bottom surgery

English

Noun

bottom surgery (countable and uncountable, plural bottom surgeries)

1. (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").

   • 2005 February 13, Jennifer Usher <jennisuzan@earthlink.net>, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-10-17:

     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.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• lower surgery

Hyponyms

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

Coordinate terms

• top surgery
• upper surgery
• chest surgery

Derived terms

• bottom surgeon

Translations

sex reassignment surgery

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• Finnish: alapääleikkaus
• French: chirurgie du bas (fr)