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kozzax · 4 months ago

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This is a reminder for transmasc people and others who are planning for or have had top surgery following me: breast cancer is transphobic.

The way breast cancer works is that it removes the failsafes that stop breast tissue cells from replicating too fast. It works on a cellular level, so any singular breast tissue cell can start breast cancer.

Most top surgeries are aesthetic in nature, unlike a full double mastectomy which is functional in nature. In day-to-day life, that distinction isn't important. Both of them take away your breasts, so in most situations there's functionally no difference. But breast cancer is transphobic. Breast cancer does not care that you don't visually have breasts, it cares that you have some breast tissue remaining at a cellular level.

Top surgery does not remove all breast tissue. If you have had or are planning to have top surgery, but not a full double mastectomy, you should still be getting preventative screenings.

It sucks! I know it sucks. But breast cancer sucks more. I promise you breast cancer sucks more.

#me vibing #important post #top surgery #transmasc #breast cancer #cancer #<- for blacklists #i was just. talking w some friends about top and how i'm not getting mine for a few years so i can get tested for brca #ive done my research on this shit because my mom has had breast cancer twice in my lifetime #and she got a double mastectomy to prevent a third. and i needed to know everything i could about it #but its. its Really Serious Stuff.#and you Need to be keeping an eye on it.#breast cancer is transphobic. it does not care if you've had top surgery. it does not care if you're a guy or if you're nonbinary.#all it cares about is whether or not there's any breast tissue at a cellular level.#or have brca1 but actually brca1 is the only form of breast cancer thats not transphobic it just hates men in general #cis men can get breast cancer if they have brca1 its wild

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