I’m a Plastic Surgeon. This “Gender-Affirming” Procedure Is a Scam

I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex.

Each of these “gender-affirming” procedures is grotesque. I want to focus on just one—“top surgery,” a breast procedure that I, as a plastic surgeon, understand well. Top surgery is a euphemism that refers to cutting off a woman’s natural breasts to masculinize her chest. Because most of today’s trans-identifying adolescents are girls, top surgery is the most common gender-related operation, and is performed on girls as young as 13 years old.

Read more in the City Journal.