Facial feminization surgery the lower lip and is at the edges of the chin. Males tend to have a much more prominent Adam's apple than females following puberty. The Adam's apple can be reduced with a procedure called a chondrolaryngoplasty; the goal of the procedure is to reduce the size without leaving a scar. There are risks of damage to the vocal cords and destabilization of the epiglottis. Beautification and rejuvenation procedures are often performed at the same time as facial feminisation. For example, it is common for eye bags and sagging eyelids to be corrected with a procedure called "blepharoplasty" and many
Birth defects of diethylstilbestrol also have an increased risk of uterine fibroids, and incompetent cervix in adulthood. Studies of DES daughters have not found a link between "in utero" exposure to DES and autoimmune diseases. In an animal model designed to study environmental estrogens, DES turned out to be an obesogen capable of causing adult weight gain in female mice which had been exposed to DES during neonatal development. The excess weight gain was not apparent at birth or in infancy, but occurred in adulthood. Initially, fewer studies documented risks of prenatal exposure to DES on males (referred to as "DES sons"). In the