately called gender re-assignment surgery - GRS. SRS involves major surgical procedures by which the physical appearance and function of a man's genitalia are altered to those of a woman. But there are other options, there are for example many transsexuals who happily live, work and socialize as women, but who haven't had any surgery at all. Christine Jorgenson, her sex-re-assignment is widely considered to be the first using modern surgical techniques. Some Numbers The first recognized SRS procedure only occurred in , but numbers have grown rapidly ever since. A BBC report in suggested that there were 15, post-SRS transsexuals in the United Kingdom 1 in of the population , although this seems high for the date. A photo from a UK transgendered woman. A significant number of British transwomen still go private mainly to surgeons in Thailand to avoid the long waiting times.


America's Foremost Transgender Woman
‘Sweetie, you’re trans.’
In October , Emily Kaufman, then a year-old junior at the University of Michigan, told her story of trying to join a sorority as an out trans woman to Cosmopolitan. Emily never got a bid to a Michigan sorority — but the same month her story was published, she accomplished another one of her life goals: to undergo gender confirmation surgery. A little over a year later, Emily, now a year-old senior at Michigan and a board member at Point of Pride, a non-profit that supports the trans community, is sharing her experience of what it was really like to undergo gender confirmation surgery. I want people to know the truth. I wanted a vagina even before I came out as trans and started transitioning in I remember thinking, "Maybe I could be a guy with a vagina. I dreamed about it. I used to, about once a week, break down and cry in my room over not having a vagina.
I had to fall in love with my vagina
By Carly Stern For Dailymail. Choosing to undergo gender reassignment surgery is an intensely personal and monumental decision — one that, understandably, many trans people choose not to reveal much about. The magazine has since released a nine-minute video documenting the experience, including interviews with Emmie, her identical twin brother Caleb, her mom, and her plastic surgeon. Scroll down for video. Big change: Emmie Smith, 18, was born Walker but transitioned from male to female as a teen. Brave: She let National Geographic's cameras come along for the momentous occasion. Love: Her mother Kate left , an Episcopal reverend, has been very supportive and was at the hospital for the surgery. Emmie is lucky in that her parents and twin have been very supportive throughout her transitional process, even if it was a shock to come to terms with.
A transgender woman is showing off topless photos to celebrate her boobs, which have grown thanks to the same drug given to menopausal women — and no plastic surgery at all. Customer services assistant Imogen Loxley, 27, credits three years on hormone replacement therapy for her curves. Being him was a degrading chore. Having curves is beautiful. But as she was surrounded by other drag queens removing their dresses and makeup each night, Imogen realised it was more than makeup for her. My home has always been a safe space for me.