Nowadays specialists classified intersex surgery types into masculinizing surgery procedures performed to make the patient's genitalia look like typical male genitalia, and feminizing surgery procedures performed to make the patient's genitalia look like a typical female genitalia.
Masculinizing surgery procedures:
Hypospadias and orchiopexy repair are the commonest of the intersex surgery types, also known as genital corrective surgery, performed on infant boys, yet most patients of this kind do not have any other abnormalities, thus they cannot be considered to have intersex conditions.
Orchiopexy is performed to repair cryptorchidism (undescended testicles). It is the second commonest of intersex surgery types (after circumcision) performed on infant masculine genitalia. The surgeon shifts one or both testicles from an inguinal or abdominal position into the scrotum.
Hypospadias repair is a comparatively simple procedure in case the hypospadias is in its 1st or 2nd degree. Repair of a hypospadias in its 3rd degree is more challenging, could be done in steps, and has a major rate of complications and deficient outcomes.
The other intersex surgery types described by medical specialists are the following:
- Gonadectomy (also known as orchiectomy), a procedure referring to removal of the gonads.
- Chordee release, referring to cutting of ventral skin of the penis and copulative tissue to straighten and free the penis.
- Cloacal repair, one of the most complicated intersex surgery types described here. The repair normally involves the bladder closure, the anterior abdominal wall closure, permanent or temporary colostomy and the rectum reconstruction.
- Phalloplasty, which is a common term for any penile reconstruction.
- Hysterectomy, that is, removal of the uterus.
- Implantation of testicular prostheses (plastic ovoids) in the scrotum.
- Penile augmentation surgery, intended to enlarge the small penis.
Feminizing surgical procedures:
- Clitorectomy is a procedure of amputation or removal of the clitoris.
- Clitoroplasty, refers to any surgical procedure intended to reconstruct the clitoris. Clitoral reduction and recession can as well be described as clitoroplasty.
- Vaginoplasty, an operation performed to construct or reconstruct the vagina. The construction of a completely new vagina ("neovagina") in the male patient's body is one of the most complex intersex surgery types.
- Gonadectomy, a surgery to remove the gonads.
- Bladder exstrophy and cloacal exstrophy repair, procedures that normally require significant surgical reconstruction of the whole perineum. Afterwards, the ovaries and the uterus are usually formed.
However, you should also bear in mind that:
There are certain approaches or techniques for each of these procedures. Some variants of procedures are needed to differ degrees of rigour of the abnormalities. Different methods have been invented lately to diminish complications connected with earlier methods. Certain intersex surgery types have been brought out recently. Some were considered old-fashioned for decades. Some infants need combined intersex surgery types.
So now you know. Modern medicine can change or cure just about anything.