(Mis)Gendering bleeding disorders care: A qualitative case study of a trans person with a bleeding disorder
Jul 25, 2024
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Article Category: Case Study
Published Online: Jul 25, 2024
Page range: 84 - 91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jhp-2024-0015
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Gender affirming surgery [12]
| Surgery that removes or augments breast tissue and reshapes the chest to create a more masculine or feminine appearance for transgender and non-binary people | |
| Reconstructive surgery designed to alter a person’s physical appearance to resemble that of the gender they identify with. Surgeries include vaginoplasty (with and without total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy), phalloplasty or metoidioplasty | |
| A range of surgeries designed to change the shape of the face to look more feminine. Surgeries include lip and cheek augmentation, rhinoplasty, and jaw and chin reshaping | |
| A range of surgeries designed to change the shape of the face to look more masculine. Surgeries include Adam’s apple augmentation, rhinoplasty, and jaw and chin augmentation |
Glossary of trans terms [1,2]
| Someone whose gender identity is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth | |
| The act of referring to a trans or non-binary person by the name they were assigned at birth | |
| A process (medical, social and/or legal) an individual undergoes to change their assigned gender at birth to match their perceived gender | |
| Distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and that person’s sex assigned at birth | |
| Referring to a transgender or non-binary person using a pronoun or form of address that does not reflect their gender identity | |
| Having a gender identity that does not conform to the traditional binary beliefs about gender. Individuals who do not identify as either male of female. | |
| When someone is perceived as the gender they identify with rather than their sex assigned at birth | |
| A concept in which individuals are categorised, either by themselves of by their society, as neither male nor female | |
| A person whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned to them at birth | |
| A person who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) but who lives and identifies as a man | |
| A person who was assigned male at birth (AMAB) but who lives and identifies as a woman | |
| Two-spirit people are born either male or female, and sometimes intersex, and identify as a person of the opposite gender or of neither |