Gender dysphoria is real, but this business of abnormalising what is biologically normal and healthy is absurd. Having had a bilateral mastectomy (in order to end the decades of backpain from having to wear a bra) was such an enormous relief. However, the ONLY way I could get a surgeon to relieve me of that lifelong pain was to claim I was gender dysphoric (which I was) and have that healthy (but unwanted and hurtful) body tissue removed. I will be forever grateful that I no longer suffer the back pain, but it was absurd that the only way a medical practitioner would relieve me of that pain was to claim gender dysphoria. It is a pity that the surgeon botched the surgery anyway (and I am still not convinced that was unintentional). I think he was not going to encourage anybody to have such surgery for any other reason than gender dysphoria – and I ‘wouldn’t take the kool-aid’ (as in testosterone) so he rendered my chest as ugly as you could imagine (which left me feeling like the equivalent of him throwing acid in my face). I suspect many plastic surgeons are misogynists who are more than willing to reinforce gender stereotypes.
Gender dysphoria is real, but this business of abnormalising what is biologically normal and healthy is absurd. Having had a bilateral mastectomy (in order to end the decades of backpain from having to wear a bra) was such an enormous relief. However, the ONLY way I could get a surgeon to relieve me of that lifelong pain was to claim I was gender dysphoric (which I was) and have that healthy (but unwanted and hurtful) body tissue removed. I will be forever grateful that I no longer suffer the back pain, but it was absurd that the only way a medical practitioner would relieve me of that pain was to claim gender dysphoria. It is a pity that the surgeon botched the surgery anyway (and I am still not convinced that was unintentional). I think he was not going to encourage anybody to have such surgery for any other reason than gender dysphoria – and I ‘wouldn’t take the kool-aid’ (as in testosterone) so he rendered my chest as ugly as you could imagine (which left me feeling like the equivalent of him throwing acid in my face). I suspect many plastic surgeons are misogynists who are more than willing to reinforce gender stereotypes.