Can hip breadth due to bone structure be reduced without augmentation? (Photo)
I'm FTM transsexual but I transitioned too late (long after estrogen fused my bones most of the way and I stopped growing, started just before 18) to pass. I have been on hormones for 2 years and I can honestly say every single part of my body looks typically male except for my hips which are femininely shaped, they're pretty wide for my height, it causes me a great deal of pain and extreme dysphoria. I have reached out to a handful of surgeons about the potential for this procedure. Out of them all, the most comprehensive response that wasn't simply "No can do, too dangerous" was from Eppley. I'm aware he's controversial, in part due to the risky nature of many of the cases he undertakes, but I genuinely cannot find anyone else who is willing to treat me with dignity instead of simply dismissing me as "mentally unstable" and take my wishes seriously when I say that if I could fix my hip breadth most of my problems would either disappear or become fairly trivial compared to now. I'm aware that I could never walk freely again and I can honestly say, after years of therapy, that it would absolutely still be worth it. What Dr. E said: You are referring to reduction of the lateral prominence of the greater trochanter of the femur. This is an area of the femur where a number of musculoligamentous attachments are. Reduction of this bony prominence requires elevating these attachments which have unknown and potentially adverse short and long-term complications...[char count]

