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Sexual health
Enjoying emotional, physical, and social well-being in regard to one’s sexuality, including free and responsible sexual expression that enriches one’s personal and social life and fulfills one’s sexual rights. Disorders in sexual health can impact a person’s physical and emotional health, as well as his or her relationships and self-image.
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Sexual health
Chest surgery
Health care; Sexual health
Surgical reconstruction to create a more female- or more male-appearing chest. Sometimes also referred to as "top surgery. " Chest surgery is the most common surgical procedure sought by FTMs. For ...
Congenital syphilis
Health care; Sexual health
Syphilis that is transmitted from a woman to her foetus during pregnancy, leading to bone disorders, wasting, loss of sight and/or hearing, deformities, stillbirth, or death of newborn.
Microsurgery
Health care; Sexual health
Surgery utilising a microscope to enable doctors to operate on very small areas. Microsurgery is used to target a specific area and to protect as much of the surrounding healthy tissue as possible.
Gender reassignment surgery
Health care; Sexual health
Surgery to change the appearance of a person's anatomy to match as closely as possible the anatomy of the opposite sex.
Tubal sterilisation
Health care; Sexual health
Surgical blocking of the fallopian tubes that is intended to provide permanent birth control.
Voluntary sterilisation
Health care; Sexual health
Surgically implemented contraception that is intended to be permanent and that is freely chosen.
Cross-sex hormone use
Health care; Sexual health
Taking medication to produce characteristics of a different gender.