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No regrets: Gender-affirming chest surgery in adults has long-term satisfaction (arstechnica.com)
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People who underwent gender-affirming chest reconstruction surgeries as adults have virtually no regrets years later and overwhelmingly high levels of satisfaction with their decision to have the procedure, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery.

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[–] TQuid@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Chest reconstruction surgery would also include breast reductions. So, trans men. That’s who don’t like breasts. On themselves, anyway.

I’m speculating but I’d assume “reconstruction” since they are keeping and sometimes re-using existing tissues. Someone gets facial reconstruction, not construction, if e.g. they get mauled in an animal attack. You are restoring things to what the patient is comfortable with. A trans person may not have been injured but what they want is for their body to be fixed.