Number of Brits undergoing gender-changing ops doubles in a decade, fascinating stats reveal 

NHS doctors performed one sex reassignment procedure almost every day last year, figures show.

The record number (355) — obtained through analysis by MailOnline — illustrates the growth of the British trans community.

In comparison, only 146 procedures were performed per year ten years ago.

Such surgeries include so-called “bottom” surgeries, in which biological males have their genitals cut off and the skin shaped into a neo-vagina. Biological females can have a phalloplasty – an operation to create a penis.

The complex surgery allows patients to better match their gender identity.

Nearly 97 percent of surgeries are for men transitioning to women, our analysis of tens of millions of hospitalizations showed.

But the NHS Digital data, which spans almost 20 years, does not provide a breakdown by age of those undergoing the surgeries.

Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend, an organization concerned about the current trend of diagnosing children as trans, said failure to keep track of age could be considered “negligence.”

She said that since older men typically don’t go for full sex reassignment surgery, a young cohort may have driven the surge over the past decade.

‘These young men are far more likely to be just gay, but at adult NHS clinics they are passed on without any proper assessment or investigation.

“Vulnerable young men who are autistic, homosexual or have mental health problems will be ‘confirmed’ as women without question.”

She added: “If it’s a cohort of younger men that pushes these numbers up, this will be the next medical scandal after the Tavistock.”

Ms Davies-Arai said the rising number of proceedings was ‘not surprising given the surge in transgender rights activism over the past decade’.

“What’s worrying is that free treatment on the NHS is now seen as a right for those who don’t suffer from a medically diagnosed condition, but want to change their bodies to match an ‘identity,'” she added.

NS was approached for comment.

A total of 355 sex reassignment operations were recorded in England between April 2021 and March 2022.

The majority of these (333) were listed as being for male to female transformation.

The NHS data analyzed by MailOnline, based solely on hospitalization statistics, does not take into account individual patients. For example, some patients have required multiple surgeries within the 12-month period.

Nor does it break down the type of operation that each shot received.

The number of male to female procedures performed in the NHS vastly dwarfs the number of female to male operations

Procedures are being carried out on Britons who have lived for more than a year as their preferred gender identity and now want their physical appearance modified to match it

For trans men, such procedures may include the surgical removal of the breasts and the construction of a penis and scrotum.

Trans women can undergo complicated surgeries to remove their genitals and replace them with an artificial vagina.

Cosmetic surgery such as facial feminisation and breast implants are not routinely available on the NHS and are therefore unlikely to be included in the data.

The dataset also only includes patients who have undergone surgery in an NHS hospital or a private service provider appointed by the health service.

This means that British trans people who have undergone surgery in private are not included in the total.

The total number of such procedures performed in 2021/22 is 38 percent higher than before the pandemic.

Looking at the last 20 years of NHS data, the increase is even stronger, with almost five times as many sex transformations in the NHS as in 2001.

The NHS did not record the age of the patients undergoing sex transformations.

Sources said this is due to a change made in 2016 – with this information being redacted by hospitals due to the ‘sensitivity’ of such information.

But data from the last year on record, 2015, revealed that the average age of trans women, a biological male who wanted surgery to look more feminine, was 44.

Trans men, biological women who identify as men, had an average age of 23 that year.

The NHS data also showed that the number of trans women seeking surgery to better match their female gender identity far exceeds the number of trans men.

In the NHS, just over 2,900 admissions have been recorded for female-to-male sex transformation surgery over the past two decades. This represents 97 percent of total admissions.

What is behind this gender imbalance is unclear.

This diagram shows a method surgeons use to create a new penis, which involves harvesting skin and blood vessels from another part of the body, such as the forearm, and attaching it to the groin. After a recovery period, the medics then connect it to the bladder, which allows the patient to urinate from the penis and also form a new scrotum. The final stage is adding an implant that allows the patient to get an erection. The operation can be offered to both trans patients as part of gender reassignment surgery and to biological men whose genitals have been damaged

Waiting lists for such operations in the NHS are extreme, and campaign groups estimate there are some Currently, 2,000 trans men are waiting for a phalloplastythe surgical creation of a penis.

This is partly due to the complexity of such a difficult and specialist operation, with only a limited number of surgeons in the UK performing these procedures.

According to NHS data, people who wanted male-to-female operations waited an average of 129 days for their surgery, while those who wanted female-to-male procedures only had to wait 48 days.

Trans health in the UK has come under scrutiny in recent years, particularly with regard to hormone treatments given to children who question their gender.

The health service’s controversial Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the only service of its kind for children, based in London’s Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust, was set to close in July 2022 after inspectors rated it ‘inadequate’.

Mental health issues were “overshadowed” in favor of gender identity treatment, it turned out. The clinic was accused of rushing children into puberty and blocking drugs by former patients who felt they were not challenged enough.

However, GIDS will now remain open until at least March 2024 as the establishment of two new regional hubs – which will replace them – is taking longer than expected.

On the other hand, adults who want gender-affirming care have criticized the long wait for care on the NHS.

Health care rules state that people must have transitioned socially, meaning living as their new gender identity, for at least a year before they are eligible for taxpayer-funded surgeries.