Cisgender Affirming Surgeries

The gender binary hurts everyone, but is breaking bones a cure?

Illustration depicting common fracture locations of femur. CC BY-SA 3.0 by SMART-Servier Medical Art on Wikimedia Commons.

Last week, BuzzFeed posted an article that went viral, about men who are shorter than average stature getting surgery to increase their height. The limb-lengthening procedure involves deliberately breaking bones in the patient’s legs.