'Gender Confirmation Surgery': What's in a Name?
Category: QUEER VOICES
Most if not all the other names used for the procedure suggest that a person is making a choice to switch genders. This is not about choice; it's about using surgery as one of the therapeutic tools to enable people to be comfortable with their gendered self.
By Loren S. Schechter, M.D., F.A.C.S., Contributor
Board-certified plastic surgeon, 2012-04-21