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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, | 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 [[ | 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]]. | ||