bottom surgery
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bottom surgery (countable and uncountable, plural bottom surgeries)
- (LGBT, surgery) Sex reassignment surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.
- 1998 December 13, Lou Sullivan, [Correspondence from Lou Sullivan to Paul Johnson (December 13, 1988)][1]:
- 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").
- 2021, Lucie Fielding, “Unimaginable Bodies”, in Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments[3], e-book edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page [unumbered]:
- 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.
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- labiaplasty
- vaginoplasty
- orchiectomy
- phalloplasty
- metoidioplasty
- scrotoplasty
- vaginectomy
- hysterectomy
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sex reassignment surgery
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