#SURGERY

[grandpa-spooks]

Christianity on Gender Transitioning

If you're okay with a woman getting her breast tissue reduced because it causes her a lot of pain and no bras are supportive enough, and you're okay with men having vasectomies once they no longer wish to bear children, why are you against gender surgeries and transitions? If top surgery is "mutilation", so is breast reduction. If vaginoplasties are "spitting in the face of God's creation", so are vasectomies.

Gender transitioning is no different than any other surgical procedure-- it is done to improve the quality of your life, and it in no way denies that God made you beautifully in His image. It is because, while God declares you to be beautifully and wonderfully made, physical dysfunction is a normal reality.

As another example, those who are disabled are still created perfectly. Their disability is neither their sin nor God's mistake; it is a condition given to their person and their life, with its challenges but also with its great benefits for them and the Kingdom. At the same time, it is foolishness to suggest that they never lessen the hardship that can come with their disability through surgery, because it will "mess with God's creation". Modern medicine is used by God, including through surgeries.

This concept can be applied beyond disability, back to the woman with the chest/back pain, and the man seeking a permanent contraceptive so his wife can stop worrying about her pill or toxic IUD. We all benefit from surgery in different ways, and for some, that may include gender surgery. How is it different?

If you believe that being transgender is against God’s will, that is another discussion. But it’s odd to target the surgeries as the epitome of ‘the transgender tragedy’ when it’s just another surgery.

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[devilwizard]

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I finally found a doctor that would remove my uterus and I had him preserve it in a jar for me. I gave it to a woman with a trans flag pin that said ‘MTF’ and told her the next time some idiot transphobe told her 'real women have a uterus’, she could now reply with 100% honesty that she, in fact, did have a uterus and the transphobe could die mad about it.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

doin' just fabulous! surgery went great!!

[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.

[wolfeyedwitch]

Yeah, different medications are wild. I've had 3 surgeries and remembered vastly different amounts of stuff from pre-op for all 3, with different levels of clarity.

For a surgery 2 years ago I apparently was extremely concerned that they were going to lose the cloth mask I wore to the hospital. (Covid restrictions, you had to wear something to the hospital and they swapped me to a hospital one while getting me situated on the OR table.) To the point that a nurse teased me about it! But I have absolutely no recollection of that. I remember getting to the OR and transferred to the table but nothing after that, and it's a fuzzy kind of delineation.

I got ketamine as part of that anesthesia cocktail, so that might be part of it. I don't remember any of the other medication names because I was focused on "wow it must have been a fun party to give me Special K and I dont even remember it!" Post-op me thought that was a hilarious joke.

My first surgery was over a decade ago, so any memory fuzziness could be from that. But I distinctly remember that a nurse introduced herself beforehand saying "I'll be walking you back to the OR later, but you won't remember that part, so I'm introducing myself now!" And I in fact do remember her wheeling me back to the OR. I also got a nerve block for that surgery, with a GIANT FRICKIN NEEDLE going into my armpit, and the nurses doing it were like "it's fine, don't worry, you won't remember this anyway." And I REMEMBER THAT PART TOO. I REMEMBER. It didn't help that they MISSED, too, so I got stabbed with a giant needle for nothing! Wheee! The first thing I said when I woke up? "Ow"

I think whump writing has changed my brain chemistry. I almost passed out today and my biggest thought was "take notes about how this feels, it will make for good details in writing!"

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Anatomical Venus I

[toyastales]

Good morning!

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[kathaynesart]

The final commission for @justletmereadmycomics is complete! Haha it was such an interesting request! I have never drawn Monkey Kid style before, but it was a lot of fun. Poor Donnie, I'm sure he'll bounce back like he always does though.

I also wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who supported and sent kind words to my friend in regards to her surgery. It meant so much to us both and helped her immensely. I'm happy to announce that her extensive surgery was a success! She's five pounds lighter due to the amount of endometriosis they had to remove and it had even reached parts of her liver, gut, and lungs which have now been purged. I'm so grateful to you all and her amazing surgeons! Now time for the healing process!

[deep-dark-fears]

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[magnetothemagnificent]

I find it interesting how people don't seem to know about or expect trans men to get bottom surgery or other masculinizing surgery and treat top surgery as *the* surgery. Like, I saw my anthropology mentor today and I hadn't seen her since before I had surgery, and she said something along the lines of like "it must be such a relief to get *the* big surgery over with", as if top surgery would be the only major surgery I could feasibly get over the course of my transition. And you see this a lot with people equating trans men with having a vulva, using terms like "boypussy" (a personal ick) when referring to sexual experiences involving trans men, as if trans men couldn't possibly have other genitalia. And of course facial masculinization surgery is also a thing many trans men opt for, but it is never talked about as even a potential resource for trans men, despite it being a valid option.

Personally, I think top surgery is it for me. I would love to be able to get bottom surgery, but unfortunately I have genitourinary disorders and I don't think it's a good idea to mess with anything down there. But if I didn't have those disorders, bottom surgery would not be off the table. And getting a hysterectomy or something similar certainly is *not* off the table, I would like to get some sort of sterilization procedure at some point.

I don't know if this is part of people thinking trans men somehow have an easier time "passing" than other trans people without significant intervention (we don't) or people being uncomfortable with the idea of trans men "ruining" our femalehood, or maybe it's a combination of both ideas and others, but it's just such a frustrating phenomena.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was trying to get top surgery. In Minecraft.

The surgery scars had a cyan glow but so did the nipples.

Why did I have nipples?

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

Dinosaur freezes a large amount of food and considers himself very well prepared indeed to recover from surgery.

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