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I found some pics from Dr. Devin O’Brien-Coon’s phalloplasty surgeries on transbucket, and they are some of the best phalloplasty results I think I’ve ever seen!!! Holy shit.

And there are pics from someone who had surgery with him who’s nonbinary and had RFF phalloplasty with a scrotoplasty but no vaginectomy, no urethral lengthening, nerve hookup but no “clitoral” (their term) burial into their dick. That’s really interesting - I’ve never seen those options together before, only heard about them. That’s not what I want, but it’s really interesting to see – especially seeing someone specifically nonbinary who’s had phalloplasty, I haven’t seen that before.

Anyway, the more I look at these different phalloplasty photos, and other phalloplasty pics of O’Brien-Coon’s – and some other phalloplasty pics – and think about it, and what I see in my head when I think about the body I need, I have a feeling I’m gonna end up going for phalloplasty – but who the fuck knows.

I definitely am gonna see about setting up a consultation with O’Brien-Coon sometime this year.

I’m also listening to this interview (the longer one to download) with O’Brien-Coon with the nonbinary patient mentioned above about their experience with getting a phalloplasty with him. Here it is: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/gender-affirming-treatment

^ my transition blog

i found out that a surgeon in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins who does trans surgeries does metoidioplasties, not just phalloplasties!! i re-found this blog https://gaytranswerewolf.tumblr.com/tagged/bottom-surgery with a tag full of stuff about his meta and he went to Devin O’Brien-Coon in Bmore this fall!! so important for me to know!!

i still haven’t gotten around to calling surgeons because i don’t have the money for surgeries, i still don’t feel sure enough about what surgery exactly i want, i’m not in the shape i want to be in exactly, and i’ve had other things in my life that took priority.

i moved back to my dad’s last week though for a few different reasons, and he lives out in the middle of nowhere in a small rural town where i partly grew up. i’m stealth here (have been since i think not long after i started T in 2004), and being stealth specifically in such a small, rural area makes me even more conscious of my body dysphoria, more anxious, etc. than i already was basically every fucking day. i’ve packed while sleeping for days since i got here, which i don’t usually do.

i haven’t looked into Devin O’Brien-Coon again yet, and haven’t looked more into others, but i have a list of them on here somewhere. i only remember McGinn, O’Brien-Coon, and Schecter.

^ my transition blog

it is such complete bullshit because of FOSTA/SESTA (anti-sex workers law) that tumblr is banning porn & i guess other nudity on Dec 17!!! fuck that. this ban is gonna cut into a lot of sex workers’ livelihoods! they deserve to make a living just like everyone else does, and tumblr seems to be part of a good way to do that. i have a feeling that a lot of people are gonna ditch tumblr because of this. i’m personally not going to delete my blogs or anything because i wanna keep them for zines (like i wanna keep this one) and other stuff, but i’m in solidarity with people who are. anyway brb deleting all the cool / sexy pics i reblogged on here of genital piercings and bdsm stuff and whatever :C

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READ!! THIS IS MY LAST CHANCE!!!! (This is all I have!!)

My health is actually failing. I’m not being dramatic when I say I could die If I don’t get the medical help I need.

I suffer from chronic illnesses (a rare version of MTHFR HOMOZYGOUS, HIT, DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS, AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE + more) and I am disabled and trans. I am jobless due to my illnesses and I am currently without any necessary resources to survive, be healthy, stable, or safe..

I have a rare blood clotting disease that causes me to be at the HIGHEST RISK possible to have a heart attack, aneurysm, or stroke. This disease has also resulted in multiple major surgeries, and countless other major procedures that have left me with debilitating chronic pain and other disabilities (limited use of my dominate arm, and even tasks like sweeping leave my arms in immense pain). I have two stints in my chest keeping my main vein open to my right arm so the blood can flow to it. And it still has trouble flowing back which causes swelling and excruciating pain in my arm. The main vein in my chest has been patched and dissected from a vein from my thigh because the veins in my right arm and chest are so damaged they weren’t able to save much. I had to get a rib removed because it was pinching my vein and causing clotting during which damaged a lot of muscles in my chest and shoulder causing even more chronic pain. They also wired my chest shut.

So I NEED to have access to good health care. I’m chronically ill with horrible and scary diseases. I’ve already almost died three times, and have been on my death bed twice.. I’m in and out of hospitals constantly, they don’t have the resources to help. I NEED HELP. I NEED TO LEAVE AND MOVE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE!!! Please fucking help me!! Boost my links, donate whatever! I’m grateful for anything !!

I DON’T WANT TO DIE I’ve been fighting for my life since I was 16. I’m taking my health seriously and using the little bit of energy that I have to get shit done.

I’m honestly only asking for the bare minimum of what I need to move, and for rent…

I’m trying to move to Colorado to escape (my abuser and stalker that I have a really traumatic history with. Violence and including assaults) I’m stuck in my hometown right now in northern MN. Where I’m at right now IS NOT safe for me and I NEED to leave..

My friend in Colorado has a place that I can move into ASAP, I just need first and last months rent. I have to move this month or she has to find a different roommate because of her own financial situation, so this is my ONE and only lucky chance!! I NEED to move to Colorado for access to better health care (to keep me alive), and for my own safety.. This is VITAL for my health (mentally and physically).

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Hello there, Friends! My name is Jordyn Wagner and I am writing on behalf of Jo (formerly Joy McCracken). Jo and I are the same age and we grew up together in the Yakima Valley. As adults, we have both been diagnosed with chronic, late-stage Lyme Disease. For me, my battle with Lyme started w...

So, my good friend Jo is really, really sick with late stage Lyme Disease, hasn’t been able to get much better with treatments so far, and doesn’t have the money to keep up with their medical stuff. Their health has declined rapidly even just over the past year, and it’s really scary. They super need money, but if you can’t donate, please please please reblog & signal boost this!! Thanks <3

Also idk yet what’s up with how the info on the fundraiser is written (haven’t heard back from Jo about that yet), but Jo’s name is Jo, they use they/them pronouns, they’re nonbinary. Don’t misgender my friend, k thanks.

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i still get email notifications of new followers and stuff on here every now and then, so reminder that i switched a while ago to a new blog: stimmycore

i guess some people are still following me here? this is a suuuuuper old blog that i really don’t come on anymore. my current one is stimmycore

Yesterday was my last dose of T gel, and I don’t think it was even close to my weaned dose (around 0.4g). Anyway, I’m off T again. Not entirely sure how I feel about it at this time, but it’s too fucking expensive for my very limited budget, it’s not like I’m in puberty mode anymore so it’s just maintenance, T did what I wanted it to do a long time ago, etc. Maybe I’ll change my mind later on, but for now, I think I’m good, I dunno.

Although ideally I want to let my body just chill and readjust, I’m thinking about getting an IUD or something else like that since Trump is gonna be prez (ugh) and I don’t wanna get knocked up or anything, and I’m worried about a lack of access to something like Depo shots, etc. We’ll see.

^also, 5 days ago (Nov 17), i stopped testosterone again

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Had an appointment with a physical medicine & rehab (PM&R) doc (a resident) at an inconveniently-located hospital in the city yesterday. Yesterday was my first day using my crutches in the city also. And I was so incredibly anxious from the election result of fucking Voldemort (trump) that not only did my Lamictal tremor feel worse, but pretty much my entire body was just shaking with anxiety. I couldn’t take more valerian root (herb that can calm anxiety) than my usual one capsule per morning because I’d also already taken Neurontin, and they both can make me drowsy. I took my medium-small backpack with my planner and a notebook and so on in it, and it was awkward getting that off and on, and trying to lean my forearm crutches against walls or across chairs in ways so that they wouldn’t fall over.

Some of the first things that happened at the outpatient PM&R unit was, when I still had my crutches on and the receptionist tried to give me too many things at once to carry back to my chair (which was only a few feet away, but still, c’mon) and the pen started rolling off the clipboard and I couldn’t grab all the papers and my ID and insurance card at once, an older woman came over and told me to sit down and she’d hand me the clipboard and pen, and took it away, without me asking for someone else’s help. I mean, it was ultimately nice of her, but she should have thought to ask if I needed help – I could have (and was going to) just put a bunch of the stuff down and slide the pen under the clip so it wouldn’t fall. I just put my crutches against the wall, put my backpack down, and the woman handed me the stuff. I filled out all the patient intake forms as easily as I usually do, if not more easily, since I’m used to this, and gave the clipboard and forms back to the receptionist. She looked and me and smiled and said in a babying voice, “Good job!” as if I’d performed some monumental task. UGH. I’m not a fucking child, asshat.

I was not very impressed with the PM&R doc. Actually, there were two, both residents, which means they’re still new to being doctors. I’ll call them Resident #1 (my new doctor) and Resident #2 (his coworker). At least Resident #2 was pretty funny and easier and to engage with because he seemed warmer personality-wise. I had to take Resident #1 down a notch and put him in his place in relation to me toward the end of my appointment and it felt really, really good to allow myself that confrontation and for me to come out on top. Still exhausting though.

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so basically i’ve been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP) by the PM&R docs, and my primary doctor basically as well. my neurologist is assuming CP as well, but wants to take a look at my brain MRI that i just had done last week, just in case.

this is the first time in my life that i’ve ever had any real diagnosis regarding my brain injury and its effect on my legs and left arm.

it’s incredibly validating, especially since i stumbled upon PVL (periventricular leukomalacia) back in the springtime just googling my type of brain injury + chronic pain + premature birth, or something like that, and knew that everything fit, and that it tends to lead to CP.

really fucking validating and relieving that that’s what it is and (assuming my MRI confirms PVL as opposed to some other thing) that it’s nothing progressive.

also unofficially-for-now diagnosed with fibromyalgia as one part of my chronic pain. the other part with my legs and left arm now we know is CP. i also have degenerative disc disease in my neck and lower back, but it doesn’t really extend too much beyond those areas according to EMG tests at my neurologist’s office. gonna get tested for different stuff next month to try to cross some potential things out. so far my neurologist and pain doctor think it’s all central. finally getting somewhere.

#don't get excited i'm not coming back to this blog just trying to keep tumblr from deleting it

(From an article I haven’t read yet: “Is it a man or woman? Transitioning and the cis gaze” by Ray Filar. I really like this quote. Btw re: title, do not refer to trans people as it unless they happen to state outright that that’s what pronoun they use, like if they’re nb.) “So ‘transition’, ‘sex change’ or, to some extent, 'coming out’ are cis fantasies. They are cis fantasies that obscure the processes by which cis people create their own genders. Whether cis or trans or gender-nonconforming, gender is never static. Gender identity has no fixed end point: it is a lifetime of changing feelings, experiences, and attitudes. If gender is a set of relationships – to ourselves, to others, to the boxes others put us in – then no adults are the same gender, really, as when they were born, and in ten years they will be different genders still. Medical intervention is not the culmination of a clear process of transition between woman and man or vice versa, it is a set of technologies that help to alleviate body dysphoria at a particular point in time. After the 'transition’ is over, there’s still a lifetime of gendered experience to have. The myth is that identity is contained within anatomy: society is fascinated with changing bodies. The lie is that this ritualized gawping is not erotic. As Jacques points out, mainstream media representation of trans people is almost synonymous with the use of sensationalist 'before’ and 'after’ photos that mask “processes of change, even as they ostensibly reveal them”. Trans peoples’ body alteration must be /seen/. Trans people who do not body modify are ridiculed, or presumed to not exist. This is why some of the UK’s more backwards feminists get so het up over the idea of female or lesbian penises – for them, biology is destiny.“

Today makes one full year since my top surgery. (Left: top surgery day 0. Right: today, day 365.) Life-saving & life-changing & I only wish I had been able to do it years sooner — or, better yet, had everything correct from the beginning. Anyway, my top surgery anniversary feels like my real birthday, so happy birthday to me. ⛅🌈💖🎂🎁

[image: two pictures of a light-skinned man with brown hair and freckles wearing glasses, and looking more or less at the camera. in one picture, he is smiling while standing in a hotel room and wearing a mid-length surgical compression vest underneath a button-up shirt and a zipper sweatshirt. in the other picture, he is in a living room and is has no shirt on so that the fading scars on his hairy, tattooed chest are visible.]

I forgot to reblog this yesterday

Yesterday (March 28, 2015) was my 1st top surgery anniversary. I didn’t do anything special because I was sleep-deprived and busy with dog-sitting.

I’ll take better updated pictures of my chest soon, if I remember to. My pesky right scar has faded a lot more than the last time I posted pics. Mederma works like a charm for me :)

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forgot to reblog this. i’m a bit more than a year post-op now. the pic on the right up there is basically what my chest looks like now. still doing scar treatments.

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Atypical Autism Traits

The [ original source ] for these is highly gendered.

Under the cut, I am retyping the original source in gender-neutral language, as atypical autism traits do not only appear in girls.

If you are Autistic and your autism matches this profile, it does not mean that you must be a girl; it just means your autism is a kind that often gets missed by traditional diagnostic profiles. These traits were commonly found by researchers in cisgender girls, but they are by no means exclusive to cisgender girls.

The traits are split into four categories.

wow, the majority of these things fit me even more specifically than politeyeti’s autistic-written alternative autism criteria & the standard criteria! nice.

#autism #gpoy

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