Finally, after years of waiting and hoping, it looks like I'll be (hopefully) getting top surgery by March of 2025.
The gender clinic of KU (in Kansas City, Kansas) had a 42 BMI limit for top surgery, and currently I'm right on that line. Also I will be moving out pretty soon, hopefully within the next month, so it'll finally be an option for me.
I have to get two letters, one from my therapist and one from my med provider, and stay under that BMI limit, and I should be able to get surgery pretty soon.
CW for body stuff below (no pictures, just explaining what things are like before surgery, and type of procedure I'm hoping for and why.
I'm hoping for fishmouth/batwing. I was originally set on double incision because it was really the only one I thought i would qualify for--I have G cups (DDD) and a lot of sagging--but I'm hoping that the doc will be able to do fishmouth, because I don't want nipple grafts to deprive me of sensation, but I still do want them. Plus, the scars look epic and I'm more genderqueer than I am binary trans guy anyway, and fishmouth is more gnc than double incision.
I really hope that they don't disqualify me because of how i bind--because of my chest size, I bind over a sports bra because otherwise it won't make me look masculine, and I'm in a rural mostly conservative area so it's just as much dysphoria as it is safety for me.
I'm trying to gather a masterlist of post-op supplies I need to consider getting.
I'm also working on building my chest/pectoral muscles so I don't look so flat as a board when I get the teet yeet.
If a tree falls in the forest / And no one is around to hear it / What grows in the debris? - Triptych monotype print series
Monotype prints are individually painted onto flat plexiglass, and cannot be copied or recreated the way traditional prints are. They're considered "painter's prints"; the style is experimental and fluid, but the layering quality inherent to printmaking allows for some really interesting results!
I used pictures of my own top surgery results for this piece, overlaid with paintings of nursery logs.
