Interest check for trans stuff?
Sep. 11th, 2021 06:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hungryghostsEDIT: We'll be doing this! Posts will be tagged as "nullification surgery" and access list locked, but please feel free to ask for access.
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So, for folks not on our access filter, we had surgery yesterday! Specifically a genital nullification surgery from the AFAB side.
(Details underneath: TMI/genitalia/medical talk ahead!)
More specifically, we had almost all of our bottom bits removed: uterus, Fallopian tubes, cervix, vagina. Labia minora (the flaps of skin by the vaginal opening) were cut down and the vaginal opening sewn up, so we're now smooth as a Barbie doll down there. Clitoris was left in place so we have something to pee out of, and ovaries were left intact because we like having bones.
(End TMI)
From what we can tell, there aren't many resources on this type of surgery at all compared to other surgeries. We'd been longing after this surgery for literally as long as we could remember, but practically all of the information we found said it was incredibly rare, even dangerous, and that no trustworthy surgeon would agree to do it because doctors don't believe in nonbinary people and it would be considered female genital mutilation. (Yikes?) We'd given up hope until incidentally lucking upon a trans-competent doctor who knew where to send us. And we'd like to pay it forward, somehow.
Basically: would anyone be interested in hearing about the process, recovery, where we got it done, etc? We'd probably access list lock it just in case, but are comfortable adding people - we're not too picky about who goes on our access list, it's mostly there as a sort of "logged in users only" filter. (Also have been playing with the idea of doing an anonymized Reddit AMA or Neocities/Carrd.)
And of course, huge disclaimer that this would only be from our perspective as a patient, and that we are not medical experts - but that should go without saying!
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So, for folks not on our access filter, we had surgery yesterday! Specifically a genital nullification surgery from the AFAB side.
(Details underneath: TMI/genitalia/medical talk ahead!)
More specifically, we had almost all of our bottom bits removed: uterus, Fallopian tubes, cervix, vagina. Labia minora (the flaps of skin by the vaginal opening) were cut down and the vaginal opening sewn up, so we're now smooth as a Barbie doll down there. Clitoris was left in place so we have something to pee out of, and ovaries were left intact because we like having bones.
(End TMI)
From what we can tell, there aren't many resources on this type of surgery at all compared to other surgeries. We'd been longing after this surgery for literally as long as we could remember, but practically all of the information we found said it was incredibly rare, even dangerous, and that no trustworthy surgeon would agree to do it because doctors don't believe in nonbinary people and it would be considered female genital mutilation. (Yikes?) We'd given up hope until incidentally lucking upon a trans-competent doctor who knew where to send us. And we'd like to pay it forward, somehow.
Basically: would anyone be interested in hearing about the process, recovery, where we got it done, etc? We'd probably access list lock it just in case, but are comfortable adding people - we're not too picky about who goes on our access list, it's mostly there as a sort of "logged in users only" filter. (Also have been playing with the idea of doing an anonymized Reddit AMA or Neocities/Carrd.)
And of course, huge disclaimer that this would only be from our perspective as a patient, and that we are not medical experts - but that should go without saying!
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Date: 2021-09-11 05:25 pm (UTC)--Janusz