Gender-affirming mastectomy is a type of surgery that removes breast tissue, tightens the skin, and can adjust nipple placement to provide the desired results of a more masculine-looking chest. Mastectomies started as a way for surgeons to remove breast cancer and tumors from the breast tissue. However, as of 2022, surgeons also use the procedure as a means of gender-affirming surgery for transgender and non-binary, hereafter TNB, individuals. If a person identifies as transgender, their gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth and the gender they were most likely raised as, which can produce gender dysphoria, a condition that can last a lifetime. Non-binary individuals may have a similar experience, but they identify outside of or between the identifiers of man and woman. Gender-affirming mastectomy, sometimes called top surgery, improves the quality of life for people who seek the appearance of a masculine chest to both better integrate themselves into society and lessen the mental and emotional burden of gender dysphoria.
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- Gender-affirming Mastectomy
- McInnis, Riley (Author)
- Nichols, Cole (Editor)
- Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. (Publisher)
- Arizona Board of Regents (Publisher)
- Technology
- Transgender men
- Transgender youth
- Transgender Children
- Transphobia
- Gender Nonconformity
- Mastectomy
- Mastectomy--Complications
- Gender Reassignment Surgery
- Gender Identity
- Gender Dysphoria
- Gender Confirmation Surgery
- Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Mastectomy, Radical
- Mastectomy, Modified Radical
- Nipples
- Technologies
- gender affirmation
- William S. Halsted
- Top surgery
- Double-incision mastectomy
- Periareolar mastectomy