More than 600 female youth under the age of 18 have had their breasts either fully removed or reduced in Canada since 2018, according to new data provided by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and compiled for National Post.
The CIHI documented hospitalizations and day surgery visits for bilateral mastectomies as part of gender reassignment surgery, with 536 in 2018–2019, and rising to 985 in 2022–2023. A total of 4,071 visits were recorded for mastectomies or breast reductions by transgender individuals, and of those, 602 were carried out on children under the age of 18.
