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'''Bottom 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 reproductive organs or genitals. This is as opposed to [[top surgery]], which is any kind of gender-validating done on the chest or breasts. | '''Bottom 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 reproductive organs or genitals. This is as opposed to [[top surgery]], which is any kind of gender-validating done on the chest or breasts. | ||
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 genitals, reproductive organs, and surgery on them. | '''Content warnings:''' This page is not safe for work. Much talk about genitals, reproductive organs, and surgery on them. | ||
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==Bottom surgery and gender identity== | ==Bottom surgery and gender identity== | ||
For [[ | For [[Binary genders|binary]] [[Transgender|trans]] people who want to have surgery, bottom 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 taking away the gonads (orchiectomy) and perhaps also making a vagina (vaginoplasty). For [[transgender men]], bottom surgery usually means making a penis (metaoidoplasty or phalloplasty), and perhaps also taking away the uterus (hysterectomy) and maybe the vagina as well (vaginectomy). Trans women and trans men need not have their goal with bottom surgery to make their genitals as much like those of a cisgender woman or cisgender man as possible, unless if that is what they personally want or need. | ||
Nonbinary people may want to have bottom surgery as well. In particular, they may want to find out about a much wider variety of ways to change their genitals and reproductive organs, without necessarily having their goal to make theirs look as much like those of a cisgender dyadic person. For this reason, this page lists many other kinds of body modifications to the reproductive organs and genitals. Some of these are not usually called "bottom surgery." | |||
Resources about bottom 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, and people seeking kinds of bottom surgery that aren't about making their genitals like that of a cisgender dyadic person, this page instead puts different kinds of surgeries into groups based on which parts of the body they change. 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 bottom 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, and people seeking kinds of bottom surgery that aren't about making their genitals like that of a cisgender dyadic person, this page instead puts different kinds of surgeries into groups based on which parts of the body they change. 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]]. | ||