chest surgery

English

Noun

chest surgery (countable and uncountable, plural chest surgeries)

1. (LGBTQ, surgery) Synonym of top surgery
   • 1994 October 27, Kevin Wilson <70641.507@CompuServe.COM>, “tala's raves”, in alt.transgendered‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-25:

     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.

Synonyms

• upper surgery

Coordinate terms

• lower surgery
• bottom surgery

Translations

top surgery — see top surgery