HISTORY OF GENITAL SURGERY

GENITAL SURGERY TIMELINE [1,2]

1906

Intersex man Karl M. Baer gets multiple surgeries (records burned by Nazis) [3].

1917

Dr. Alan L. Hart gets a hysterectomy and socially transitions [4].

1936

First reports of (abdominal) phalloplasty for cisgender men [5].

2008

Combined flap phalloplasty first performed [13].

2022

Extended metoidioplasty first reported [14].

1939

Dr. Michael Dillon is the first person documented to take testosterone to medically transition [5].

1946

Dr. Michael Dillon is the first trans person to undergo (abdominal) phalloplasty, performed by Dr. Harold Gillies [5].

1972

The pedicled groin flap is introduced for phalloplasty for cisgender men [5].

1973

First reports of metoidioplasty [6].

1982

First RFF phalloplasty [5].

1984

First RFF phalloplasty performed using the “tube-within-a-tube” technique [5].

1986

Vaginal mucosa used for urethral reconstruction in phalloplasty [7].

1993

First reports of use of V-Y scrotoplasty technique to create a hanging scrotum [8].

1999

MLD phalloplasty first performed [9].

2003

ALT phalloplasty first performed [10].

2006

SCIP phalloplasty first performed [11].

2007

Extensive metoidioplasty first performed [12].