Blog
By Nick PeplowGender-affirming surgery coordinator
The words people ask me to translate, the questions that surface in nearly every consultation, and the things a decade of arranging this work has taught me.
If all of this is new, start with the Start Here guide. Come back when you know which operation you're weighing up.
Guides
Terms explained
What does MTF mean?
MTF stands for male to female. What it covers, who still uses it, the words people reach for instead, and what else MTF means elsewhere.
History
Lili Elbe and the First Attempts at Vaginoplasty
Dresden, 1930. A Danish painter, operations nobody had attempted before, a thin record, and how we got from there to here.
New to MTF surgery?
Start with the guide: what each operation actually involves, where hormones stop and surgery begins, and how people decide the order.
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