#trans matters

Today is Trans Day of Visibility and I'm here to remind you that trans people who have bottom surgery exist and that we are still trans when we do.

I'm here to remind you that bottom dysphoria exists and we're not "less trans" for not fucking like cis people of our AGAB.

I'm here to remind you we belong here too. I'm here to remind you that we are every bit as worthy of being represented in art, in writing, and especially in erotica as our siblings who still have their original parts.

Got my ears re-pierced/stretched yesterday and had my first T shot earlier today. Today is the week I decided to do all the changes and I'm both excited and terrified and excitedterrified.

Liniker e Ilú Obá De Min - Preciso me Encontrar (2018)

1 year 7 months on T 

I’m lookin’ a little rough, could use a shave.

James Barry was a trans man. There was no fluidity to his identity. He stayed a man to his death. His will requested that he be buried in the clothes he died in. 

YOU DON’T GET TO CO-OPT GENDERFLUIDITY TO JUSTIFY CASTING A CIS WOMAN AS A MAN. GTFO. 

Okay, so I know a bit about this, but not everything seeing as I’m not a doctor haha. I know there are different surgeries for different breast sizes and body types. Certain surgeries leave less scaring ect. For instance, I have a rather large chest, so I’ll probably end up having to the Inverted T (T Anchor) surgery. If not, I may have to get the Double Incision surgery. 

Both seem to be more suited for medium to large chests. Though the Double Incision seems to have much more issues than the Inverted T.

Double Incision sometimes can have: Loss of nipple feeling, numbness in armpits, “Dog ears” or extra skin that hangs off at the end of the incision, uneven or off looking nipples, ect. 

Inverted T have: two extra vertical incisions, moderate scaring, other normal surgical risks.

Keyhole (for A-B cup breasts): Numbness, nipples may die or look wrong, chest might seem more like a breast reduction rather than a completely flat chest, puckering around the scars, ect.

Peri Areolar (For medium to small chests): Additional lipo and/or revision surgeries are usually needed.

All surgeries are gonna have risks and differ between pros and cons. I don’t know everything, and you shouldn’t take my knowledge as fact, as I get all my information from the internet. Every body reacts differently to surgery. For example, biracial people are more likely to keloid than other races, that being said, that’s not always the case. I get small keloids and I’m basically Caspar. Please speak with your surgeon about any questions and/or issues you may have. Also, please make sure this surgeon is efficient in his work, check with previous patients that he did the same procedure on. I don’t want to see any of you on Botched.

Here are some links:

http://www.tssurgeryguide.com/FTM-Top-Surgery.html

http://topsurgerymidwest.com/ftm-top-surgery/

http://www.topsurgery.net/faq/