Gender Affirmation Surgery: A Study of Medical, Psychological, and Societal Aspects.

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A rigid binary gender perspective assumes that only men and women exist, completely ignoring the existence of those who do not identify as either. Our culture often makes an assumption that individuals assigned female at birth will naturally identify as a woman and all women were born with female anatomy - but this is simply not true for everyone. Cisgender people may very well align their gender identity alongside what they were assigned at birth, however others may feel more aligned or express differently than their biological sex. Trans individuals break down traditional ideas about just one single sexual/gender identity by challenging any notion which suggests biology determines our sense of ourselves. For example, transgendered females are still considered to be Women despite being biologically male-born when exploring socially-determined definitions traditionally placed on femininity; proving biological sex does little in predicting someone's self-identity for some trans folks we might meet every day (in differing stages bodily transition).

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