From this NHS web page on gender dysphoria treatments, I've taken the key information and pasted it below:
Surgery for trans men
Common chest procedures for trans men (trans-masculine people) include:
removal of both breasts (bilateral mastectomy) and associated chest reconstruction
nipple repositioning
dermal implant and tattoo
Gender surgery for trans men includes:
construction of a penis (phalloplasty or metoidioplasty)
construction of a scrotum (scrotoplasty) and testicular implants
a penile implant
Removal of the womb (hysterectomy) and the ovaries and fallopian tubes (salpingo-oophorectomy) may also be considered.
Surgery for trans women
Gender surgery for trans women includes:
removal of the testes (orchidectomy)
removal of the penis (penectomy)
construction of a vagina (vaginoplasty)
construction of a vulva (vulvoplasty)
construction of a clitoris (clitoroplasty)
Breast implants for trans women (trans-feminine people) are not routinely available on the NHS.
Facial feminisation surgery and hair transplants are not routinely available on the NHS.
I had rushed ahead in drawing the line for the feminizing side, and then put the surgery types going across, rather than downwards at the cross sections, followed by post-op and check-in - see the masculinizing side as to how this should have been laid out!! The idea is that you hit an interchange at the operation point of which surgery(ies) you're having, before continuing to post-op.
However, as always, I didn't read the full information before rushing into drawing and so didn't read (and remember) about hysterectomies!!
Despite wanting a hysterectomy myself, to be rid of the pain these internal organs cause me, I hadn’t thought about that so far when creating the map. That there’s two sides to lower surgery: removing existing organs and/or anatomy, and constructing new anatomy.
It was thinking about a hysterectomy that then led to the realisation I hadn’t considered fertility on the map so far, hence why it’s squeezed in there as an after thought:
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