Body Contouring Pre-Op: Candidacy and Weight Gain Medically reviewed by Jennifer Richman on February 22, 2024. When it comes to gender-affirming body contouring procedures such as a hip dip fat transfer or buttock lift surgery, formerly called MTF feminizing body contouring, patients often ask how they can maximize their results. Since the degree to which fat can be transferred depends on the amount of fat available for grafting, some patients try to gain as much weight as possible before a transgender body sculpting surgery. Here we explain why rapid weight gain is not an effective tactic for operations like a BBL as well as when we might recommend a candidate …

Transgender BBL: Buttocks Lift or Enhancement Surgery Medically reviewed by Jennifer Richman on February 22, 2024. The most successful procedure to date to give transgender patients a fuller, more stereotypically feminine backside is the buttocks enhancement. Also referred to as the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL), transgender BBL, body sculpting BBL or MTF buttocks lift surgery, or body feminization surgery (BFS), it differs from traditional buttock implants because it uses fat from selected areas of your body (rather than artificial implants) to more naturally enhance your backside. This article explains the risks and other benefits of this multi-step procedure: targeting fat from the abdomen and flanks, then transferring it to the …

Body Feminization Surgery: Trunk Liposuction Medically reviewed by Jennifer Richman on February 22, 2024. Trunk Liposuction is a gender-affirming body contouring procedure for patients looking to reduce the fat that accumulates around the waistline and above the hips. This technique is often discussed as a part of body feminization surgery (BFS), formerly referred to as MTF body contouring, because it creates a lower and a more cinched or contoured waistline in patients, which can approximate a waist-to-hip ratio commonly associated with a typical first estrogenic puberty. This article informs patients what the liposuction procedure in our state-of-the-art San Francisco facilities consists of, as well as the subsequent recovery process. The …

Body Contouring Surgical Options: Masculinization and Androgenization Medically reviewed by Jennifer Richman on February 22, 2024. This article gives an overview of gender affirming liposuction, otherwise known as FTM body contouring, body masculinization surgery (BMS) or androgenizing body sculpting. We go over what the procedure consists of, its benefits, its risks, the recovery process and the long-lasting results that it can yield. Likewise, we review the most common areas that patients who have gone through a full estrogenic puberty frequently wish to target with liposuction to masculinize or androgenize their body shapes: flanks (the space between the ribs and the hip), waist, hips, abdomen, inner thighs, outer thighs, the chest, …