bottom surgery

noun

Gender-affirming surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.

Meanings

nounbottom surgery (countable and uncountable, plural bottom surgeries)

plural bottom surgeries

  1. countableuncountablemedicineGender-affirming surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.

    Again, there is not a good bottom surgery option for an FTM. I can see why they skip that step. And it is very easy for an FTM to be stealth.

    2005 February 13, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@earthlink.net>, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 17 Oct 2022
    2 more examples

    I am a 37-yr-old female-to-male living full-time as a man since 1980, when I had my mastectomy. Recently completed my bottom surgery ("genitoplasty").

    1998 December 13, Lou Sullivan, [Correspondence from Lou Sullivan to Paul Johnson (December 13, 1988)]

    According to Henry Benjamin, for example, most trans folx were thought to "have no overt sex life at all," at least prior to medical interventions, and particularly bottom surgeries.

    2021, Lucie Fielding, “Unimaginable Bodies”, in Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, e-book edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page [unumbered]

    Synonyms: lower surgery

Synonyms & antonyms

nounGender-affirming surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 下半身變性手術 /下半身变性手术
  • 下半身變性手術 /下半身变性手术 (xiàbànshēn biànxìng shǒushù)sex reassignment surgery
Finnish alapääleikkaus
  • alapääleikkaussex reassignment surgery
French chirurgie du bas
  • chirurgie du bassex reassignment surgery
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