#SURGERIES FOR MEN

[lycandrophile]

the cis maternal urge to treat your trans son’s body like an extension of your own body, and to react to said trans son’s physical transition as if they might as well have just started hacking away at your own body with a rusty axe, really is something else.

my mom hasn’t seen my chest post-op at all because the idea of it is so awful to her that the one time we took my bandages off with her present, she ran across the hotel room to hide from it and started crying to my brother about it (yes, with actual tears). she drove an hour and a half with us at 5:30am to my post-op just to sit in the waiting room because she refused to come in and see me after the surgeon took the bandages off. my dad has been the only one helping me with recovery things like changing bandages and monitoring healing because she still won’t look at my chest.

and she says that’s because she loves me and cares about me. love is when you treat the body your child can finally live in comfortably like it’s your worst nightmare. apparently.

[steakcy]

More transmasc Logan 🥰

Old man Wolvie has to wear transtape because of course his tits figured out how to grow back after almost a century

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

One day in 2019, I had pain so bad I went to the ER.

My gut felt like there were red hot needles and knifes being stabbed into it. I felt nauseous. I felt faint. I very nearly threw up.

It was not the first time I felt this way but it was the worst I’d ever felt. I’d been getting increasingly bad pain for over a year and I had gone to countless doctors trying to determine what it was.

The doctors at the ER — thankfully — took me seriously. They determined I had a severely infected gallbladder and the only way to save my life was to have surgery to remove it.

I still had to give consent before the surgery.

I remember being terrified. I was alone. There was no one to help me. And somehow, even though the only course of action I could take was to consent to the surgery the fact that I had to before they could take action made it all the more terrifying. The consequences of the surgery would mean I would live, but I’d never quite be the same. I felt cheated by my own body. Why was it this way? Why couldn’t I be healthy? Functional? Why wasn’t my body working with me?

The nurses, doctors, and surgeons there were all incredibly kind to me.

One surgeon in particular — the one who ended up operating on me — said something that will stick with me for the rest of my life. “Your body is there to help you. Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away. You’ll be so much happier after the surgery. You won’t be in pain anymore.”

I think about that a lot.

I think about it a lot when I see trans men begging for help to get top surgery and are met with resistance or well meaning but ignorant messages begging back to not “mutilate” their body.

I think about my surgeon, who was so kind to me and knew what to say when I was scared and crying and alone in my hospital bed.

Your body is there to help you.

Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away.

You’ll be so much happier after the surgery.

You won’t be in pain anymore.

I hope you get your top surgery.

I hope you will be so much happier.

And I hope the pain will end.

[eeriethacus]

I fully believe Neil sent this to the foxes post Baltimore

[genderqueerdykes]

im glad people are becoming aware of how fucked up it is that folks online have almost completely forgotten about trans, intersex and other identifying folks who have gotten bottom surgery. the only times it's brought up, it is to be cruel about the result of the surgery, always saying heinous things about it.

nobody seems to embrace or celebrate for folks who have gotten bottom surgery. we don't have to ignore or demonize these folks, they are still trans, unless they personally now identify as cis. most people who get these surgeries still identify as trans or intersex but even if they don't, we should still celebrate for them.

getting bottom surgery is not a gross thing or something to look down on. these folks are doing what they need to in order to feel like themselves. why are we more accepting about folks who get top surgeries, breast removal or augmentation or experience breast tissue growth, but completely outcast people who have gotten bottom surgeries?

why are we unnecessarily fixating on the genitals of strangers again? the status of their post-op genitals are none of your business. you are not entitled to know the status of their vagina or penis. that is for them and any potential partners to know about. people who have gotten bottom surgery are allowed to love that part of their body, no matter how their surgery affected them. it's none of your business. stop focusing on the genitals of strangers when it doesn't concern you. don't speculate on what post-op genitals are like if you don't have them, yourself.

[dragoncuspid]

Gay ass 😒😒😒

[queerism1969]

[boy-gender]

i want y’all to know i got my top surgery at ~270 pounds and it looks fucking fine like you are not too fat to get top surgery and have it be flat and nice and feel better

[whereserpentswalk]

Reblog if you love transmasc cock and/or transfem pussy!

[mr---cringe]

Kurt was holding a flashlight for him. Done with the claws

[pokemon-radical-red]

Trans men are literally just a joke to so many people. I’ve seen multiple Tik Toks like “When the trans man with HUGE BOOBS(!!!) in a crop top gets mad at me when I misgender him.”

One of these had the OP’s comment of “Why are so many people in my comment section being transphobic towards trans men?”

It’s because you made this a safe space for people who hate trans men!!! You decided to describe trans men’s bodies in dehumanizing, sexualizing ways to make a joke out of us! In what world does “smh trans men are SO EMOTIONAL and expect us to instantly know everything about them and cater to them even though it makes my life so hard (I have to change a word),” not come off as repackaged sexism?

If you say that this is a made up situation, these people will immediately claim that this happens and has happened to them. It’s interesting that either they’re lying or they’re admitting that they’re sexualizing a real man’s body in a way that could easily trigger his gender dysphoria.

[thisnoah]

Transmasc fungus boys +close ups

[sharknado-three]

Testicular implants that make a clown noise when squeezed. Is that something?

[victorzhuzhakin]

TFP obsession after 12 years... is back

As i wrote on my shitpost account (@zhuzhakin-shitpost) my friend went to see the new transformers movie and it made me remember my love for a particular media. I really think TFP is the best in terms of character designs i LOVE them especially that little dumbass

I've been thinking for days about how great an idea it is for Starscream to have makeup. And he is trans man btw

And uh... I love old military men who look like they've been ground up in a meat grinder <3

Of course I brought some old man yaoi for you workers but I made it less toxic than canon for my own comfort

A bit OOC, but I made Megatron just a military man with PTSD who is conservative to the core and therefore has internalized homophobia. Starscream is just little gay guy. Don't hate on me I've loved this ship since I was literally eight years old

[dragoncuspid]

I’m so happy it’s summer and my top surgery scars are completely healed now :)

[prismalmelonman]

So much trans advice I see online is mainly for trans femmes/trans women (in the vein like "estrogen will do x, t and z, be careful!" And things like "testosterone blockers will so these things too") and that's really awesome and I'm glad the girls got each other,

but most of the advice for trans guys i had to seek out myself. (And I still don't know like much past "testosterone makes you retain body heat" and I don't know about any of the other effects like stuff for trans girls being a diuretic and can make hydration harder most of the side effects lists for testosterone therapy don't mention those things despite my hours worth of research) And yeah it's good to do your own research, but like I have to get my warnings from scientific journals and whatnot. I'm not qualified to give any of the advice bc I'm still pre-everything (hormones, surgery). Like social transition is all I have rn. Anyway if there's any good like resources made by trans men/mascs for trans men/mascs please drop it below and we can help our fellow guys out! 🫶

But yeah any trans guys that can offer some health advice regarding post-op, hrt, effects of testosterone and so on, it'd be super appreciated!