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When medical procedures change your sense of gender

I had a hysterectomy and I know I'm still a woman but my body feels like it's lying about who I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Surgical alteration of reproductive organs can disrupt fundamental assumptions about gendered embodiment.

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“Where Are You with Body image and self-perception?”

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