Facial Feminization Surgery Changes Perception of Patient Gender
| Autor: | James P. Bradley, Stephen M. Lu, Kevin Chen, Ben Zhang, Mark Fisher, Marcelo Di Maggio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Social perception media_common.quotation_subject medicine.medical_treatment General Medicine Evidence-based medicine 030230 surgery Preoperative care Facial feminization surgery 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Patient satisfaction Perception medicine Physical therapy Feminization (sociology) Surgery Hormone therapy business health care economics and organizations media_common |
| Zdroj: | Aesthetic Surgery Journal. 40:703-709 |
| ISSN: | 1527-330X 1090-820X |
| DOI: | 10.1093/asj/sjz303 |
| Popis: | Background The goal of facial feminization surgery (FFS) is to feminize the sexually dimorphic characteristics of the face and enable transwomen to be correctly gendered as female. Studies have demonstrated high patient satisfaction with FFS. However, the correct gendering of patients after FFS has never been objectively studied. Objectives The aim of this study was to determine if FFS changed the perceived gender of patients in the public eye. Methods An online survey platform with control photographs of cis-gender males and cis-gender females as well as preoperative and postoperative FFS patients was created. Respondents were asked to identify patients as “male” or “female” and to assign a confidence score ranging from –10 (masculine) to +10 (feminine) (n = 802). Results Cis-gender male and female controls were gendered correctly 99% and 99.38% of the time and with a confidence metric (CM) of –8.96 and 8.93, respectively. Preoperative FFS patients were gendered as female 57.31% of the time with a CM of 1.41 despite hormone therapy, makeup, and hairstyle. Postoperative FFS patients were gendered as female 94.27% of the time with a CM of 7.78. Ninety-five percent of patients showed a significant improvement in CM after FFS. Conclusions This study illustrates that FFS changes the social perception of a patient’s gender. Patients after FFS are more likely to be identified as female and with greater confidence than before surgery. This is despite preoperative female hormone therapy, and nonsurgical methods that patients use to feminize their appearance. Level of Evidence: 4 |
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