Talk:Facial feminization surgery
Add topicLatest comment: 5 months ago by WikiHelper232 in topic Performed on trans women vs on transfeminine individuals
| This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Facial feminization surgery article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the subject of the article. |
Article policies
|
| Find medical sources: Source guidelines · PubMed · Cochrane · DOAJ · Gale · OpenMD · ScienceDirect · Springer · Trip · Wiley · TWL |
Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 2 months  |
 | This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Facial feminization surgery.
|
 | The contentious topics procedure applies to this article. This article relates to gender-related disputes or controversies or people associated with them. Editors who repeatedly or seriously fail to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behaviour, or any normal editorial process may be blocked or restricted by an administrator. |
Performed on trans women vs on transfeminine individuals
[edit]Hi WikiHelper232, I saw you changed the lede from saying that FFS is performed "almost exclusively on transfeminine individuals" to "almost exclusively on trans wom[e]n." While the source there does mention trans women as receiving FFS, it also says "gender non-conforming individuals" might receive "any masculine or feminine spectrum surgical procedures." Or, if that's too WP:SYNTH for you, these reviews all refer to it being done to transfeminine people, not just trans women. I'd therefore suggest we change it back? radioactOlive(she/it)(talk) 20:48, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Hi,
- the term transfeminine is fairly new in the literature. Just as people used to talk about "male-to-female-transsexuals" decades ago, the same is true for the term transfeminine. In my sample, I’ve noticed an increase in the use of transfeminine in recent years. Nevertheless, in most works, trans woman clearly predominates, or trans women are mentioned first and then transfeminine in the same sentence, as for example here:
- Facial gender-affirming surgery (FGAS) is an overarching term to describe surgical procedures used to feminize the faces of transgender women and trans-feminine or gender diverse patients (Raner, 2024).
- Aside from that, the term trans woman is much more understandable to the lay reader and more common in general usage, not to mention gender-diverse people.
- Personally, I would recommend this phrasing as a compromise:
- FFS is performed almost exclusively on trans women and transfeminine individuals.
- Best regards. – WikiHelper232 (talk) 10:03, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- I might recommend "FFS is performed almost exclusively on trans women and other transfeminine individuals," since trans women are a subset of transfems? But that mostly sounds good to me. radioactOlive(she/it)(talk) 22:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
- That’s fine by me too. I have made the change.
Done: after consensus.- Best regards. – WikiHelper232 (talk) 16:08, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- I might recommend "FFS is performed almost exclusively on trans women and other transfeminine individuals," since trans women are a subset of transfems? But that mostly sounds good to me. radioactOlive(she/it)(talk) 22:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
