Quote from: A on August 16, 2013, 03:14:12 AM
When is "now"? TessaM had her surgery this year and I believe he told her that electrolysis was a fine option. She wasn't really planning on it to begin with, but then she decided to have it done to be safe and avoid any risk of awkward hair, since she had the money.
Now is today, as in the welcome pack I received last month:
(PDF OCR scan)
"Hair removal on external genitals before male to female reassignment surgery is debatable.
Hair bearing skin on the penis shaft base with the one step technique stays outside the neo vagina. The
skin that will become the internal lining of the new female genital is the rest of the penis skin, scrotal
skin and a small < perineal flap , I a one square inch of skin that is located one side above the anal
margin on the midline ). If you want a perfect hair free vagina, you need to be sure that no regrowth of
hair has occurred on the area for at least one year after you have finished electrolysis with laser. Even
then, this does not guaranty that no hair will ev€r grow;
The hair roots are either killed or weakened by electrolysis or laser. Those only weakened will regrow.
During surgery hair roots are killed with the cautery on the scrotal skin that is used as a graft [ not on
the < perineal flap > ). During surgery- the hair roots that were weakened are less visible because they
are much smaller than those found untreated areas and could be missed by the surgeon and regrow
later. For this reason, in our experience, expeditive laser or electrolysis treatments are worse than not
having hair removal at all. In fact, We c.an get most hair roots during surgery if they were not
weakened. Regrowth after our surgery is possible but very sparse.
If you want no regrowth at all, you will have to face hours of pain having hair removed and a one year
none growth period.
At this time, we do not feel that hair removal is indicated."
