Sex and gender: gender reassignment surgery regrets

[LibbyJ15]

Hi all,

I have been working on a project that highlights the impact of forced gender reassignment surgery on LGBT persons. I saw on this forum that there are a few of you who post amount political, social and acadmic issues on transgender issues and I was wondering if anyone has come across: forced gender reassignment and what are the practices--community based, professional assistance or other--help to them cope and/or promote wellbeing after surgery, particularly in cases of gender reassignment surgery regret.

Thank you in advance.

[Stavros]

My suggestion, if you are conducting an internet-based search would be to use Google Scholar, which will produce a few results for the specific search term 'Forced Gender Reassignment', most of which relates in fact to 'genital cutting' such as circumcision in boys. There are numerous internet articles or news reports on Iran where it is alleged gender reassignment has been used as a coercive remedy to prevent men and women engaging in mutual sexual conduct -homosexuality per se in Iran is not illegal, but sodomy is and the claim is that many gay men have been 'advised' to have gender reassignment surgery or face prosecution. There are links to such stories here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29832690

http://xpatnation.com/the-controversial-issue-of-gay-men-having-gender-reassignment-surgery-in-iran/#.I60E49Z1h

There is a claim that in parts of South Asia, particularly in Pakistan and India, Hijras kidnap young boys and castrate them, there are two different views on this in the two links here-
http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2014/04/16/kidnapped-castrated-boys-men-deformed-genitals-eunuchs-get-legal-acceptance-india/

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/article/lakshmis-story

The alternative is to join a copyright library which will give you access to electronic databases that will help you find any published sources of research from books and articles to conference papers and theses, but whether or not there has been much research on this topic I cannot say, and you may also be aware that this has been a difficult area of research with competing paradigms from science, anthropology, feminism, 'queer studies' and so on. You may need to identify an academic working in this area and seek advice from them.

[Kojak]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2908057/Wife-chopped-husband-s-penis-discovered-cheated-cut-surgeons-managed-reattach-China.html

And
http://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2015/01/23-women-who-severed-their-partners-penis-for-cheating/