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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hear so many horror stories from trans masc people in particular who are just not fucking listened to by surgeons. With traumatic consequences, frequently. It makes me furious - every time it's a similar story, they explain that they want no breasts and the doctor goes "well that would look odd, I'll give you a c cup"... Bruh no.

I don't think it's so bad for transfemmes, because "top surgery" in that case is the same (I mean, I assume) as a breast augmentation for a cis woman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t think it’s so bad for transfemmes, because “top surgery” in that case is the same (I mean, I assume) as a breast augmentation for a cis woman.

Bottom surgery is traditionally oriented around male pleasure at the expense of what trans women actually want. The same thing happens to us, and it happens to our genitals

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on this please? I hadn't heard of that before

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

For a lot of surgeons that do bottom surgery, they care more about how it looks rather than how it feels. i.e. they don’t care if you can’t orgasm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh god well I guess that's one more thing to worry about, thanks for the heads up

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To add on, they also care more about depth for penetration than sensation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any advice for finding surgeons that aren't like that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

I haven't done research on it in years