#bottomdysphoria

Fantastic idea!!

Pros-

There is a great Wiki how to article to help you fit, although I will suggest that you go one size down with the manufacturer’s suggested sizes if you’re super tall or skinny (I’m 5ft8 and skinnier than shit). I bought a Mueller “hard” cup, typically used for full-contact sports like football and rugby. The great part about most of the brands now have sizing on the back of the package.

The specific reason I bought an athletic cup even though I haven’t had bottom surgery is that I went out rafting with some of the guys and I awkwardly noticed that one of the guys was wearing a cup and I asked him about it (we’re super close), and he said that he has an old one he drilled a couple extra holes in (to drain water) because he’s been hit really hard before while swimming and almost lost a testicle a few years ago, so now he always wears one. It gave me the idea that it’s a cheap, fairly safe way to pack without using a packer while swimming because most packers aren’t water safe and most STPs (Stand To Pee packers) make you look like you have a hardon when you get wet and it’s super embarrassing when people notice. I chose a cup a size smaller than suggested because I am super skinny and as I stated before, I don’t want to look like I have a hard on.

Cons-

You may have to try a couple out in the shower moving around to see if that particular cup will cause a lot of chaffing in the groin area.

So I don’t hear very often a lot of support for those who don’t transition whether that is at all or those who only transition to a certain extent. Some people only feel dysphoria on the top and therefore a trans woman may decide to have breast augmentation and nothing more as she doesn’t want to transition fully. Shes still a woman, shes still trans and for whatever reason she has for not wanting to transition is none of your business. A transman may decide to just be on T and have no surgeries. He is still a man and doesn’t need to explain that decision to you.

I used to struggle to understand why someone wouldn’t transition fully but from thinking perhaps I wouldn’t either, I’ve grown to understand and accept it. I want to transition fully but that doesn’t mean someone who chooses not to isn’t trans.You and I have no right to ask why or make out that they aren’t trans, if they have dysphoria they are trans and that is it. Some people risk health conditions, some people aren’t financially stable enough, and some people just prefer to not transition completely. 

As a trans guy, this is the strangest feeling I legitimately wish I could understand (in a literal sense).

Transmasculine peeps

Does anyone else jack off with a prosthetic?

Thoughts?

Feelings?

Me: Oh she's cute.

Dysphoria: But if you were to have sex then your body would reflect theirs and you would feel female during the entire thing and uncomfortable because you share the same physical appearance.

Me: Okay... He's good looking.

Dysphoria: Yeah but if you were to have sex you would see that he has a penis and you do not, making you feel like a female during the entire thing and uncomfortable because your bodies should share the same physical appearance but they do not.