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bottom surgery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Gender-affirming surgery performed on the reproductive organs, particularly the genitals.
    • 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"). 1998 December 13, Lou Sullivan, [Correspondence from Lou Sullivan to Paul Johnson (December 13, 1988)]:
    • 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. 2021, Lucie Fielding, “Unimaginable Bodies”, in Lucie Fielding, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, e-book edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page [unumbered]:
    • Again, there is not a good bottom surgery option for an FTM. I can see why they skip that step. And it is very easy for an FTM to be stealth. 2005 February 13, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@earthlink.net>, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 17 Oct 2022:

Forms

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Coordinates

chest surgery · upper surgery · top surgery

Deriveds

bottom surgeon

Hypernyms

sex reassignment surgery

Hyponyms

phalloplasty · vaginectomy · hysterectomy · vaginoplasty · orchiectomy · labiaplasty · scrotoplasty · metoidioplasty

Synonyms

lower surgery

Translations (3)

fi alapääleikkaus (sex reassignment surgery) · cmn 下半身變性手術 /下半身变性手术 (sex reassignment surgery) · fr chirurgie du bas (sex reassignment surgery)