Do the male to females keep their prostate?
No, the prostate is generally retained, except in rare cases where it is accidentally damaged during the process of creating a vaginal cavity within the perineum.
Prostatectomy is an extremely serious surgical procedure, which often results in severe, life-long side effects such as urinary incontinence.
But in post-op male-to-fem trannies, the prostate shrinks to almost nothing, due to the combined effects of androgen deprivation and estrogen supplementation.
Post-op trannies generally do require hormone therapy for life, but so do a lot of women, at least after menopause (and during their fertile years, many are on hormone therapy for contraceptive purposes as well).
So-called "neo-vaginas" (tranny vaginas) do not have any natural lubrication, and so require some form of lubricant to have sex. On the other hand, neither do born women, at any other time than during their reproductive years. After menopause, they too require lube to have sex.
It's very interesting to me. Yes, I'm sure a post-op tranny's body and hormones differ from those of a born woman, but women's bodies also differ so much from one phase of life to another that who really gives a crap?
Nature never intended post-menopausal females to have sex. They're obviously not meant to, biologically or hormonally speaking. Yet most of them do, and they use whatever artificial aids are necessary to make this possible, and nobody frowns upon it.
That right there proves that this objection to transexuals as "unnatural" is a fallacy.
Do you hang around at Walgreen's persecuting 55-year-old grandmothers who are attempting to purchase Replens or K-Y in an effort to make marital relations a continuing possibility?