On a mission to demystify bottom surgery for girls like
no the risk of complications is not as high as you think
no you dont need to only go to one of two expensive surgeons, you can get good results in tons of places that your insurance will cover
no you wont lose ur trans status or be exiled from the community
yes you will get wet and cum and have a cute vulva and never need to tuck again
something that needs to be adressed around bottom surgery is that it is SO difficult to find examples of post-recovery patients, which is understandable because hey, its ya genitals, not everyone wants to show them off...
Except that there are myriad examples of how it looks during and immediately after surgery. That isn't the case for any other gender affirming surgery, that the post-surgery images would be so widespread and yet the post-recovery images would be all but absent. You don't even get that for top surgery, it's always bottom surgery. This applies broadly too, not just vaginoplasty but phalloplasty and orchiectomy too. Always bleeding incisions and bruising stitches and never actual results. shits whack
Just verified this, I tried to find "Vaginoplasty post-recovery examples", and all that came up were images of the complications, and mid-surgery images. I am fully convinced this is intentional, to prevent trans people from wanting to get bottom surgery.
Idk if its intentional but it is entirely true that I quite literally had to start hooking up with post op trans women to get an idea of what a trans woman's vagin looks like and how it works!!!
I will never forget when I learned about John Robert Brown and had the moment of clarity where I realized that a lot of scaremongering over what people claim to be routine complications for bottom surgery are actually the results of this man's botched surgeries specifically.
Transphobes are walking around talking about the botched surgeries of a man who lost his medical license and was convicted of second degree murder for his medical negligence as though these are typical results, and it's just absolutely stomach churning for me.
Perhaps not all of them realize this is what's happening (these people tend to spread misinformation like the plague), but the people that started this game of telephone had to know. I have an extremely difficult time believing they didn't know what they were doing and that this wasn't intentional. They'll do anything to stop people from exercising their bodily autonomy.
For a reference of not botched images... We've used transbucket website and r/Transgender_Surgeries on reddit to see volunteered images of different transfeminizing bottom surgery post-op pics in early and later recovery to have a realistic sense of expectations and options. You need a transbucket account and reddit account respectively to see the images (for reddit, to see "nsfw images"). Though fair warning that early and post-recovery images are often posted together. The reddit board also has other useful informations.
The list of websites and surgeons are often U.S. centric, while the wikis tend to have other country options. So, here's some surgery and surgeon options:
From healthytrans, a list of bottom surgery surgeons that accept insurance
TransSurgeriesWiki reddit board surgery wiki page, and TransWiki reddit board page
Insurance cover letter example for out-of-network surgeon, from r/Transgender_Surgeries
Find surgeons in MTFsurgery.net, and find surgeons in transhealthcare.org
There's more options out there but here's some organizations that sometimes cover some gender affirmation surgeries in U.S.: JimCollinsFoundation and GenderBands
Archived post: U.S. insurance that might cover HRT and gender affirmation surgery (including bottom surgery)
General information on Costs and Financing (U.S. centric), from Gender Confirmation Center (a clinic)
Queerdoc has a list of more information on types of gender affirming surgeries, grants to cover costs, pre-surgery preparations n requirements, which have BMI requirements, and other info in different pages on the site
Usually, which insurance are accepted depends on the surgeon, but as long as the surgeon is well-rated and not being warned about, if they accept your insurance and referral it isn't necessary to pick only the most praised surgeons. Each surgeon (that hasn't been blacklisted or warned about) has their own techniques, pros and cons, and merits.
Hopefully with this information, it makes bottom surgery seem less scary for the girls with bottom dysphoria.
