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Aaron Kimberly is a Canadian former nurse and conservative transgender activist. Kimberly is an advisor to SPLC-designated anti-trans hate group Genspect. Kimberly is a founder of conservative groups Gender Dysphoria Alliance and LGBT Courage Coalition (now LGB Courage Coalition).

Kimberly is cohost of the conservative podcast Transparency. Kimberly frequently testifies against gender affirming care for minors and promotes academic work that is frequently characterized as anti-trans.

Kimberly is especially interested in promoting disease models of gender diversity, including “gender dysphoria,” “autogynephilia,” and “autoandrophilia.” Kimberly has occasionally expressed interest in a personal “detransition,” or making additional gender changes.

Background

Aaron Kimberly was reportedly born in 1973. In a self-reported biography, Kimberly makes the following claims:

  • “at age 19 I had surgery to remove a grapefruit-sized cyst from one of my ovaries”
  • following a biopsy was reportedly diagnosed with “Ovotesticular Disorder of Sex Development (DSD)”
  • Kimberly earned a bachelor’s degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 
  • in 2006 saw a documentary on mainstream TV about “trans kids” that led to a trans identification
  • began medical transition that year at age 33
  • in 2008 became a registered nurse/BScN wtih a specialty in Psychiatric Nursing
  • worked in the mental health department at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada, for 10 years
  • In 2017 moved to Kelowna, Canada, to help launch a multidisciplinary youth clinic and do intake assessments
  • consulted with the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)’s Trans Care BC
  • during this consulting, “I started to become confused and concerned about the current state of trans healthcare”
  • began promoting studies by anti-trans psychologists Ray Blanchard, J. Michael Bailey, Kenneth Zucker, Lisa Littman, and Paul Vasey.
  • “I was removed from the clinical mentorship mailing list, I was accused of using the listserv for anti-trans activism, our clinic was boycotted, and I was moved to another program”
  • “this prompted me to create the Gender Dysphoria Alliance (GDA) in January 2021″
  • was registered in British Columbia as a Practising RN from 2008 until that registration was canceled on April 1, 2023

Kimberly then enrolled in the Women’s and Gender Studies graduate program at University of Alberta.

Conservative activism

Kimberly began engaging in conservative activism in 2021 after being alarmed about how the clinic where Kimberly worked was treating trans and gender diverse youth. Kimberly explained to anti-trans activist Pamela Paul:

In 2021, Aaron Kimberly, a 50-year-old trans man and registered nurse, left the clinic in British Columbia where his job focused on the intake and assessment of gender-dysphoric youth. Kimberly received a comprehensive screening when he embarked on his own successful transition at age 33, which resolved the gender dysphoria he experienced from an early age.

But when the gender-affirming model was introduced at his clinic, he was instructed to support the initiation of hormone treatment for incoming patients regardless of whether they had complex mental problems, experiences with trauma or were otherwise “severely unwell,” Kimberly said. When he referred patients for further mental health care rather than immediate hormone treatment, he said he was accused of what they called gatekeeping and had to change jobs.

“I realized something had gone totally off the rails,” Kimberly, who subsequently founded the Gender Dysphoria Alliance and the L.G.B.T. Courage Coalition to advocate better gender care, told me.

In a profile provided to this site in June 2025, Kimberly stated:

My major influences are second wave lesbian feminism and early queer theory. In the early days (1990s), lesbians like Butler and Halberstam conceptualized the FTM experience as a form of female masculinity (eg. Halberstam’s book Female Masculinity, in which she included FTM as under the banner of lesbian masculinities). That’s still a view I hold, in my self-conception. My current work focuses on applications of radical feminism to transmen, looking for ways, throught a sex-realist perspective, at quality of life measures and the nature of our oppression as masculinized/male passing females. 

2024 Stone Butch Disco collaboration

Stone Butch Disco is a Substack newsletter described as “a butch-femme lesbian feminist project: nerd comedy, experiential insights, & alt-academic analysis.”

In September 2024 members of the collective began collaborating on podcast episodes with Kimberly. By November, they announced a split in a since-deleted post:

Aaron repetitively focused conversation onto specific women that Aaron felt slighted by. Due to Rachel and Akiva’s personal histories in abusive relationships, they entertained conversation around uniquely butch vulnerabilities to abuse for a few weeks, culminating in an unreleased 6th podcast episode in which Aaron’s relationships with these women were discussed under the false premise that they were targeting Aaron. It became clear from conversations on and off the recording that Aaron’s treatment of women and especially feminine women was of serious concern. Despite the fact that Rachel requested that Aaron not post the 6th episode anywhere, including on Aaron’s personal channels, Aaron posted it to personal YouTube and Facebook accounts, and used pieces of the audio to harass women via direct message. We were lied to, manipulated, and used. Following these revelations, we removed Aaron from the Stone Butch Disco team.

Kimberly said via email in June 2025 that the announcement was removed “after legal action” because it contained false statements and defamation. Kimberly also stated “my lawyers have evidence that the Statements by both parties are false and defamatory.” This site has requested that evidence for inclusion here. Kimberly provided the following statement:

They fabricated a conspiracy that I only made friends with a couple of butch lesbians for the purpose of lying and manipulating them to harass women. No, I did not. When I left the courage coalition, I made new friendships outside that circle and we generated many ideas for projects that I was excited about, such as an archive about butch lesbians. I built the website. We were ready to launch it. Because I saw them as friends I confided in them some of what I had felt and was processing in regards to interactions I had with certain women. I needed someone to talk to because I was confused by aspects of what had occurred. I couldn’t talk to anyone in the network about it. Meanwhile, those women were plotting behind my back and finding ways to sabotage me in the dark

and taking disrespectful shots at me online to hint they were doing so. They shared private text messages, emails and secretly recorded conversations. They publicly accused me of having mental illness I don’t have and for doing things I didn’t do. I feel played by these women. I expect people to come honest. I fully own that I overstepped some boundaries but I was also misjudged and mistreated. They did psychological harm and when I spoke my truth in defence, they weaponized that against me too. 

The mistake we (Stone Butch Disco) made is trying to engage those other women in a conversation via the podcast. Instead of engaging up front, they contacted the Stone Butch Disco and manipulated them into thinking I’d lied and manipulated them. No. I did not. There was no underhanded scheme going on, on my part, and I was severed from new friendships. I found myself caught in a trap of manipulation, and had to manipulate my way out of it. I’m not normally a manipulative person, at all. I’m blunt to a fault and despise head games. I’ve withdrawn myself entirely from the entire network to get my own head straight and stand in my own truth. I’m focussing on transmen and our needs. I’m not interested in playing dirty games. 

My work is based on respectful conversations about ideas and needs. My ideas are not ones everyone agrees with, but people should not be threatened, intimidated, or coerced, simply for having different views, which aren’t motivated by hate. 

I push back on all hateful activity. People are allowed to hate me. They are not allowed to hurt me just because they have feelings about what I believe.

And I mean you too Andrea. There are more constructive ways to negotiate needs and deal with fears, than tearing people down. I’m not playing this game. Both sides are playing dirty. Someone has to stay in the lane of having peaceful and honest conversations for problem solving. If you believe I’m harming you in some way, then let’s have a conversation. Because your way isn’t working. It just drives more hate. 

Since you’ve publicized where I’m enrolled in an MA program, I’m sure you expect that everyone, both TERFs and the trans-queer community will hate me. What they’ll all find, is that I’m reasonable and easy to engage in respectful and honest conversations across multiple lines of disagreement. And I will expect to be treated with fairness and dignity in return. I will work hard and do well in academia to think things through with care. 

I want to build and mend bridges with human beings on any side of the issue, and I will always preserve myself as a human being who has faults and strengths. My door is always open for honest people who aren’t trying to hurt anyone. I’m not afraid to kick the asses of trespassers (metaphorically speaking). I intend to live in peace. 

If you publish any of this, you must post all of it in whole and exactly how I’ve stated it. 

2024 MIT event

According to anti-trans philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith, Kimberly has exhibited concerning behavior after the two met in 2024 at a debate also attended by anti-trans activists Alex Byrne and Alice Dreger. On February 3, 2025, Lawford-Smith posted:

On the 17th of April 2024, Alex Byrne & I took part in a debate at MIT. Our opponents were Aaron Kimberly and Alice Dreger. Alex and Alice took opposite sides on the question of whether sex is biological and binary, and Aaron and I took opposite sides on the question of whether gender identity should replace sex in social policy. Aaron & I had some friendly communications in the lead-up to the debate, much of which were me making suggestions as to a topic that we could disagree about productively. We met up for a couple of hours on the afternoon of the debate. At the time, Aaron was associated with the LGBT Courage Coalition, and I was occasionally doing freelance interviews for the LGB Alliance Australia. I figured it would be good to establish some kind of link between the two organizations. 

Since April 2024 or so, I have been dealing with inappropriate and unwanted behaviour by Aaron Kimberly. This includes him repeatedly sending emails to my work address (after I had blocked him on Twitter); contacting my friends and colleagues about me; attempting to organize an in-person event to take place on my campus, at which I would be a speaker, without my permission or input; mischaracterizing our brief interaction to mutual acquaintances; publishing a full podcast episode mischaracterizing our interaction; posting three separate Substack articles about me (one sharing personal information about me and embedding deleted video content that I own the copyright to); sending huge volumes of messages to other people about me; and, most recently, contacting my employer. This has all been the aftermath of Aaron making several romantic advances toward me, which I rejected. To say he’s taken rejection badly would appear to be an understatement.

On February 22, 2025, Kimberly posted a lengthy response addressing many of Lawford-Smith’s claims and assertions about their interactions.

References

Kimberly, Aaron (February 22, 2025). Holy, Holly! In response to Holly Lawford-Smith. https://www.aaronkimberly.com/holly-lawford-smith

Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Tweet 4th February 2025 & email to my employer 31st January 2025.

Lawford-Smith, Holly (February 3, 2025). Aaron Kimberly: A Statement. https://hollylawford-smith.org/aaron-kimberly-a-statement/

Stone Butch Disco (Jan 02, 2025). S2 E2: “We’re living in a post postmodern world, get your sh** together!” https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/s2-e2-were-living-in-a-post-postmodern-a4e

Staff (November 25, 2024). Ending our relationship with Aaron Kimberly. Stone Butch Disco https://stonebutchdisco.substack.com/p/ending-our-relationship-with-aaron [deleted]

Paul, Pamela (February 2, 2024). Opinion: As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do. New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html

TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Church of the Maculate Conception: Schrödinger’s Testicle [deleted]

Laval, Mary (July 26, 2021). Transition in hindsight: Aaron Kimberly’s story. Genspect https://genspect.org/transition-in-hindsight-aaron-kimberlys-story/

Selected writing by Kimberly

Kimberly, Aaron (June 26, 2022). GUEST OP-ED: What nobody told me about transition, but should have. True North https://tnc.news/2022/06/26/aaron-kimberly-transition-oped/

Kimberly, Aaron (2003). Autoportrait. Journal of Homosexuality https://doi.org/10.1300/J082v43n03_20

Media

In Response with Joey T. McFadden (March 12, 2025). Sex, Gender, & Politics – #14. https://joeytmcfadden.substack.com/p/sex-gender-and-politics

Something For Everybody with Aaron Machbitz (January 28, 2025). #333 – Aaron Kimberly – Understanding the Trans Experience: Integrators vs. Disruptors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aMF7VrWRi8

The Lesbian Mafia (December 23, 2024). Luigi’s Mom, Cream Puffs & Oh Canada w/ Aaron Kimberly. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-12-23T19_20_12-08_00

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 9, 2024). Dysphoria Means Something Different to Different People with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/dysphoria-means-something-different

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (November 8, 2024). 192 – Paving a Way Back for Detrans Lesbians, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_gsbzVCXE

Heterodorx with Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn (October 30, 2024). Aaron Kimberly Look-a Like a Man. https://heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-150-aaron-kimberly-look-a-like-a-man/

The Lesbian Mafia (October 10, 2024). Reconciling Gender: Aaron Kimberly’s Transition, Detransition, & Whistleblowing. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/thelesbianmafia/episodes/2024-10-09T22_54_54-07_00

The Lesbian Project Podcast (May 24, 2024). Episode 28 FREE – a chat with Aaron Kimberly; plus the music of Chappell Roan, and bars (again). [unavailable]

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). Premium: Bonus Conversation with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.widerlenspod.com/p/bonus-conversation-with-aaron-kimberly

Gender: A Wider Lens with Stella O’Malley and Sasha Ayad (October 6, 2023). 135 – Intersex, Identity, & Ideology with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVwd6cnZtM

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce and Jamie Reed (August 24, 2023). The Corruption of Gender Medicine | with Aaron Kimberly & Jamie Reed. [original title: Challenging Gender Medicine from Within, with Jamie Reed & Aaron Kimberly] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LJjOCiFkdY

The Unspeakable Podcast with Meghan Daum (June 20, 2023). When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3BTIC4dPc

The Rupa Subramanya Show (April 13, 2023). The reality of transitioning from a trans man (Ft. Aaron Kimberly). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInhdKI5mcA

BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis (March 3, 2023). Heterodox Trans People #4: The Aarons. https://www.broadview.news/p/heterodox-trans-people-4-the-aarons

In Context with Gregor S. Thomson (October 14, 2022). Episode 28 – Gender Dysphoria/Trans Issues with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99KkuyMhUE

TT Exulansic on Odysee (February 27, 2022). Metoidioplasty Moments: Double Fistula. https://odysee.com/@Exulansic:d/Metoidioplasty-Moments-Double-Fistula:c

The MARS Show (January 6, 2022). #147 Gender Dysphoria Alliance with Aaron Kimberly & Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwbiuJ22EeA

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (October 27, 2021). s04e17 | Being A Woman Being A Man | A Transitioner’s Tale, with Aaron Terrell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2rLY_jVQI

The Just Checking In Podcast with Freddie Cocker (August 8, 2021). JCIP #90 – Aaron Kimberly. https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-90-aaron-kimberly

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (July 24, 2021). s03e102 | Bullying in the Trans Community, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIDwOk-bvtE

The MARS show (July 15, 2021). #135 Aaron Kimberly on the reality of transition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1gZ_xoMjZc

Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce (May 20, 2021). s03e81 | How Queer Theory Interferes with Good Therapy, with Aaron Kimberly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcjBDi-ZRLA

Resources

Aaron Kimberly (aaronkimberly.com)

Gender Dysphoria Alliance (genderdysphoriaalliance.com)

Lesbros Project (lesbrosproject.com)

Twitter (twitter.com)

Facebook (facebook.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

TikTok (tiktok.com)

Sasha Ayad is a conservative American psychologist and a key figure in anti-transgender extremism. Ayad and collaborator Stella O’Malley are world leaders in the gender critical movement attacking transgender people, especially children.

They promote

Do not under any circumstances go to Ayad for any counseling of any kind. If you are a minor forced to see Ayad, do everything in your power to end the sessions and find a supportive local therapist instead.

Background

Sasha Ayad was born February 1, 1982 and attended University of Houston, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology.

Anti-trans activism

Ayad is connected to a number of anti-trans organizations, most of which are just part of a web farm with reciprocal links to make Ayad’s allies and their fringe ideologies seem more numerous and influential than they are.

These fringe front groups include:

In 2023 Ayad co-authored the anti-trans book When Kids Say They’re Trans: A Guide for Parents with Stella O’Malley and Lisa Marchiano.

Gender: A Wider Lens

Ayad and O’Malley host the podcast Gender: A Wider Lens. The guests include many global leaders in modern conservative and anti-transgender activism.

The Metaphor of Gender

In 2025, Ayad started the YouTube channel The Metaphor of Gender. The early videos are solo presentations of Ayad’s views on gender.

Resources

Wider Lens Consulting (widerlens.consulting)

Inspired Teen Therapy (inspiredteentherapy.com)

Substack (substack.com)

YouTube (youtube.com)

X/Twitter (x.com)

Note: In 2025, this site phased out AI illustrations after artist feedback. The previous illustration is here.

Sam Hope is a British counsellor and trauma specialist who works with our community.

Background

Hope graduated from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College in 2004 with Certificates in Counselling Skills, Therapeutic Counselling, and an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling. In 2007 Hope earned a PTLLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) from South Notts College, followed by a master’s degree in trauma studies at University of Nottingham in 2013. Hope also holds a Diploma in Supervision Studies from Open College.

Hope is an Accredited Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).

References

Hope, Sam (2019). Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 9781784509378

Resources

Hope Counselling & Training (hopecounsellingandtraining.wordpress.com)

Wimon Sirimaharaj is a Thai plastic surgeon who has served our community.

Background

Dr. Wimon earned a diploma in general surgery in 1992 and in plastic and reconstructive surgery in 1995. She trained in the plastic surgery department at Stanford Medical Center in 1997 and Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil, Switzerland in 1998.

Credentials

  • Fellow of International College of Surgeons. (FICS)
  • Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Thailand. (FRCS(T))
  • Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand.
  • Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand.
  • Asian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons. (ASPRS)
  • Oriental Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. (OSAPS)

She previously practiced at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital.

Resources

Dr. Wimon Plastic Surgery (drwimonclinic.com)

Juta Jansi is a Thai plastic surgeon who serves our community. He performs both masculinizing and feminizing bottom surgeries.

He succeeded Greechart Pornsinsirirak at Yanhee Hospital.

Background

Dr. Juta began operating at Yanhee Hospital in Bangkok in 1998. From 2008 to 2018 he was in private practice before returning to Yanhee in 2018.

He earned his medical degree at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in 1984. Other credentials include:

  • Diploma, Thai Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chiangmai University Hospital, 1990
  • Diploma, Thai Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, 1996
  • The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand
  • The Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons of Thailand
  • Cranio-maxillo-Facial Surgery, Taiwan, 1997
  • Microsurgery, 1997, Taiwan

Resources

Yanhee Hospital (yanhee.net)

Sukit Warathamrong is a Thai plastic surgeon who serves our community. He performs feminizing top surgery and masculinizing bottom surgery.

He succeeded Greechart Pornsinsirirak at Yanhee Hospital.

Background

Dr. Sukit earned his medical degree at Siriraj Hospital, Thailand in 1985. He the studied Plastic Surgery at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital earning his certification in 1991. He has practiced at Yanhee International Hospital since 1999.

  • Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Member
  • International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) Member
  • Association of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery of Thailand Member
  • Association of Plastic & Aesthetic Surgery of Thailand

Resources

Yanhee Hospital (yanhee.net)

Vaginoplasty with Manohar Lal Sharma

Contact information:

Address: 17, Nilgiri Apts, Alaknanda, New Delhi-India

Phone: +91-11-6462550,6466275

Mobile – 98100-11580

Website: http://www.geocities.com/genitaliasurgery/

Email: [email protected]

General pages:

LINK: http://geocities.com/manoharls/

Related pages:

LINK: Commercial site

I am working in the field of Plastic and Cosmetic surgery since 1979.
I am practising in New Delhi since 1987.
I am a Senior Consultant in Plastic Surgery at Holy Family hospital and Mool Chand hospital.
New Delhi. India Sex change surgery- Male to FemaleCase selection – Once the psychiatrist has certified surgery can be undertaken.
Person should be essentially healthy.
Preoperative – The surgery is to be done under General anaesthesia.
The penis is degloved out. Testis is removed. A small piece of Glans and prepucial skin hood is taken out based on the vessels/nerve and is used to create new clitoris.
The urethra is brought out in the front below the propsed clitoris .
A hole is created in front of the anal opening.
The degloved penis is inverted into it to create a new vagina.
The desired depth and size of vagina needs to be discussed in advance.
If needed skin is added to this penile skin tube to add to the diameter.
The scrotal skin is tailored to make the Labia.
Dressings are applies. Urinary catheter is put in.
Postoperative- The patient should take full bed rest and let the tissues heal up.
Most of the sutures are removed in 10 days. Others would dissolve away.
Recovery – the new vagina is healed well in three weeks and should become soft in 3- 6 months.
Do not rush for physical relationship till it all healed and softened.
The new vagina will not have any self lubricating mechanism.
These factors will have to be kept in mind at the time of physical relationship.
Also it will be skin lined blind end tube. This skin will need cleaning / hygiene like the rest of the body skin.

Consumer experiences (most recent first)

Vaginoplasty with Fang RH

Contact information:

Address: Department of Surgery Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Phone: 886 -2 -28712121 Department of Surgery 886-2-28757100

Fax:

Website: http://www.vghtpe.gov.tw/doce/

Email: [email protected]

General pages:

Fang, R.-H., Chen, C.-F., and Ma, S. (1992) A new method for clitoroplasty in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 89(4): 679-682.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Aug;112(2):511-4. Anatomic study of vaginal width in male-to-female transsexual surgery. Fang RH, Chen TJ, Chen TH.

Related pages:

Consumer experiences (most recent first)

Vaginoplasty with Chen CF

Contact information:

Address: Department of Surgery Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Phone: 886 -2 -28712121 Department of Surgery 886-2-28757100

Fax:

Website: http://www.vghtpe.gov.tw/doce/

Email: [email protected]

General pages:

Fang, R.-H., Chen, C.-F., and Ma, S. (1992) A new method for clitoroplasty in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 89(4): 679-682.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Aug;112(2):511-4. Anatomic study of vaginal width in male-to-female transsexual surgery. Fang RH, Chen TJ, Chen TH.

Related pages:

Vaginoplasty with Sun-Kyu Lee

Contact information:

Address: 3rd Floor, 1-3 Rex Tower Bldg., Nonhyun-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea

Phone: (822) 547-8338

Fax: (822) 547-8339

Website: http://www.urotop.co.kr/en/specialty_n.htm

Email: [email protected]

General pages:

LINK: http://www.urotop.co.kr/en/w_con4_1.htm

http://www.urotop.co.kr/en/specialists_n.htm (text retrieved August 2003)

Graduated from Chungang University’s College of Medicine
Accredited as an Urology Specialist from Urology Department at Chungang University
Earned Ph.D. from Urology Department at Chungang University’s College of Medicine
Served as the head of Urology Department at Incheon Christian Hospital
Currently serving as a foreign professor at Chungang University’s College of Medicine
Society of Andrology, Member
Korean Association of Urology, Member
Korean Andrology Society, Member
Korean Prostate Society, Member
American Urological Association, Inc. (AUA), Member
Regularly published articles in the Western Medicine section of Weekly Donga, Jong-kyung News, Sunday Seoul, Daily Economics, Sports Entertainment, Entertainment News, Nae-il Newspaper, Weekly Hyundai, Home Doctor, etc.
Appeared in numerous TV shows: MBC’s ‘Amazing Human Body’, KBS’s ‘Ask Anything’, ‘News Today’, and on other networks such as SDN, ICN, and Hanvit, etc.)
Author of “The Lamp of Aladdin does not exist”, published 2001

Dr. Lee’s E-mail: [email protected]

Related pages:

LINK: Commercial site: Male to Female alteration (text below retrieved August 2003)

Male to Female Alteration

Surgical Procedures

Vaginoplasty

The following methods are used to create a neo-vagina; skin grafting method, vaginoplasty using sigmoid colon cut method, penile flap and penile scrotal flap method. Typically, the Penile or Penile Scrotal Inversion technique (by tucking in penile skin into perineum) and Sigmoid Colon Cut Surgery (by lower abdomen incision using its full-thickness grafts) are widely practiced.

(1) Sigmoid Colon Cut Method

Advantages
a. Natural-looking end result of neo-vagina
b. No neo-vaginal contractures
c. The fluid secreted from intestine will act as a natural lubricant during sexual intercourse.
d. Desirable from the functional aspect of neo-vagina.

Disadvantages
a. Prolonged recovery period due to an extensive surgery through abdominal cavity.
b. May develop complications such as peritonitis, intestinal adhesions and necrosis of intestinal graft.

(2) Penile Inversion Method

Advantages
a. Its simple surgical procedure can greatly reduce possible complications and related side effects.
b. No risk of causing peritonitis or intestinal adhesions associated with colostomy.
c. Rapid recovery-Four to six days of hospitalization.

Disadvantages
a. Requires continuous neo-vaginal dialation.
b. Possible neo-vaginal contractures after surgery.
c. Requires artificial lubricant.

2. Neutralization of Adam’s Apple

Although varied from individuals, Adam’s Apple (uvula) is one of the most prominent features of the male anatomy. Adam’s Apple can be eliminated by making small surgical incisions along the skin fold under local anesthesia-leaving almost no scars. If desired, additional work such as neo-vaginoplasty or breast augmentation can be done at the same time. The surgery will take about 30 minutes to one hour and yields no side effects.

3. Voice Surgery

This surgery will readjust the pitch of the patient’s voice. As part of its physical characteristic, vocal cord can be altered using laser and electricity, but it is hard to predict the final outcome and often requires re-operation. However, through the recent indirect treatment using cartilage plate pull method, the patient’s vocal cord can be safely altered from male bandwidth (100-150Hz) to female bandwidth (200-300Hz).

The surgery is conducted by making small incisions on the neck under local anesthesia and will take one hour. It is necessary to allow ample time to rest the voice, and the final result will show in 6 to 12 months. The surgery is recommended before the SRS.

4. Breast Augmentation Surgery

It is a widely practiced surgery to enhance and heighten the patient’s sense of femininity. Can be conducted in conjunction with other operations such as vaginoplasty.