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genderqueerdykes · 1 day

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if you are a person of color and are struggling to understand or express your own gender because you do not and/or cannot conform to white beauty & gender standards you're not alone and you do not have to warp yourself to suit someone else's narrative- every culture on this planet has their own relationship with biological sex & gender and you do not have to mold yourself to suit gender roles that literally just don't exist in your cultures, or don't make sense to you

you do not have to try to change your face, hair or body to match standards that don't apply to you. you are allowed to approach gender in your own way, in whatever ways make sense to you. it's your life, your gender, your culture, your expression. you don't have to screw yourself over like that. good luck in finding the real you, you'll find them

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mxjackparker · 2 days

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With all the propaganda and rhetoric against top surgery that "Gender Criticals" and general transphobes are spreading, here's some info on what top surgery was actually like for me, from surgery all through the healing process! (This post will include some images of drains and a little blood!)

I was diagnosed with gender dysphoria (which is necessary in the UK for surgery) around May 2020 and started testosterone February 2021, all through GenderCare. I got a letter from the gender therapist and a surgery referral from GenderGP and consulted with my surgeon then booked surgery for 14th Feb 2022.

I had to travel all the way to Manchester, on a coach that took many hours, and book a hotel. I raised surgery money via GoFundMe because despite being referred to (now closing) Tavistock GIC in early 2020, my appointment to even be assessed wouldn't have been for over 5 years.

I had a double incision top surgery (double mastectomy) on February 14th 2022 as scheduled! I woke up in a fairly minor amount of pain, still on painkillers from the surgery, with drains. As you can see, I was also so happy that probably made it hurt less!

My top surgery took a few hours. Pre-surgery, my chest size was a 32 H. That's a lot of tissue to be removing, and so I did end up with drains for the first 48 hours after surgery, though drains aren't used as broadly in the UK anymore and not by default.

I was discharged from the hospital the morning after my surgery (some people go home the day of, but I pre-arranged to stay overnight). I took no painkillers after surgery at any point during healing. I was up and walking around from the moment I left!

If you take painkillers, that may make you more fatigued and/or constipated, so those things are totally normal. If you need painkillers, you should absolutely take them - it's not a point of pride to suffer more than you need to. I didn't take any painkillers because I have a history of addiction to them. However, I found the pain entirely tolerable even despite the lack of medication.

The evening after I was released from the hospital, I was pacing my hotel room carrying my drains! Moving promotes healing and prevents blood clots. I was very hunched!

Directly after surgery I got to briefly see my chest, but not for long given that I needed to have the compression vest on! I didn't have too much swelling, so I could see what my chest actually looked like and was so excited. Once I got my drains out, I got to see it for longer!

The pain post-surgery was manageable. I had to bend forwards a little when walking so as not to pull on my stitches and make it hurt more, but I never took any painkillers and the pain was never intense enough to make me feel compelled to. I kept wearing my compression vest!

The drains were honestly the most painful part of the experience for me, and once they were out the most pain I felt was from my back from walking hunched forward. I wore the compression vest on and off for 2 weeks then abandoned it completely, because I had such little swelling.

3 weeks after surgery, I got my dressings off (except nipples). I could see the full scar. I told my surgeon I wanted scars that were mostly straight, and that combined with the size of my chest meant the scars needed to meet in the middle in a little triangle.

Everyone's scar shape is different, and you should talk to your surgeon about what you want. I didn't want semi-circle shape scars, because I wanted the scar to follow my pectorals so I'd have the option in the long-term of fading/medical tattooing and mostly hiding the scar.

3 weeks after top surgery, I was well-healed enough that I went into London for the Sex Work Strike and did a speech there! I was well-recovered by this point, though still fatigued. (A link to my speech if you're interested.)

Around a month, I took off the nipple dressing as instructed by my post-op nurse, and one was healed enough for no dressing but the other took about another week to be as healed. Healing isn't perfectly symmetrical.

Once all of my dressings were off and I was able to probably clean my nipples and scars, I got to see the full result of my chest. This is the thinnest my scars ever were, because they hadn't developed as scars yet - they were healed shut but weren't done scarring.

Once I was past a month of healing, all of the physical effects of top surgery had dissipated. I was no longer fatigued, my scars didn't hurt (though they did itch!), and I was in the secondary healing phase. My chest below the top of the nipple had minimal sensation.

I got phantom sensations, like water being poured over my chest, as the nerves reconnected. It wasn't painful, but it was weird! By month 2, I regained full sensation in most of my chest, with very little sensation on the scar and the skin directly between it and my nipples.

I have pretty much full sensation (including erotic sensation) in my nipples now. It's important to note: double incision almost always results in some loss of sensation, especially in the nipples. I'd have been fine with that, and this was an extra bonus for me!

This is my chest and scars 8 months after surgery.

And this is my chest now, just over 2 years after top surgery:

I'm very happy with how it looks, with how it feels, and I have zero regrets!

#trans man #ftm #trans men #nonbinary #top surgery #transmasc #transmasculine #transgender #lgbtq+#trans

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sophieisabadgirl · 2 days

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lgbtq-userboxes · 2 days

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gaycrashbandicoot · 21 hours

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The world if bottom surgery wasn't £90K, top surgery wasn't £10K or if I had £100K instead of £39 in my bank account

#transgender #transsexual #ftm #trans #trans man #trans woman #transmasc #transfem #transmasculine #transfeminine #bottom surgery #top surgery #transition #hrt

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2econd2ight2ydney · 12 hours

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at first I was only able to draw girls but now I’m trans and I can only draw twinks

#I hope this is a universal experience for all trans guys #maybe trans women experience something similar?#question mark?#trans #transgender #transmasc #transmasculine #trans pride #art #artist #queer #queer community #2slgbtqia+#lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq community

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serpentofdusk · 12 hours

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some of my transguy friends got to be stupidly hot lesbians before their transitions.

i, on the other hand, looked like someone had turned a scrangly cat into a girl who was *not* supposed to have been a girl

#transmasc #t4t #gay #queer #lgbtq #trans #transgender #trans man #trans guy #transmasculine

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thetisming · 11 hours

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when im sad, i try to remember the taxi driver who called me 'little boy'

i was talking with my mum about being trans. i mentioned being assigned female at birth. he definitely heard this, and would have known i was trans.

people never assume im a boy, so it's unlikely that that's what happened. this man heard that I'm trans, listened, and then when my mum asked him to open the boot to grab her scooter, and then he said 'is it for the little boy?' and smiled at me

i dont know where this taxi driver is but he's made a positive impact on me. not all people want us dead. some people will hear you talking about the transphobia you experienced at the hospital and then take on board that youre the gender you are.

#trans #transgender #transmasc #transmasculine #trans positivity #i hope that taxi driver is okay right now because he made me really happy #trans minor #trans boy

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pridewishes · 7 hours

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♔ || IZUKU MIDORIYA ICONS

250x250 || transmasc || bordered circle

like / rb + credit + read dni if using

requested by @iforgorrt !!

#izuku midoriya #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #icons #pride edit #pride icons #pfp #edit #transmasc #trans masc #trans masculine #transmasculine #trans #transgender

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that-bisexual · 1 day

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so it’s a pretty day and stuff is happening but look how masc my hand looked a little bit ago

#lgbtq #trans #transmasc #transmasculine #genderfluid #lgbt #pride #genderqueer #non binary

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genderqueerdykes · 15 hours

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we really need to stop associating facial and body hair with men. it's just hair. someone having a beard or body hair does not instantly make them a man. women, intersex, perisex, trans and cis all can naturally beards and body hair. men, intersex, perisex, trans and cis can all never grow facial or body hair, ever.

if a woman has a beard for whatever reason, it doesn't invalidate their womanhood or make them partially or wholly a man. if a man can't grow facial hair or refuses to, this doesn't make him any less of a man. trans and intersex women are not obligated to shave their faces constantly in order to be seen as women. trans and intersex men are not obligated to try to grow or make it look like they grow facial hair in order to be seen as men people deserve bodily autonomy when it comes to hair, especially if it just literally grows there against your will.

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slithymomerath · 3 months

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⚠️ warning: side effects of testosterone ⚠️

✅ harder

✅ better

✅ faster

✅ stronger

#trans #transgender #trans man #trans masc #trans men #trans masculine #transman #transmasc #transmasculine #trans hrt #trans ftm #ftm #ftm hrt #ftm transgender #ftm transition #hrt testosterone #campost

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island-76 · 3 months

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Here's your reminder that AFAB doesn't mean that person has breasts and a vagina. That AMAB doesn't mean that person has a flat chest and a dick.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DICKS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE FLAT CHESTS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE BEARDS.

AFAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE DEEP VOICES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE TITS

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE PUSSIES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE CURVES

AMAB PEOPLE CAN HAVE HIGH-PITCHED VOICES

Don't let AMAB and AFAB become the progressive binary

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queerism1969 · 8 months

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#lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbt pride #lesbian #nonbinary #sapphic #lgbtq #queer #nonbinary lesbian #gay girls #trans man #trans main character #trans male #trans masc #trans march #trans men #transmasculine #transman #transitioning

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gaycrashbandicoot · 2 days

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I don't know why cis people worship jk Rowling as some kind of really incredible feminist, the pinnacle of woman's rights and activism. Even outside of her very blatant, rampant and disgusting transphobic she is a very mid/average feminist. I think some people who love her have just never met another woman lol.

I mean lots of terfs aren't great feminists bcs their views about women are regressive and bioessentialist and basically just reinventing 1950s sexism as woke but if we take trans ppl out of the equation entirely jk rowling is not an incredible feminist.

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introvert-time-art · 9 months

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"being trans is a choice" do you honestly think i would CHOOSE to get gender euphoria from wearing knee-length basketball shorts?? that's humiliating

#nonbinary #trans #transmasc #transmasculine #transgender #i look like adam sandler and feel like myself thats so embarrassing #thank god it's not exclusively basketball shorts though #i would look a fool all the time

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