As more men get surgery to reduce their excess breast tissue, they’re freeing themselves of shame in the process

By Arielle Domb

Michael remembers the day he stopped taking off his shirt in public. He was 11. The family was on a fishing trip in Pennsylvania, and because it was so hot, the kids were hanging out by the creek, shirtless. “It looks like I’m going to have to get you a bra,” Michael’s father said to him, looking down at his son’s breasts. “You’re not a man. You’re a woman.”

Decades later, in his 50s, Michael, who asked that his real name not be used, turned to Google with questions about his chest. He figured he probably had gynecomastia—enlarged glandular READ ON