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Title: Ask Matt Monday: Age, Genetics, and Transition
Post by: Shana A on April 05, 2011, 08:56:24 AM
Ask Matt Monday: Age, Genetics, and Transition

April 4, 2011 by Matt Kailey

http://tranifesto.com/2011/04/04/ask-matt-monday-age-genetics-and-transition/ (http://tranifesto.com/2011/04/04/ask-matt-monday-age-genetics-and-transition/)

I have received several questions from readers related to various aspects of age, genetics, and transition, so I thought we could examine them as a group. These generally deal with FTM transition, so I'm hoping that women readers will chime in with information they have related to age, genetics, and MTF transition.

Question 1. A reader writes: "Is it at all possible to get top surgery before age 18 without hormones? I'd like to get top surgery the summer before I enter college. Only thing is, is this even legal? Would getting surgery literally two months from my eighteenth birthday be that big of a deal?"