Vaginal weakening can affect transsexuals as well
By Leigh Krietsch Boerner
NEW YORK | Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:33pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-vaginal-weakening-can-affect-transsex-idUSTRE73B6KV20110412(Reuters Health) - Years after transgender surgery, transsexuals can suffer from vaginal prolapse, where muscles around the vagina weaken and neighboring organs bulge in, a Swiss study says.
The condition affects as many as half of women older than 50 who've given birth, but it also occurred in 4 of the 55 transsexuals who participated in the study, according to the paper in Fertility and Sterility.
