Gender-affirming surgical procedures and their psychosocial impacts: an integrative review

Abstract

Objective: Identify the main gender affirmation surgery techniques related to the construction of a neovagina and a neopenis and the consequent impact of these procedures on the mental issues of transgender people. Methods: This is an integrative literature review with an electronic survey of articles selected between August and September 2023, using MEDLINE (International Literature in Health Sciences) and LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences) via the Virtual Health Library (VHL) portal and PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine), portraying the main surgical procedures for gender reassignment and their psychosocial impacts on the transsexual community. Results: 21 articles were obtained that made up the final sample of the present study. Final considerations: Studies point to the satisfaction of transgender individuals after gender affirmation surgeries and consequent improvement in the mental health of this community despite the lack of standardization in measurement methods related to quality of life aspects, which impacts and limits the comparison between Works.