#double masectomy

[apoetswasteland]

"Nobody can decide what your tough looks like"

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Hannah Douglass

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#breast cancer #double masectomy #ovarian cancer #cancer awareness #fuck cancer #hysterectomy #oophorectomy #advocacy

[batcircus]

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I'm Saturn- I'm a disabled, Korean, autistic, intersex transsexual survivor seeking some relief in my life in the form of chest reconstruction surgery. I am really needing support from my community- I really don't have anywhere else to turn. Thank you for your time!

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[smokeweedeattherich]

I figured it's time I talk about my surgical transition experience. There's plenty of false narratives out there and I want to counter what I can with truth and personal experience.

The first procedure I received this year in late January was a transvaginal ovarian-hysterectomy. That means they cut out my uterus and ovaries (and the connecting fallopian tubes) without making any abdominal incisions (removed through the vagina). I'd had a consultation with the surgeon performing the operation a few months prior where we discussed any concerns and went over potential side effects as well as specifying I wanted my ovaries removed as well. When the day of the procedure came I went to the hospital, the nurses were really kind and I got to see the surgeon again one last time for any last minute concerns before I went into the surgical suite.

Waking up post surgery I was elated to learn the surgery had gone super smoothly, the surgeon said I'd lost less than a teaspoon of blood. I stayed in hospital for the remainder of the day and ended up going home around 9pm. They'd given me a pain meds prescription, and that kept things during recovery at a quiet 2-3 on the pain scale. Most of what I felt was a general soreness in the area, it was a lot like the sensation of period cramps. It took only 3 weeks before I felt pretty much 100% I still wasn't fully healed but by then there wasn't any pain, even slight.

Now I'm just nearing the end of my 2 month full recovery time and I'm clear to have penetrative sex. The worst part of the recovery I'd say was the basically instant menopause I had to go through for a while. The hot flashes were the worst, get a fan for yourself if you're planning on getting this procedure.

The end of February is when I got my second procedure, a double masectomy aka top surgery. Normally transition surgeries wouldn't be so close together in timeline but I had school starting in May but I couldn't emotionally afford to wait until the semester is over to get the surgery done. Additionally, political circumstances also lead to me making the decision to push up the date of my surgery, I was terrified that if I was to wait another year that it might be illegal by then.

Similar to the first operation, I'd had a consultation appointment several months prior that addressed any questions and concerns to help me decide if the procedure was right for me. I was way less nervous this time around because I'd already been through one surgery and had a better idea of what to expect in terms of pain and recovery.

The experience of check-in and preparation for the second surgery was pretty much the same as the first with one exception, I decided to forego the nipple grafts last minute (and I don't regret the decision. less risk of complication/infection, I wouldn't likely retain sensation, getting nipple tattoos instead gives me direct control over size and shape) so I had to meet with the surgeon beforehand the day of. My direct input was accommodated and my questions answered the day of, it was awesome.

I went under anesthesia feeling a sense of peace that I'd wake up feeling more like myself than I had since before puberty. I'm a month recovered now and I'm just so pleased with the results! The pain was so worth it!

Feel free to ask respectful questions about my experiences.

#trans healthcare #transmasculine #important information #truth #important #nonbinary #surgery #top surgery #bottom surgery #inspiring #trans rights #trans visibility #tdov 2024 #happy tdov #tdov #transgender #trans #hysterectomy #ovarian hysterectomy #masectomy #double mastectomy #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #trans day of visibility #trans day of vengeance

[starberry-skies]

someone needs to get these fuckin thangs off me right now... (you turn around and i'm gnawing on my tits like a dog toy) (you blink and i have given myself a perfect inverted-t surgery) (you blink again and the scars have healed completely)

#chirping #we're dysphoria posting tonight yet again #i really really want inverted-t surgery #more than a double masectomy for sure #i just don't know if that's possible (for both monetary and availability reasons) #we just love how the scars look #+ less risk overall #++ no decision making on whether or not to get nipple grafts #dgmw i love a good double mastectomy like. i will Not complain if that's what i go with #but it's not my Top choice yk #anyway #dysphoria ment

[gh0stlymoth]

[ID: digital drawing of Eddie Munson from Stranger Things from the waist up. He is shirtless and in the process of tying his hair up. He is holding the hair tie in between his lips and has a concentrated expression on his face. He is covered in various tattoos: on his right arm the bats and the wyvern tattoo; on his chest the demon skukk and the spider, alongside a flaming skull on his right side, and the start of a music sheet on his left arm. He has two masectomy scars, along with some scars from being attacked by the demobats. end ID]

Brought to you by me mishearing “I didn’t have these sweet old tatties yet” for “tiddies”

#eddie munson #stranger things #stranger things 4 #st 4 #the ghost scribles #the note thingy on his arm is the starting melody for metallicas master of puppets #listen. i just wanted to draw tatties and trans eddie munson #according to my research he probably would have gotten a double masectomy back in the day #anyway long time no see #i gotta get used to this tablet lol

[bitingfaggotry]

im probably going to block everyone who rbed that trans masc post

#nasty shit that #if *you* arent oppressed ok dont include me in that lmao #idk how you can see the shit talked about double masectomies and the bomb threats and the fascist intimidation #and come to the conclusion that you arent oppressed. even as a sense of self preservation? #cant be me!

[sickbaby222]

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#breast cancer #breast cancer symptoms #breastcancersurvivor #breast cancer surgery #masectomy #double mastectomy #breastreduction #breast augmentation #gender reassignment #gender reassignment surgery #deanna james #inkmaster #tattoo #nipple reconstruction #nipple reconstruction tattoos #nipple tattoos #female artist #female tattoo artists #best tattoo artists

[bougiebutchbitch]

anyway the creators of House MD were cowards for not making him trans. we could've had a double-self-masectomy scene while he's tripping balls, guys

#house md #greg house #gregory house #C'MON

[themetalvirus]

i love trans headcanons. some art that depicts transgender men or boys has a fundamental misunderstanding of how medical transition works, how top and bottom surgeries work, and when they happen during the timeline of a person's life. also some top surgeries have very subtle / almost invisible scarring you wouldn't see unless you were staring at some dude's nipples really close. there are several different types of top surgery not just double incision.

double incision top surgery is a super common procedure for trans men so i 1000% understand wanting to see one's own scars represented on characters they like. that's wonderful, amazing, spectacular, S rank, i am buying you lunch. a kid in the middle of puberty getting a double masectomy is not a thing that happens (without blockers, also theres some exceptions obviously) and it can fuck with the development of your body. a transmasc kid medically transitioning would be put on blockers and hrt if their parents allowed it (a huge problem for trans guys with unsupportive families, i have seen this requirement mentally destroy people and put them at serious risk for self harm.)

anyway as someone who has been in both irl and online transgender spaces for years it is bizarre to see people give 11 year olds top surgery scars ok bye

#exoticbutterstxt

[aeor-is-for-reccing]

Happy Birthday, Aeor is For Reccing!

One year ago today (give or take a couple hours), we published our first rec list. To celebrate, I (Opera) have prepared some stats. A little bit like a reccing wrapped, only with a smaller budget and being less creepy about your data.

But thank you to everyone who has recced, every one who has read the reclist, everyone who has reblogged, everyone who has kudosed, to @professor-rye and @theusualjasper, and everyone who helped along the way.

I'm glad we've gotten this far!

To start: We've had 685 recs, 478 fics, 210 Authors, 53 reclists and 43 themes.

Most Recced Authors: (1) Mousecookie - 25 recs (1) royalgreen - 25 recs (3) SaltCore - 21 recs (4) hanap - 15 recs (5) kmackatie - 14 recs (5) Chrome - 14 recs (5) Firefright - 14 recs (8) Mlle Kurtz - 12 recs (9) road_rhythm - 11 recs (9) MinnesotaBruja - 11 recs (9) LuckyOwlsFoot - 11 recs (9) MarsBar2019 - 11recs

Authors with the most fics recced: (1) royalgreen - 18 fics (2) SaltCore - 13 fics (2) hanap - 13 fics (4) Mousecookie - 12 fics (5) kmackatie - 10 fics (5) LuckyOwlsFoot - 10 fics (7) Firefright - 9 fics (7) Jakia - 9 fics (9) Professor_Rye - 8 fics (9) Mlle Kurtz - 8 fics

Fics recced the highest number of times: Hard Mouth and The Hole in the Stone, both recced 8 times Fic recced the most number of times for a single theme: In the Closet of Our Discretion, by Firefright for Cultural Differences (recced 4 times) Longest fic recced: Dappled Shadow and Penumbral Light by Professor_Rye (463,977) Shortest fic recced: Of Constellations and Freckles, also by Professor_Rye (100 words) First fic Recced:  Stay for a Spell by Palebluedot Latest fic Recced: Uncharted Waters by EmpressofWizards

Word Cloud based on what people like about the fics:

Most common content note: Choose Not To Warn Number of Series recced: 16 Percentage of Hidden Gems that are No Longer eligible (have over 150 kudos):  48% (check them out!) Number of Images Rai has Used: 27

So what's next?

Well, the absolute next thing is that sometime this week I'm going to post the reccing spreadsheet for everyone to see - if people want to look through old recs, they should feel free to! Then there's the ideas I had from the survey a few months ago - chief among them was making it easier to import information from AO3 (you'd still be able to rec fics that can't be imported or on tumblr, I'm just trying to remove some of the hassle) I'm still doing research on the best way to make that happen, and kind of selfishly want to do it myself - but it's been a busy couple of months for me.

Speaking of which - I'm having surgery in a month! A double masectomy and reconstruction on February 19 (roughly equivalent to top surgery (masculinizing)) and February 20th (roughly equivalent to top surgery (femininzing- fat grafting)). Kind of like they're turning my chest on and off again - a ctrl-alt-deteat, if you will. Anyway, I don't want cancer, but everyone I've talked to about this has said the stomach incision is worse than the chest incision, and nobody's ever described top surgery as a walk in the park. I'm planning on doing absolutely nothing for six weeks, and @theusualjasper will be taking over during that time.

Anyway, here's to another year! Thanks to everyone who has participated or helped along the way, you're all great. Even you <3

#not a rec list #shadowgast #shadowgast recs #stats

[bougiebutchbinch]

favourite headcanon: Ed is wanted for 'performing unlicensed gender affirming surgeries' because he gave Izzy his double-masectomy

#ed teach #izzy the spewer #izzy hands #ed babygirl teach #ofmd izzy #just midwife AND gender affirming surgeon ed teach #he has the RANGE #my little guy

[catboybiologist]

hi, i have one like, question for you regarding transgender healthcare. beacause. like there are people to whom dysphoria brings immense distress/unhappiness, and any healthcare system should absolutely take care of that, for free.

but theres also people who dont feel that strongly about gender and or dont experience dyphoria, but still prefer getting/removing their tits/penis/vagina. and thats also okay, like, infromed consent and all. but im not sure where the line should be on what we (as in, taxpayer) actually pay for. like, idk, i dont have a strongly formed oppinion on this. so id like to hear yours

I know you're not from the US, but unfortunately my perspective on this will have to be amerocentric because that's my experience- so I'll talk about that perspective first, and then try to generalize it.

The American healthcare system is so wasteful in how it bars people from procedures its insane. More money is spent figuring out how to reject people from receiving monetary payments for healthcare than would be spent if you just approved the overwhelming majority of them. And this isn't even considering other ludicrously wasteful forms of spending the US government does, like the insane portion of our defense budget that just disappears into thin air every year.

So how much additional burden should the taxpayer pay? Ideally, none, because any significant reform of the healthcare system would make all of these questions moot.

But, not every country is in this situation. And there is still a question embedded in here- what is the line of providing medical care from the government/taxpayer? I don't have personal experience with it, but this is exactly what countries with socialized healthcare deal with all the time, well beyond just gender affirming care. I tried to make the parallel with abortion because its a similar category of thing. Let's call it like... "semi-elective" procedures- medical procedures with the potential to significantly improve someone's quality of life, but won't kill or severely incapacitate them if they don't get the procedure, leaving it up to them to decide whether the medical context for the procedure fits for them (I'm NOT trying to lessen how life changing these procedures are, I'm calling them 'semi-elective' as a way of denoting that two people faced with the same situation can make different decisions about it based on their personal considerations). This can apply to a lot of things, some of them almost entirely cosmetic- surgeries to mitigate a mild disability, breast implants for cancer patients after a masectomy, procedures for conditions like cleft lip, facial reconstruction after severe injury, and on and on. To me, gender affirming care falls in this category- its not cancer treatment, but it is life changing in an overwhelmingly positive way.

In my mind, it should be the priority of any government to prioritize and expand the healthcare they're able to provide, including for these semi-elective procedures. Many wealthy, developed nations have the ability to cover most or all of these kinds of procedures, even though they're entirely "elective". But yes, budget and resource concerns are very real in many places, so yes, priorities do have to be made on a national scale. This is a very delicate and interesting question, actually, and there is a lot of room for well-intentioned debate on it.

But I'm not going to answer it.

Because I think you should ask yourself something.

Why is this a question so frequently applied to gender affirming treatments, yet rarely, if ever, applied to any of the other procedures I listed above? I'm not jumping on you, because you asked a genuine question, and I'm glad you asked it. I'm speaking to anyone reading this, not just you, because this exact thing is so frequently brought up when discussing gender affirming care. And that's a double standard through and through- there's no way around that.

[she-is-ovarit]

Why did you refer to your friend, who is a trans man, as he?

do you believe trans people are the gender they identify as?

Often people won’t respond to these questions, because they don’t have reasoning behind their own bigotry. Will you? I’m willing to have a healthy debate, I just want to see from the eyes of the other side

I'm not sure what post you're referring to or what context your question is coming from. I tend to get a lot of these types of asks/DMs in which people reach out with comments or questions pertaining to something I said weeks, months, or years ago that is circulating and came across their dash.

If you're wondering what my views on gender ideology are, skimming these links would give you a more holistic and accurate sense.

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My close friend is female and trans-identifying. She considers herself a transman. We had a discussion day three of me knowing her (we were on a date, actually, ha) on gender identity, biological sex, etc. We've had similar talks since—the most recently after she obtained a double masectomy. I don't usually refer to her as a man in the presence of people who aren't in her immediate inner circle. She's aware I conceptualize her as female and refer to her as being female and is fine with this. I'm aware she describes herself differently than I describe myself and am fine with this. Our friendship is unique and wholesome and expands beyond hyperfixating on pronouns.

If I called her "he" anywhere, it's likely because I'm used to other people calling her "he" or her introducing herself as a "he" - or even sometimes choosing to call her "he" in certain situations - similar to how I would performatively participate in certain religious traditions without actually believing in the religion. She understands that I don't really believe she's a he, and we both came to the genuine acceptance of each other, differences and all, very early on in our friendship. If she couldn't move past that I saw her as female, and if I couldn't move past that she calls herself a man, we simply wouldn't be friends because that would be grounds for an unhealthy friendship.

#ask #gender #gender identity

[astriiformes]

I feel an obligation to clarify that the complications I'm having are in part because I had a less-conventional top surgery (more like a preventative masectomy than a normal double incision procedure), which was more intense and the main reason things have gone awry, and that even considering that, I also know multiple people who have had similarly intensive surgeries without complications like mine.

Top surgery is still great, even with all this my gender euphoria has been real, if you are considering it yours will probably go fine. I am just the world's unluckiest guy and nothing can go right for me ever. The last thing I want is for my stressing out over all this to discourage someone from pursuing a really important and affirming procedure.

#i'm sure in the long term even i will be grateful i got through this #because hopefully my surgery tomorrow will get things back on the right track and feeling better and more affirming #i'm just sad and tired in the meantime (and dealing with a lot of other difficult circumstances) #eurgh

[tornapartbythorns]

I'm super into body art and I was looking through scarification posts online. For yall that don't know, scarification is when designs are created on your skin, and said skin is peeled off, to create a scar of that design.

An example:

I found a post on reddit about a woman that had scarification done on her chest, and I noticed that she has double masectomy scars. I was hoping that she had her breasts removed for health reasons, but with this day in age, I can't be sure.

I like body modifications myself. I have facial and cartilage piercings, and I have a tattoo on my chest. But any modification that involves removing/slicing body parts DISGUSTS me. This includes conch removals and tongue splitting, and much more. The reddit post made me start to think that "top surgery" just has to be a trendy extreme body modification for girls and women. Body modifications are undoubtedly more acceptable than ever, and the more extreme forms would most likely gain social traction due to lightened stigma and social media. Top surgery cannot be any different. I've met and been around so many girls and women that crave top surgery. It's really no different from when I was in middle school and all the girls wanted nose piercings, and these girls and women talk about top surgery like it's a piercing as well. Its an impulsive decision, that's no big deal to get done and that there's no care of possible physical complications.

Except a piercing is having a needle shoved through your skin. "Top surgery" is a double masectomy; an entire surgical procedure. A piercing can be removed and the site will heal, and it'll leave a faint scar. But your breasts can never grow back. The hasty and apathetic attitude that girls and women carry about having their body parts removed is frightening. How can you care so little about your body to have your healthy *breasts* willingly and ecstatically removed? And how can it possibly be legal for surgeons to remove healthy tissue for no other reason besides "it makes me feel sad :("? I had severe body dysmorphia when I was in high school. It got so severe to the point that I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror, so I do understand where these girls are coming from. I wanted plastic surgery done to make me feel better, too.

But trust me, IT WILL NOT HELP. Giving into your insecurities and pain is not going to help alleviate it. These girls and women need strict counseling to figure out exactly *why* they don't want to be female and why they're so eager to have healthy tissue removed. Listening to your mental illness won't make it go away. I can't understand why trans people don't understand that.

#radblr #radfem #radfem safe #radical feminism #radical feminists do interact #terfsafe #terfblr #gender critical #lgb #Rad

[mangolord755]

Sometimes it's great my posts get no interaction I love screaming into the void

I JUST GOT GHOSTED

AND I HAVE A SINUS COLD

THE DAY OF a massive event I'm supposed to work

And I look like shit and am recovering from a double masectomy

10 likes and I'll post booty in fishnets

#falling apart #mentally ill #help