Tops and Bottoms: Everything You Wanted to Know about Getting Bottom Surgery

October 10, 2022

Our next series of blogs will be all about gender affirming surgeries and some procedures.

Surgery Info

We’ll start with some tips for prep and recovery. From there, we intend to discuss a specific type or style of surgery each week using the following format:

What: What the surgery is

When: Expected prep and recovery

Who: Surgeons who offer the surgery

How: Common surgeon and insurance requirements to access

Why: Some things to think about when choosing your surgery

This series is intended to complement our Gender Affirming Surgery page. It can also be read in conjunction with our previous blogs:

The Blog Schedule

Week One: General Prep and Timelines for Bottom Surgery

Week Two: Nullectomy

Week Three: Vaginectomy

Week Four: Penectomy

Week Five: Orchiectomy with or without Scrotomectomy

Week Six: Phallus-preserving vulva-vaginoplasty

Week Seven: Vaginal-preserving phalloplasty

Week Eight: Phalloplasty

Week Nine: Metoidoplasty

Week Ten: Vulva/Vaginoplasty (penile inversion, peritoneal pull-through, colo)

Week Eleven: Hysterectomy

Week Twelve: Body Contouring

Week Thirteen: Chest Contouring

Week Fourteen: Implants

Week Fifteen: Vocal Surgery

Week Sixteen: Facial Surgeries

Week Seventeen: Botox

Week Eighteen: Fillers

Image of a white person's arm from just above the elbow to the tips of the fingers with hand outspread, inner forearm facing up. Person has reddish brown arm air. Diagrams on the image show a rectangular space on the forearm from the wrist to below the elbow labeled as "Start 1 cm proximal to the wrist crease." Above the arm is an arrow with "12 - 13 cm" indicating the length of the rectangle, and a curved arrow over the arm below the elbow reads 15 cm to indicate the width of the rectangle. An arrow pointing to the middle of the rectangle reads "Most important area (will become the urethra)." Text at the top of the image reads "Hair must be removed from the entire volar (palm side) of the forearm, wrapping onto the dorsal (back side) as necessary to clear a rectangular shape measuring 12 - 13 cm on long axis of forearm by 15 cm around the forearm." | QueerDoc Bottom Surgery intro — Hair removal guide for radial forearm flap phalloplasty.

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