#trans surgeries

[manic-pixie-dick-girl]

TW trans surgeries, vaginoplasty, genital talk:

I think I've learned something important about vaginoplasty and neovaginas (technical term for trans girl coochie) from my last reblog about the great wall of vagina vulva:

The Project

It’s not vulgar, it’s vulva! This isn’t just sensation, it is art with a social conscience and Jamie wants you to stop, look and listen. As

I decided to see if I could tell which of the vulvas were trans women's. I've seen a fair few from looking at post-op result pics and doing research for my own surgery, so I was pretty confident.

I could for certain say two or three were neovaginas, and had maybe 7 or 8 that I thought were but couldn't be sure. What I realised though, was that all of these ones I thought were trans women's vulvas had one thing in common:

A lack of fleshiness, for lack of a better word. No large labia minora, no prominent clitoris, no defined clitoral hood.

This was a huge light bulb moment to me! It says SO MUCH about the state of vaginoplasty, and the people performing these surgeries.

Firstly, having a "neat" vulva is considered more aesthetically pleasing. I have no fucking idea why, but it's true. That's the classic porn star look for some reason. So when we get designer coochies, that's what we get made. "Fashionable" pussy. Which is so fucking weird to me.

Secondly, from my understanding a lot of vaginoplasty's difficulty is that you only have so much skin to work with. It doesn't usually take skin from elsewhere in the body, just reuses genital tissue in a like-for-like manner. The fact that there is barely any tissue around the outside means that practically all of it has been used to achieve as much depth as possible.

Which just SCREAMS "oh a straight cis guy developed this surgical technique" to me! Because if you spend all your working material on depth that means you think it's the most important factor. And why would you think that? I can only imagine it's because you see the vagina as first and foremost a hole for a cock to go. Why else would you care if your vagina is 7 inches deep vs 4? The misogyny rankles. Can the patriarchy please get out of my hypothetical future pussy.

Because I tell you what: as a massive raging lesbian this seems completely backwards. Given the choice, I'd spend as much tissue as needed to create a fully defined vulva, and then whatever is left gets spent on depth. I care much more about what it looks like in the mirror or if a partner wants to go down on me than how much dick can fit in it.

Besides, if I do end up having sex with a be-penised person then well to be blunt I already have a perfectly good hole to put it in. It even comes with its own g-spot. Why would I need another one?

Okay pussy rant over.

[coochiequeens]

Is this guy admitting that “TERFs” who are critical of the blasé attitude many in the trans community have toward surgery have a point?

[aawkwardaaron]

Need A Trans-surgery Letter? – The GALAP

Need A Letter?

The GALAP is a grassroots, volunteer project that aims to increase access to free letters for gender-affirming medical care. We are not a gr

This is a dope online list of people around the US who are willing and able to write out letters required for transgender surgeries and such!

Look at the list and get ahold of someone in your area!

[scriptlgbt]

After the first [trans-related] surgeries in the U.S. were performed in the mid-1960s, the field of transgender medicine grew rapidly — but that began to change in 1975, when a man named Paul McHugh became the chief of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. McHugh, who believed — and still believes — that being transgender was a form of mental illness, eventually shut down the hospital’s gender-identity program a few years after taking up his post. The decision caused a domino effect at other universities, pushing transgender surgery out of training hospitals. For the next few decades, it was mostly the purview of private practitioners who held their techniques close to the vest. “When I started, surgeries were largely proprietary,” says gynecologist Marci Bowers, a pioneer of [trans-related] surgery who has been in the field for over 14 years. Early in her career, she approached several surgeons hoping to learn their techniques, but all turned her away — transgender surgery, often a cash market, was not a field in which you shared your secrets. Lack of communication between doctors, combined with the lack of overall instruction in medical school, meant that transgender patients often had to rely on luck, persistence, and word of mouth to find the care they were looking for.

Why It’s So Hard for Doctors to Learn About Transgender Health Issues

Sonya Vatomsky for the Cut

[42ftm-transition]

Starbucks to pay for all transgender staff's surgeries

The company will now cover facial feminisation and hair removal.

Perhaps time for a career change?

I had never considered working for Starbucks before. Do they also pay a livable wage?

[etesienne]

Another success story I see

[etesienne]

Maybe I should feel empathy of some sort, but I feel absolutely nothing

“I fought my whole life to have this vagina, and now that I have it it feels like it’s trying to kill me.“ Funny how that works, huh. Still, you’ll never have a vagina. 

[etesienne]

This is not normal. This is not safe. This whole procedure is medical abuse.Notice how every time a patient experiences complications (sutures tearing, infections, tissue granulation, necrosis, nerve damage, etc.), the surgeon just... blatantly doesn’t care, or even abandons them. I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s like to be left in this state, vulnerable and in pain and afraid (and often in terrible debt)