I guess "Top surgery" though _also_ lets you combine both breast augmentation (for trans females) and breast removal (for trans males)
"Bottom surgery" then covers both vaginoplasty and phalloplasty.
I agree that the terms are partly chosen to sound less invasive/serious, but they do _also_ differentiate/categorize in a useful way.
And aren't even 'mastectomy' and 'rhinoplasty' chosen for how they sound?
'Rhinoplasty' sounds much more serious than 'nose job' so it doesn't sound like a vanity project.
'Mastectomy' I think sounds (or sounded - once everyone knows what it means the euphemism treadmill has done its work and they sound the same) less bad than 'breast removal'.
I guess "Top surgery" though _also_ lets you combine both breast augmentation (for trans females) and breast removal (for trans males)
"Bottom surgery" then covers both vaginoplasty and phalloplasty.
I agree that the terms are partly chosen to sound less invasive/serious, but they do _also_ differentiate/categorize in a useful way.
And aren't even 'mastectomy' and 'rhinoplasty' chosen for how they sound?
'Rhinoplasty' sounds much more serious than 'nose job' so it doesn't sound like a vanity project.
'Mastectomy' I think sounds (or sounded - once everyone knows what it means the euphemism treadmill has done its work and they sound the same) less bad than 'breast removal'.