As tensions rise over the medical care of trans children, a new analysis shows hundreds of adolescents in Canada have undergone female-to-male “top surgery” — double mastectomies — over the past five years.
Hospitalizations and day surgery visits for
bilateral mastectomies for gender reassignment surgery have risen
sharply, from 536 in 2018-19, to 985 in fiscal 2022-23, according to
data compiled for National Post by the Canadian Institute for Health
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