chest surgery

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chest surgery (countable and uncountable, plural chest surgeries)

  1. (LGBTQ, surgery) Synonym of top surgery.
    • 1994 October 27, Kevin Wilson <[email protected]>, “tala's raves”, in alt.transgendered‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 25 November 2021:
      Kevin (who's had chest surgery, and may or may not choose to have genital surgery later on).
    • 2007, Walter Bockting, Eli Coleman, edited by Randi Ettner, Stan Monstrey, and A. Evan Eyler, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery, →ISBN, page 199:
      This reaction usually relates to alteration of the body through hormone therapy and chest surgery.
    • 2020, Tamar Reisman, edited by Marianne J. Legato, The Plasticity of Sex, →ISBN, page 202:
      Unfortunately, there is a paucity of data guiding decision making for asymptomatic, average risk transgender men who have undergone chest surgery.

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