Table 1.

A Table of the inclusion and exclusion criteria applied to the literature search.

Parameters	Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Journal characteristics	Prospective Retrospective Peer Reviewed English Published in any year Any country of origin	Editorial, Case Report, Abstract, Presentation, Poster, Book Chapter, Opinion articles, Commentaries, Review articles (systematic & narrative) Non-Peer Reviewed Non-English or French
Sample characteristics	Human N > 1 Patient is transgender	Non-human Not facial feminization surgery Patient is cisgender
Methods	Facial feminization surgery (any procedure)	Revision surgery Gender affirming surgery of any region other than the face Non-surgical modalities
Outcomes	Reports quality of life (validated and non-validated tools)	Does not report quality of life
Search Term	((“face femin* surgery” OR “facial femin* surgery” OR “craniofacial femin* surgery”) OR ((face or facial or craniofacial) AND (“gender affirm* surgery” OR “gender confirm* surgery” OR “gender reassign* surgery”))) AND (“quality of life” OR “quality-of-life” OR QoL OR “health related quality of life” OR “health-related quality of life” OR HRQOL OR “FACE-Q” OR FACEQ OR “shortform” or “short form” OR euroqol* OR eq5d OR "eq 5d" OR hql or hqol OR “quality of wellbeing” OR “quality of well-being” OR qowb OR qwb OR hye or hyes OR Likert OR satisfaction OR SHS OR “happ* scale” OR “subjective happ*” OR “questionnaire” OR “quality adjusted life” OR “quality-adjusted life” OR “disutil*” OR rosser OR QESFF1)