In 2022, 486 Swiss residents were admitted to hospital for one or more gender affirmation operations. The number of medical procedures of this type has been rising steadily since 2018.

In 68% of cases, the aim of the operations carried out was gender reassignment from female to male, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) said in a press release on Thursday. In 32% of cases, the opposite was the case.

The number of interventions remained very low until 2018. It then rose steadily, from 248 in 2019 to 525 in 2022 (an increase of 115%). The increase in male-to-female operations has been more pronounced (123%) than in female-to-male operations (102%).

  • Solivine
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    1 year ago

    That’s wild, I didn’t know female to male was more common. Might make sense if that includes top surgery.

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      1 year ago

      I heard about it on the radio and apparently most of these ftm surgeries were breast removals only.

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      Not sure if it is, although name change data from my country also seems to suggest it, but for surgeries there might be a bias, think ftm need more surgeries and want surgery more often then mtf but I have no data to back this