Overview

Top surgery for transgender men is a surgical procedure to remove your breast tissue (subcutaneous mastectomy). It is also called masculinizing chest surgery.

If your breast size is small, you might be able to have surgery that spares your skin, nipple and areola (nipple-sparing subcutaneous mastectomy). If you have larger breasts, you might need to have your nipples and areolas taken off, resized and grafted back into position.

Top surgery for transgender men might be done as a step in the process of treating distress due to a difference between experienced or expressed gender and sex assigned at birth (gender dysphoria). The procedure can help transgender men transition physically to their self-affirmed gender.