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Me: promise?

Them: your clit will get bigger 🤢

Me: thank god

Them: you'll go bald

Me: I like my new hairline, it looks so masc 😍

Them: your skin will be slightly less smooth

Me: that has no bearing on my life

Them: your saliva will be thicker?

Me: better at spitting contests

Them: it'll be harder to cry

Me: ...you got me there

Them: ok but the real problem is you will be less fuckable to straight men

Nino: Trans Joy! Feral Magazine, Cape Town, 2024 by Steve Marais

a neophallus can get erect with an implant (this will either be a bendable rod or a device that inflates with saline at the press of a button, usually in the testicles)

both can feel sexual pleasure and experience orgasm

most neovaginas will be able to tolerate larger insertions with enough dilating/training

the nerves in neophalluses take a while to regrow but it is incredibly rare to experience no sexual nerve growth

both can look and feel "normal" if that's what you want, just take good care of your scars and look at your surgeons' results portfolio (and don't be afraid to be picky! its your genitals, you get to decide!)

in fact it's possible for many people to stealth and for their sexual partners to never know. even for phallo, some people with natal penises have erectile implants too, ED is common. neocaginas are often indistinguishable from natal vaginas

many surgeons are starting to offer preservation options for patients who want a more mixed look/don't want to lose what they have

you can have nothing and retain sexual function, even! it's called nerve-preserving nullification. similarly to other bottom surgeries, they use the most sensitive tissue (glans/clit) to create a subdermal pseudoclitoris

yes you can pee like normal. urethral reroute leaves a small hole at the perineum (taint)

all the advice about scars from OP applies here too!! take care of yourself well and it can heal well

“Max and Jason in a hotel room for an FTM Conference, Boston, MA” ( 1997) by Mariette Pathy Allen (source)