Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging
My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.
The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!
I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!
So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.
Signed,
A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.
botox, which is also maligned in a similar way is used extensively for the treatment of chronic pain and muscular disorders! two very common uses are to treat migraines and bruxism or tmj disorder with injections into muscles of the head including the frontalis, the procerus, the corrugator supercili and the masseter - and all of these medically necessary applications were discovered due to people seeking botox from those who perform it for "forehead wrinkles" and "frown lines" and finding it also helped with their pain. with masseter injections in particular virtually everyone who has had this "jaw slimming" procedure talks at length about the fact that it helps with their jaw aching. the pressure to avoid signs of aging is of course deeply harmful but you can't know someone's reason for getting this treatment, and seeking it from a plastic surgeon can be significantly more accessible than getting a diagnosis and treatment from a specialist
























