Emery Potter

Keywords transgender transmasculine vaginal microbiota local inflammation gender-affirming care testosterone therapy 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing microbiome prevotella Research topic(s) CP: microbiology Introduction Recent estimates from UCLA’s School of Law Williams Institute reveal that approximately 0.5% of the US adults, i.e., more than 1.3 million individuals, identify as transgender or gender diverse (referred to as transgender individuals herein), signifying that their gender...

Keywords microbiota gender-affirming care transgender health sexual health vaginoplasty neovagina Research topic(s) CP: microbiology Introduction In 2021, more than 100,000 Canadian adults (0.33%) identified as transgender or non-binary, meaning that their gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth.1 Transfeminine people are a group of individuals who were assigned male at birth but do not have a masculine gender identity.

Many transgender and gender-diverse individuals who are assigned male at birth undergo penile inversion vaginoplasty to create vulvar anatomy and a vaginal canal using penile and scrotal skin.1 This surgery has low rates of major complications but the frequency and consequences of minor nonsurgical complications may not be captured well in the literature.2-4 Of the minor complications affecting patients following vaginoplasty, hypergranulation tissue is relatively common and...