#hysterectomy update

[sandpapersnowman]

I am healing well btw!! I peed properly once I got home and got more liquids in me (they wanted me to pee before I left the hospital but they drain your bladder first thing before surgery so I didn't have enough to pee with after and we all wanted to go home so I said I'd come back to the hospital if I couldn't pee before bed)

and I am on laxatives to counteract the Constipation from the oxycodone they gave me

I just feel like my abs are sore from crunches mostly with occasional like period cramp-like pain if I move too fast or bend too far

[crazyboy3million]

Average Thursday for crazy boys

[thelittlestpika]

Transition Update!

Huge step in my transition journey taken today! I talked to my gynecologist today and we came up with a plan of attack to stop my periods! We decided that we'll start with endometrial ablation and insert a progesterone only IUD at the same time to hopefully make the ablation last longer since it isn't a permanent procedure. We're hoping that, by the time the ablation's "shelf life" expires, I'll be in a better place to get a hysterectomy so I can take the months off needed to heal. Hopefully, by this time next month, I'll be able to stop my birth control completely and not have to deal with periods for a few years! Even better, I hope my testosterone will have killed my uterus as much as possible too!

[slimeynightmare]

Update 3:

41 weeks on T, exactly six weeks out from my total hysterectomy. The weirdest thing to adjust to is how much my organs shift around, it really was a terrible feeling at first but I'm used to it now. But I'm cleared for light exercise and... Other things :) ... Now and it's been great, but exhausting, I took a twelve hour nap the other day *_*

[bettercallroasty]

Finally home my jimmy so nice to hold

They gave me an awesome room and awesome food

Constant pain meds and nerve blockers I have an abdomen binder on now im high

[fortitudina]

*OOC. ------ Finally got somewhere today with my gynaecology appointment! After my complaint back in February, after my January appointment and the letter after my ultrasound, I saw the lead endometriosis specialist today. He was beyond amazing and helpful and together, we've come to an agreed management plan ( because there is no just taking it out and it be gone ). From now on, I'll be permanently on Zoladex. This means 6-12 monthly bone density scans because it is effectively a chemical menopause. If the Zoladex continues to work well as it has done the previous two times that I've been on it, then in a few years, maybe sooner, he'll look into removing my ovaries and tubes ( oestrogen is the main cause of endometriosis and removing those will aid in it lessening. ) I went into this appointment so nervous, because I was scared that I would once again get gaslighted and be told the same thing that I was months ago. I left with the biggest sense of relief and finally feeling heard.

[anonymolly]

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[rjalker]

Robot werewolf because I want to try drawing robots.

Yes this robot did get top surgery. And whatever the fuck we're calling a hysterectomy in Cool Trans Slang™

...okay I'm going to google it now after typing that word out. Excuse me. Is the word "hysterical" etymologically related to the uterus/womb. Excuse me.

Edit: oh my fucking gods yes it literally is, the word hysteria literally comes from the word for womb/uterus. Oh my fucking gods.

anyways!! here's the robot!!!

[Image description summary:

Two versions of a drawing of yellow, orange, blue, and purple robot werewolf holds a cane in one hand and a large flag in the other. In the first drawing the flag is blank grey, in the second it is the trans and nonbinary solidarity flag.

The flag has symmetrical stripes of purple, black, blue, pink, yellow, white, yellow, pink, blue, black, and purple.

End summary.

Full image description start:

Two versions of a pencil drawing that has been colored digitally.

The drawing shows a brightly colored bipedal robot werewolf with a very thin, skeletal frame, with curved pointed ears and a short muzzle, and orange ball joints at the elbow, chest, waist, hip, and knee.

Each section of its body is colored in either yellow, orange, blue, or purple, with its head and neck blue and purple, with orange eyes and yellow slitted pupils, yellow and orange shoulders, and a short blue chest that is shaped like a V.

Its spine is blue, with short, cracked purple ribs sticking out, and its hips, made up of an uneven rectangle, are also blue. Its legs and arms between the orange joints are yellow, and its hands are blue, with four fingers.

There are visible cracks on its shoulders, arms, its right wrist, and many of the ball joints.

It is holding a tall, large flag in its left hand which flies behind its shoulders and head, and holds a cane in its right hand.

The flag in the first image is blank grey to match the background, and in the second version shows the trans and nonbinary solidarity flag.

The top part of the cane is also striped with this flag, with two more stripes at the bottom that are cut off by the bottom edge of the picture of orange and yellow.

Its lower legs and feet, and the bottom half of the cane, are out of the frame. Faint lines are visible on the drawing showing that the robot originally had two triangles on its chest place and another triangle covering its stomach.

The robot is standing and turning its head to the right, looking off to the side of the camera with an intense expression.

End Image description.]

[mother-shipper]

Nine days post-op and I'm sure part of it is hormones but I was so relieved to be able to sleep in my bed again that I fully cried.

Also, one incision is itchy as hell! ಠ⁠ ⁠೧⁠ ⁠ಠ

[onrainynights]

so downside is I have to wait like a year for my surgery but the upside is now I'm actually on the list and that wait might actually be shorter because they're starting to pass up people who don't have their paperwork together which apparently has been holding up the line for a long time

[tokitooth]

how many days in a row of this doctor calling me at 8 or 9am and me not answering will it take for her to realize i am not conscious at that time

[tummy-pain]

As someone going through a similar situation, I’d like to share my experience.

I am a 19 y/o transgender man who has been on HRT for a year and a half. I have absolutely no use for my uterus, I’ve always planned on adopting children if I ever decide I want them.

Otherwise? My uterus only causes me pain, stress and dysphoria. I’m horrified of getting pregnant and avoid having a sex life because of it (even with other forms of birth control), and horrendous periods actually run in my family.

And by that I mean that some of my relatives have had to be run to the emergency room because they were loosing a deadly amount of blood from their period. And that my mother, my sister, my sibling and pretty much every other afab family member I have has had such awful period cramps it made them throw up and pass out every time they got their period. So bad, that my mother decided to start me on birth control at 13 years old just so that I didn’t have to go through the same thing.

I know that a hysterectomy sounds intense when I could just get my tubes tied or removed, but I decided long ago that I did not want to deal with any of these issues and the only way to guarantee I wouldn’t have to is to get that sucker removed.

Do you think these issues I have with my uterus are enough to get a doctor to seriously consider me for a hysto? Because I sure didn’t. I requested for a referral to be sent to a trans health center and I didn’t expect to hear back from them. But they got back to me quicker than my request for top surgery did.

Now, the waiting list for a consultation was five months out, and after that is another eight months for surgery, but I got a consultation scheduled just like that. Upon writing this post I had that consultation the other day, and the doctor was already willing to give me a hysto before I even finished my explanation why I wanted one.

It was.. so easy. I expected to have to fight tooth and nail to get this surgery, but all I have to do is wait eight months and drive five hours to get to the health facility. The reason it was so easy? I am transgender, and I live in Oregon. We have one transgender health facility in this state but it is at the largest hospital in the state and it is capable of helping every trans person with any procedure they need. The only downside is the waiting list.

Now, you know how I mentioned that everyone in my family gets those horrific periods? My sister does. My sister, a 25 y/o cis woman who has already had two children. She also took birth control to stop her periods until, of course, she was trying for kids. The first time she had a kid she had to have a C-section two months earlier than the due date, the second time she planned for a C-section from the start just to be safe.

After her second kid she had her tubes removed because she does not want any more. She is now incapable of having kids.

A couple months ago, she started getting these horrific periods again even with birth control. The doctor’s solution is to try several types of birth control and until she’s tried them all for a certain amount of time they won’t even consider her for a hysto. You know why? She’s too young. What if she wants kids. What if she regrets it.

My sister is having horrible reactions to all these birth controls. She has been bleeding for a month straight, she is physically ill and sometimes bedridden, she has worsened depression from it. She has been fighting tooth and nail to get a hysterectomy to stop all this, and the doctors wouldn’t even consider it! Because she ‘might regret it’!

She doesn’t have any fallopian tubes! She cannot have any more children!!

I simply wanted to share how, at least in Oregon, how difficult this process still is for cis women even though trans men/nb people can get the exact same procedure done without hardly a hitch. I consider myself extremely lucky with my ability to get this procedure, and it is absolutely irrational what they are doing to my sister.

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This is maybe the funniest (worst) radfem post I've come across in a while. It was a comment about cis women getting hysterectomies.

Do y'all know how many feminists have been fighting to be allowed to get hysterectomies without a) birthing (often multiple) children or b) a husband's permission? Including many people who have extremely painful and/or dangerous uterus-related conditions, like PCOS or menorrhagia? So many doctors HATE giving hysterectomies specifically because "you really should have kids first".

Also, cis men don't need to "remove their ballsack" to avoid having kids. They get vasectomies. An incredibly simple, routine procedure.

People who are getting hysterectomies are often doing so for reasons not solely related to pregnancy - if it were just about fertility, getting your tubes tied would suffice if you were averse to other forms of birth control. My mum did that after my sister was born, and then went back in for a hysterectomy a few years later because her periods were agonising. My aunty also had a hysto several years back, because not only were her periods agonising, but they would cause flare ups in some of her other conditions.

I just... how are you calling yourself a feminist while advocating for LESS bodily autonomy for women? How can you act like women are being stupid or reckless in their choice to get a hysto and not see the indescribable misogyny you're utilising?

"It's never [cis] men who remove an organ just because they don't want it" yeah, I wonder if that's because they don't have an organ that causes agonising blood loss on a monthly basis? Like... nobody's out here getting kidneys removed for fun. It's a very specific organ only being removed for very specific, personal reasons.

It's my body, not yours. Hands the fuck off.

*This post is authored by a trans person. If you're agreeing with me about this topic while being against trans healthcare, consider that your whole ideology is built in opposition to bodily autonomy for people outside your ideals of gender. Sit with that information.*

[accidentalfudge]

Recovering

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to Thursday! I am 9 days post-op from my hysterectomy, and feeling pretty good. The procedure itself went really smoothly – the whole care team was fabulous, and the only thing that was less-than-stellar was the number of attempts it took to get the IV going, but that was unsurprising (my line is always “I’m not afraid of needles, but my veins are”), and even…

[bettercallroasty]

Life updates

Have a hysterectomy scheduled for next month, anxious, sad, hopeful

[raeathnos]

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[queerism1969]

Notable transgender people from history

Here's the list I put together for when people on non-trans subreddits claim we didn't exist until recently:

Ashurbanipal (669-631BCE) - King of the Neo-Assryian empire, who according to Diodorus Siculus is reported to have dressed, behaved, and socialized as a woman.

Elagabalus (204-222) - Roman Emperor who preferred to be called a lady and not a lord, presented as a woman, called herself her lover's queen and wife, and offered vast sums of money to any doctor able to make her anatomically female.

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1286-1328) - French Jewish philosopher who wrote poetry about longing to be a woman.

Eleanor Rykener (14th century) - trans woman in London who was questioned under charges of sex work

[Thomas(ine) Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(ine)_Hall) - (1603-unknown) - English servant in colonial Virginia who alternated between presenting as a woman and presenting as a man, before a court ruled that they were both a man and a woman simultaneously, and were required to wear both men's and women's clothing simultaneously.

Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810) - French diplomat, spy, freemason, and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War, who transitioned at the age of 49 and lived the remaining 33 years of her life as a woman.

Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) - Quaker religious leader in revolutionary era America who identified and lived as androgynous and genderless.

Surgeon James Barry (1789-1865) - Trans man and military surgeon in the British army.

Berel - a Jewish trans man who transitioned in a shtetel in Ukraine in the 1800's, and whose story was shared with the Jewish Daily Forward in a 1930 letter to the editor by Yeshaye Kotofsky, a Jewish immigrant in Brooklyn who knew Berel

Mary Jones (1803-unknown) - trans woman in New York whose 1836 trial for stealing a man's wallet received much public attention

Albert Cashier (1843-1915) - Trans man who served in the US Civil War.

Harry Allen (1882-1922) - Trans man who was the subject of sensationalistic newspaper coverage for his string of petty crimes.

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886–1954) - socialite, chef and hostess in Oxnard California, whose family and doctors supported her transition at a young age.

Lili Elbe (1882-1931) - Trans woman who underwent surgery in 1930 with Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran one of the first dedicated medical facilities for trans patients.

Karl M. Baer (1885-1956) - Trans man who underwent reconstructive surgery (the details of which are not known) in 1906, and was legally recognized as male in Germany in 1907.

Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962) - Groundbreaking radiologist who pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis detection, and in 1917 he became one of the first trans men to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the US.

[Louise Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lawrence_(activist)) (1912–1976) - trans activist, artist, writer and lecturer, who transitioned in the early 1940's. She struck up a correspondence with the groundbreaking sexologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey as he worked to understand sex and gender in a more expansive way. She wrote up life histories of her acquaintances for Kinsey, encouraged peers to do interviews with him, and sent him a collection of newspaper clippings, photographs, personal correspondences, etc.

Dr. Michael Dillon (1915-1962) - British physician who updated his birth certificate to Male in the early 1940's, and in 1946 became the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty.

Reed Erickson (1917-1992) - trans man whose philanthropic work contributed millions of dollars to the early LGBTQ rights movement

Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax (1916-1992) - early 20th century gospel quartet singer.

Peter Alexander (unknown, interview 1937) - trans man from New Zealand, discusses his transition in this interview from 1937

Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) - The first widely known trans woman in the US in 1952, after her surgery attracted media attention.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (1940-present) - Feminist, trans rights and gay rights activist who came out and started transition in the late 1950's. She was at Stonewall, was injured and taken into custody, and had her jaw broken by police while in custody. She was the first Executive Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, which works to end human rights abuses against trans/intersex/GNC people in the prison system.

Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer and community worker in NYC; co-founded STAR, a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women

Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer; co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera