Nurse practitioner Sophie Brooks presents a trauma-aware injectable case study in gender-affirming facial feminisation
The concept of gender being fluid is becoming more widely accepted within society. As a result gender-diverse, transgender and non-binary patients are a population seeking non-surgical aesthetic treatments to affirm their gender identity.¹⁻³ Gender-affirming aesthetics (GAA) is a specialist service that focuses on supporting individuals to feel more aligned with their gender identity through sensitive, ethical and patient-centred care. For some transgender women, facial features can play a significant role in gender dysphoria, particularly where skeletal and soft tissue characteristics shaped by testosterone exposure during puberty conflict with an individual’s gender identity.¹ Injectable treatments offer non-surgical options to soften, harmonise and feminise facial features, although they cannot reduce underlying bone structure which has been influenced by testosterone.² Instead, the…
