>A surgeon removed Amy’s breasts the day she turned 16.
There was no “psych evaluation,” she said, no mental health assessment before the double mastectomy to explore why she felt so unhappy and miserable with her body.
When her worried parents asked the surgeon if their daughter was old enough to consent, they were assured that the surgeon had worked on even younger patients seeking female-to-male masculinizing chest surgery.
Amy hoped her chest or “top” surgery would be the end of her problems. Then her mental health spiralled.
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>A surgeon removed Amy’s breasts the day she turned 16.
There was no “psych evaluation,” she said, no mental health assessment before the double mastectomy to explore why she felt so unhappy and miserable with her body.
When her worried parents asked the surgeon if their daughter was old enough to consent, they were assured that the surgeon had worked on even younger patients seeking female-to-male masculinizing chest surgery.
Amy hoped her chest or “top” surgery would be the end of her problems. Then her mental health spiralled.