Guest Posts on Gender Transition

Getting FFS reimbursement in Sweden is not simple nor guaranteed, but we now have a guide to help you.  Thanks to a former Facialteam patient, we can now provide detailed instructions on the process of seeking coverage from Swedish government health insurance for facial feminization abroad. Webinar on FFS reimbursement process in Sweden Sign up for a live webinar with this Swedish patient to ask your questions live, on Wednesday, November 17th at 16:00 CET or request the zoom recording if you ar

Lilia's Livestream were inaugurated in 2020, with over 35 live episodes streamed in 2020. Schedules and replays links below--> Current topics with the voices of today It's called "Almost Weekly Wednesdays"!  I’m Lilia and my pronouns are she and hers. I created the 3400+ member Peer group on Facebook in 2012 to create a space where we could all supports one another and as a safe zone that made researching gender affirming services simpler, since the information overload is overwhelming online

Today’s blog features Jecca Blac, who we love! Their dedication to the TGNB and gender-nonconforming community inspires us. Makeup is for anyone. That's right folxs! Anybody. It's particularly helpful to cover some of the bruising and swelling after surgery.  This gender free, vegan makeup brand began with the founder, Jessica Blackler, providing makeup lessons for trans women a few years ago, which sparked what has been built today: a company that visibilizes the grand diversity of gender ident

Several years ago, Pari Roehi came to Facialteam to have a feminizing forehead reconstruction, which changed the volumes of the brow bone and shape of the eye orbits. She was overjoyed with the results, which helped her to gain the confidence she needed to work towards her full potential as a model and artist. Fast forward to 2020. With a rising career ahead of her, she had grown tired of having to photoshop scars and imperfections left from surgeries she had in her teens and twenties.  “I am co

Hey Everyone! Today's blog post is about our collaborative livestreams with a lovely group of makeup experts. The idea was to give some simple makeup tips, tricks and hacks specifically for the FFS patient. First, reps of the gender free, vegan makeup brand Jecca Blac from the UK, who gave us some quick coverup tips alongside Berlin makeup instructor, Nina Kozul.  We also had the pleasure to have "The Pretty Fix" celebrity makeup artist, Melissa Murdick of Los Angeles and help from veteran makeu

At Peach Clinics, collaborating center of Facialteam in Australia, we frequently see distressed clients requiring permanent hair removal before FFS or other gender affirming surgery.  Let's talk about why it is important to do right and which methods really work. Why should permanent hair removal be done prior to surgery? There are a number of reasons. Facialteam recommends that facial hair be mostly eliminated before facial feminisation surgery as it will allow patients to see more definitive r

Vocal Health Tips for a Gender Affirming Voice, by Jordan Ross Jakomin, M.S, CCC-SLP Developing an authentic sounding voice that aligns with one’s gender expression is a goal for many patients across the gender spectrum. Whether you are looking to masculinize, feminize, or neutralize the sound of your voice, it is recommended to seek out assistance from a speech-language pathologist with a background in voice, who is also culturally competent in transgender health care. Attempting to change your

“Hello, it’s me.”  That’s actually the name of my blog, only in Spanish:  Hola Soy Yo.  I’m Franches, a former Facialteam patient.  In this series, I share my personal FFS journey with you. Here I get into the unplanned steps I followed to define which FFS surgery procedures I actually had done. My Personalized List of FFS Surgery Procedures By mid June 2016 I had already decided I was going to have Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS) with Facialteam. To get to that point I had gone through a some

**Christie Block, MA, MS, CCC-SLP, an expert in gender affirming voice care for trans and non-binary (TGNB) speakers, shares her approach in assisting clients with facial exercises for FFS recovery. As a voice specialist who has worked with many transfeminine speakers, I have encountered quite a few clients who undergo FFS during their period of voice training with me. I have been amazed at the level of intricate surgical work done by facial feminization surgeons, and the resilience of my client

“Hello, it’s me.”  That’s actually the name of my blog, only in Spanish:  Hola Soy Yo.  I’m Franches, a former Facialteam patient.  In this series, I share my personal FFS journey with you. Last week, I discussed how online videos were important to my investigation. This post is dedicated to weaving through social media as part of your gender affirming surgery research. Gender affirming surgery research online I use social based websites with a fairly cynical eye. As soon as personal opinions be

“Hello, it’s me.”  That’s actually the name of my blog, only in Spanish:  Hola Soy Yo.  I’m Franches, a former Facialteam patient.  In this third segment of a 4-part series, I share my personal FFS journey with you. Online videos were a big part of my research.  Here I discuss how FFS surgery videos helped my analysis. Sifting through a sea of FFS Surgery Videos There are all sorts of ffs surgery videos on YouTube, on other sites like blogs or surgeons’ websites, that can provide a lot of inform

“Hello, it’s me.”  That’s actually the name of my blog, only in Spanish:  Hola Soy Yo.  I’m Franches, a former Facialteam patient.  In this series, I share my personal FFS journey with you. For this post I focus on what I looked for when checking out the FFS surgeons’ websites. How I used FFS surgeons' websites I believe my early online searches were for “FFS surgeons” which took me to some web pages with transgender resource listings. They didn’t have much more information than lists of surgeon