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'''Top surgery''' is a phrase used in the [[transgender]] community to mean a variety of kinds of gender-validating [[surgery|surgeries]] that can be done on the chest or breasts. This is as opposed to [[bottom surgery]], which is any kind of gender-validating done on the reproductive organs or genitals.
'''Top surgery''' is a phrase used in the [[transgender]] community to mean a variety of kinds of gender-validating [[surgery|surgeries]] that can be done on the chest or breasts. This is as opposed to [[bottom surgery]], which is any kind of gender-validating done on the reproductive organs or genitals.


Some nonbinary people call themselves [[transsexual]] and seek bottom surgery, and some don't. A nonbinary person doesn't need to have or want bottom surgery in order for their gender identity to be valid. This is true for [[transgender]] people of all kinds. Bottom surgery is an option that a person can take on their transition path only if they personally want or need it.
Some nonbinary people call themselves [[transsexual]] and seek bottom surgery, some prefer to avoid this word or not having surgery at all. A nonbinary person doesn't need to have or want bottom surgery in order for their gender identity to be valid. This is true for [[transgender]] people of all kinds. Bottom surgery is an option that a person can take on their transition path only if they personally want or need it.


'''Content warnings:''' This page is not safe for work. Much talk about chest, breasts, and surgery on them.
'''Content warnings:''' This page is not safe for work. Much talk about chest, breasts, and surgery on them.


== Top surgery and gender identity ==
== Top surgery and gender identity ==
For [[transsexual|transsexuals]] with [[binary genders|binary]] [[gender identity|gender identities]], top surgery usually means a fairly specific variety of procedures, depending on the individual's needs to treat their [[gender dysphoria]] or make their body like that of a [[cisgender]] [[dyadic]] person of their own gender. For [[transgender women]], bottom surgery usually means augmenting the size of their breasts, which could have already been developed thanks to [[Hormone therapy]]. For [[transgender men]], it usually means removing the breast tissue from their chest so that it looks flat.
For [[Binary genders|binary]] [[Transgender|trans]] people who want to have surgery, top surgery usually means a fairly specific variety of procedures, depending on the individual's needs to treat their [[gender dysphoria]] or make their body like that of a [[cisgender]] [[dyadic]] person of their own gender. For [[transgender women]], bottom surgery usually means augmenting the size of their breasts, which could have already been developed thanks to [[Hormone therapy]]. For [[transgender men]], it usually means removing the breast tissue from their chest so that it looks flat. As for nonbinary people, it generally depends on which direction they want to transition to.


Resources about top surgery usually put different kinds of surgeries into groups based on whether they are in the female-to-male or male-to-female transition spectrums. In order to make this page's resources useful and helpful to nonbinary people, people born with [[intersex]] conditions, this page instead puts different kinds of surgeries into groups based on how the body is affected. This page is written to use anatomically correct and yet gender-neutral language everywhere possible. This includes calling the surgery patient the "patient" or "person," rather than "woman" or "man," and calling the patient by [[pronouns#they|gender-neutral "they" pronouns]].
Resources about top surgery usually put different kinds of surgeries into groups based on whether they are in the female-to-male or male-to-female transition spectrums. In order to make this page's resources useful and helpful to nonbinary people, people born with [[intersex]] conditions, this page instead puts different kinds of surgeries into groups based on how the body is affected. This page is written to use anatomically correct and yet gender-neutral language everywhere possible. This includes calling the surgery patient the "patient" or "person," rather than "woman" or "man," and calling the patient by [[pronouns#they|gender-neutral "they" pronouns]].