Insights into transgender aesthetics: in conversation with Miss International Queen Colombia 2023

The fight for transgender rights is in progress in many parts of the world. Beyond the ongoing policies on trans access to bathrooms and gender change on official documents, it is high time to raise awareness of transgender aesthetic treatments among clinical practitioners.

This comment piece, therefore, ventures deeply into the topic of transgender aesthetic surgeries. Starting with the evolution of transgender healthcare, I move on to explore types of surgeries for transgender individuals. This will be followed by a critique of support for trans aesthetic surgeries in the UK and beyond. Crucially, I look into what aesthetic treatments mean for the transgender community–while it is the job of aesthetic practitioners to focus primarily on patients' physical appearance, of important note is that the connection between body and mind is incredibly complex in the case of trans patients. This is because the dichotomy between body and soul is incredibly complex, problematic, and historically shaped by social ideologies.