Facial surgery

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Surgeries and procedures

Top surgery Enlarging (breast augmentation) Reducing or removing (mastectomy or breast reduction) Bottom surgery Changes to the gonads Removing testicles (orchiectomy) Removing ovaries (oophorectomy) Changes to the phallus Creating (phalloplasty) Removing (penectomy) Making a clitoris more like a penis (metoidioplasty) Changes to the vagina Creating (vaginoplasty) Removing (vaginectomy) Changes to the labia Changes to the uterus Removing (hysterectomy) Sterilizing (tubal ligation) Stopping periods (uterine ablation) Uterus transplant Combined changes Removing penis and testes (emasculation) Removing most or all genitals (genital nullification) Creating a vulva (Vulvoplasty) Creating a scrotum (scrotoplasty) Sterilization Other surgeries and procedures Adam's apple reduction Facial surgery

Facial surgeries are sought by some transgender and nonbinary individuals as part of their transition. When done on a trans person, the procedures are also called Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS) or Facial Masculinization Surgery (FMS), depending if the person is transfeminine or transmasculine. These types of surgeries are also performed on cisgender men and women in some cases, in which case they may be called Facial Harmonization Surgery.

Even as young children, before being conscious of gender differences, people automatically categorize faces as male or female. This categorization is involuntary and occurs in a split second. Thus, facial surgery is a necessity for some transgender and nonbinary people who wish to pass as their gender.

Facial surgeries for gender transition may include having the hairline moved to create a smaller forehead, having the lips and cheekbones augmented, having the eyelids modified (blepharoplasty), having the nose reshaped (rhinoplasty), having the lips reshaped/"lifted", and/or having the jaw and chin reshaped and resized (mandibular angle reduction and genioplasty). Chondrolaryngoplasty (Adam's apple reduction) is sometimes also done as part of facial feminization surgeries, although it is a surgery on the neck rather than the face.