What Is Gender Affirming Surgery?
Transgender patients choose from a variety of top, bottom and facial procedures.
By Lisa Esposito, Staff Writer May 25, 2018, at 10:31 a.m.
The official term is "gender dysphoria." It describes a strong conflict between the gender a person is assigned at birth and the gender with which that person identifies. Transgender surgery, also known as gender affirming surgery, gives some trans people a new sense of congruence between their outward bodies and true inner selves. But it's not an easy journey.
Four years ago, Johnny Boucher, a public school teacher in Grand Prairie, Texas, had "top" surgery – removal of both breasts and reconstruction of his chest – at an outpatient surgical center in Plano. The two-hour operation went well and later that day his wife drove him home. By scrimping, saving, fundraising and "begging," Boucher was able to afford the procedure.
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