bottom surgery

noun

plural bottom surgeries

: a type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person's genitalia are altered to align with their gender identity

Connecticut's law has required an individual to have bottom surgery before amending a birth certificate … . The new bill will authorize the issuance of birth certificates …

—Martha Hollister and Tikeyah Whittle

More transgender people in the US are opting for bottom surgery, a report from one of the country's leading medical schools has revealed.

—Jasmine Andersson

Examples of bottom surgery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an international body of experts that writes the standards of gender-affirming care, states that patients must be of the age of majority in order to undergo bottom surgery. —James Factora, Them, 9 Sep. 2024

There are two bottom surgery procedures available that can help achieve that goal: metoidioplasty and phalloplasty. —Quispe López, Them, 19 July 2024

Looking forward, Henson counts down the days until his final set of surgical procedures, a genital reconstruction process commonly called bottom surgery. —Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1994, in the meaning defined above