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[medesthetiks]

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Hair transplantation is a surgical process that involves moving hair follicles from one region of the body, known as the donor site, to balding or bald areas, known as the recipient site. This surgery is mostly used to treat male-pattern baldness, but it can also improve the hairline and restore brows, eyelashes, and beard hair. The most popular approaches are Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT) and Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE), each with benefits. Furthermore, new techniques and instruments have made the treatments less painful, resulting in faster recovery and less scarring. These types significantly affect hair transplant costs.

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The effectiveness of hair transplants varies greatly across individuals, but when performed by trained and experienced surgeons, they have a high success rate. According to studies, 85–95% of all implanted grafts thrive in their new location. However, it is essential to establish realistic expectations. The success of a hair transplant is determined not only by hair growth but also by creating natural-looking hair density and pattern.

Factors Influencing the Success Rate of Hair Transplant Surgery

Several factors influence the outcome of a hair transplant procedure:

Quality of Donor Hair: The density, texture, and quality of the donor hair considerably impact the final appearance.

Technique: FUT and FUE have varying success ratios, recovery durations, and the possibility for natural-looking outcomes.

Surgeon Expertise: The skill and expertise of the surgeon performing the procedure are critical to its success.

Post-Surgery Care: Following post-operative care guidelines can help with the healing process and the development of transplanted hair. It can also reduce the hair transplant cost.

What to Expect After Surgery

After a hair transplant, it is usual for the transplanted hair to fall out within the first few weeks, a process known as “shock loss.” However, this is a natural part of the healing process, and new hair growth should begin within three to four months. It may take up to a year to see the full impact of the transplant, with hair progressively growing thicker and more resilient.

Realistic Expectations

A hair transplant may substantially enhance one’s look and self-confidence, but setting realistic expectations is crucial. It is not a treatment for baldness but rather a method for redistributing existing hair to cover bald or thinning regions.

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[fakeusernamelol]

I'm thinking about the "Ford performing an incredibly botched top surgery on Stan" again because I'm a sucker for self surgery even though I know nothing about actual surgeries. It got me wondering how plausible it is, with Ford swiping a scalpel from school's biology lab that they used to dissect frogs or something. The anesthesia being just getting Stan black out drunk. All done on a water bed (cuz it's easier to clean up) with a extremely rudimentary liposuction machine that Ford built himself. Ford trying so fucking hard to steel himself as if he's not about to perform surgery on Stan when all the knowledge he had was from an anatomy textbook that he borrowed from the library, all while doing it in a hardly sterile room. It's a miracle that Stan didn't die from septic shock

M HELLO MOOTIE SO HAPPY TO SEE YOU HERE ONCE AGAIN and even happier that you liked that idea i had a while ago 😈😈😈💓💖💓💖

I really love this headcanon of ford thinking he can do even more than he is able too, he was a teen with an unbridled ego product of growing up with clear favoritism due to his achievements by his teachers and his father, stanford was told to be a genius but in a teenager mind having a thought so deep into his brain could lead to an dangerous ambition by wanting to prove he was that genius people said he was or even beyond that..

So, when he heard his brother complain from time to time about how uncomfortable the bandages he used to bind his chest were, he immediately thought that he could be able to help his dear brother problem. He has read various medical magazines and human biology books, Performing a surgery to Stanley at home didn't sound like something really difficult so he promised him he would do it! And even if stan wasn't really sure if it was a good idea in his deep down, Ford seemed so confident about that and well, it was his brother, he knew better than him and wouldn't make anything bad to him so he finally accepted to continued with the procedure.

He borrow some things from his dissection practices, towels from the kitchen, the first aid kit from the pawn shop, the gloves mom used to clean the dishes along with the disinfectant products to clean the scalpel and finally a bottle of fine wine from the collection his father kept in his office as an homemade anesthesia (only thing i would change is that i dont think they would own a water bed more when at the time they were such a new and expensive thing for a middle class family lol so i do think their surgery room would be the bathtub one day while his parents where out of home lol)

Ford prepared the bathtub along the utensils trying to get them as sterilized as possible while also reviewing once again the anatomy book he brought as a guide while Stan drank the bottle of wine to the bottom till get black out. When Stan was finally unconscious ford was ready to start with the surgery...

In order to perform a medical procedure you must have studies and a degree in it. Ford learned it while he was calling 911 almost crying of fear while trying to stop the hemorrhage from Stan's chest that along with the mix of alcohol in his body was getting worsened with every minute it passed. Luckily for both of them stan didn't die but he did end up in the hospital for a few weeks with their parents very angry with stan because they thought he had done it to himself while Ford was incredibly regretful for almost killing his brother to prove a point to himself. Good thing? The top surgery was a success! Well, i mean Stan now had a ugly big scar all over his chest and was being medicated for the not-so-unexpected infection he ended up with, but at least he could go out without a shirt now!! and that's got Ford being forgiven by stan lol

[fatphobiabusters]

Hank Green released a short about whether y'all people are more likely to get cancer. The answer is yes! Every 5 cm of height increases the risk of several cancers by 5-10%.

In the screenshot of the website explaining this he was showing, it said "unlike being ov*rweight or ob*se, height..." I assume that was followed by "cannot be modified." (Censorship mine). But of course weight cannot be modified either, and there's no proof it makes people healthier to force it. We certainly don't advocate for leg shortening surgeries or artificially halting growth hormonally when someone is tall.

Exactly, we don't encourage people to cut their shins in half "for health". I looked the youtube short up, basically bigger you are the more cells you have but fat cells don't actively divide like say, skin cells. You start with small cells, they get bigger and if needed will divide. So even loosing weight without lipo won't reduce your cells (weight loss basically changes density and size of the cell ? Is again my understanding i could be wrong) and it sounds like the cells aren't replicating like other cells. (My limited understanding is) Every time the DNA inside a cell is read to make a new cell it runs a risk of being read wrong which creates mutated cells (cancer) (iirc benign cancer is when it's read wrong but isn't spreading, it's made limited error copies and the other type of cancer is making nothing but the wrong copies) instead fat cells get big and split, there's no code reading.

I suppose it is correct that it is generally more accepted to perform liposuction on a person than one of those height altering surgeries (usually it's to make someone taller however).

This makes me wonder how much cancer rates change with appendix and gallbladder removal. Obviously without them you can't get those organ specific cancers but the thing about statistics is, there's always fine print.

"Your overall cancer rate drops 5% if you remove your appendix and gallblader" is a hilarious headline to imagine. When in reality your risk of appendix and gallbladder cancer goes to zero outside of like accidentally left behind pieces or something.

Anyway what a weird place for the article to go to. At most you can argue bigger bodies are at a higher risk of certain cancers related to hormones (I can't recall the exact phrasing) because fat cells can also store hormones (iirc) and could be problems for hormone sensitive organs like ovaries. So the website itself was being weirdly fatphobic for no reason if my grasp of things is accurate to the thesis.

But anyway, I'm 6 feet (182 cm) tall and come from a family of giants where I'm the shortest sibling so this is actually somewhat relevant to my personal life and something I'll be extra aware of!

-mod squirrel

[eternal-echoes]

“Even if surgery sometimes lessens dysphoria, the question must be raised: Is this the best standard of care? For example, if a person experiences body dysmorphic disorder and wishes to have a healthy limb amputated, could the surgical removal of the body part ease his dysphoria? It likely would. If a young anorexic woman is dysphoric about her weight, would a regimen of diet pills and liposuction perhaps make her feel less unhappy when she critiques herself in the mirror? Probably for a time. If a child feels dysphoric about school, would allowing him to drop out ease his anxiety? Without question! But is anyone convinced that any of these decisions are ultimately in the best interest of the individuals?”

-Jason Evert, Male, Female, or Other: A Catholic Guide to Understanding Gender

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For more recommended resources on gender dysphoria, click here.

[haggishlyhagging]

Between 1984 and 1986, the number of liposuction operations rose 78 percent—but the procedure barely worked. Liposuction removed only one to two pounds of fat, had no mitigating effect on the unseemly "dimpling" effect of cellulite, and, in fact, often made it worse. The procedure also could produce permanent bagginess in the skin and edema, just two of the "variations from the ideal" that the plastic surgery society cataloged in its own report. Another "variation" on the list: "pain."

Furthermore, the plastic surgery society's survey of its members turned up several other unfortunate incidents. A liposuction patient lay down to have stomach fat removed and woke up with a perforated bowel and fecal matter leaking through the abdominal cavity. Three patients developed pulmonary infections and two had massive infections. Three suffered pulmonary fat embolism syndrome, a life-threatening condition in which fat can lodge in the heart, lungs, and eyes. And "numerous patients" required, as the survey delicately put it, "unplanned transfusions." On March 30, 1987, Patsy Howell died of massive infections three days after a liposuction operation performed by Dr. Hugo Ramirez, a gynecologist who ran a plastic surgery clinic in Pasadena, Texas. The same day Howell had her operation, Ramirez performed liposuction on Patricia Rogers; she also developed massive infections, was hospitalized in critical condition, and eventually had to have all her skin from below her chest to the top of her thighs removed.

Howell, a thirty-nine-year-old floral shop manager and the mother of two sons, submitted to liposuction to remove a small paunch on her five-foot-one frame. She weighed only 120 pounds. “This literature she got at a shopping mall said the procedure was so simple,” her friend Rheba Downey told a reporter. “She said, ‘Why not?’” She made up her mind after reading Ramirez's newspaper ad, calling the surgery "the revolutionary technique for reduction of fat without dieting." No one told her about the dangers. Ramirez operated on more than two hundred women, causing numerous injuries and two deaths before his license was finally revoked.

By 1987, only five years after the fat-scraping technique was introduced in the United States, the plastic surgery society had counted eleven deaths from liposuction. A 1988 congressional subcommittee placed the death toll at twenty. And the figure is probably higher, because patients' families are often reluctant to report that the cause of death is this "vanity" procedure. A woman in San Francisco, for example, who was not on the surgery society's or Congress's list, died in 1989 from an infection caused by liposuction to her stomach; the infection spread to her brain, her lungs collapsed, and she finally had a massive stroke. But her family was too ashamed about the procedure to bring it to public attention.

The society's 1987 report on liposuction, however, seemed less concerned with safety than with "the reputation of suction lipectomy," which its authors feared had been "marred by avoidable deaths and preventable complications." It concluded that all problems with liposuction could be easily solved with "guidelines governing who is permitted to perform and advertise surgical procedures." In other words, just get rid of the gynecologists and dermatologists and leave the surgery to them.

Yet some of the liposuction patients had died at the hands of plastic surgeons. And the most common cause of death was the release of fat emboli into the heart, lungs, and brain—a risk whenever inner layers of epidermis are scraped, no matter how proficient the scraper. As even the report acknowledged: "[Liposuction] is by its nature a tissue-crush phenomenon. Therefore, fat embolism is a realistic possibility."

Surgeons also marketed the injection of liquid silicone straight into the face. Vogue described it this way: "Plastic surgery used to be a dramatic process, but new techniques now allow doctors to make smaller, sculptural facial changes." This "new" technique was actually an old practice that had been used by doctors in the last backlash era to expand breasts—and abandoned as too dangerous. It was no better the second time around; thousands of women who tried it developed severe facial pain, numbing, ulcerations, and hideous deformities. One Los Angeles plastic surgeon, Dr. Jack Startz, devastated the faces of hundreds of the two thousand women he injected with liquid silicone. He later committed suicide.

For the most part, these doctors were not operating on women who might actually benefit from plastic surgery. In fact, the number of reconstructive operations to aid burn victims and breast cancer patients declined in the late '80s. For many plastic surgeons, helping to boost women's self-esteem wasn't the main appeal of their profession. Despite the ads, the doctors were less interested in improving their patients' sense of "control" than they were in improving their own control over their patients. "To me," said plastic surgeon Kurt Wagner, who operated on his wife's physique nine times, "surgery is like being in the arena where decisions are made and no one can tell me what to do." Women under anesthesia don't talk back.

-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

[lonelystotch19]

Linda and Stephen Stotch Evolution (Character Analyisis)

hey y'all, here's a first.

I dont usually make posts like these, but I kinda have the motive to make this one in particular to help clear up misconceptions or what not.

Today's topic is about THE STOTCHES. Notorious stotch, aka, the most hated characters in SP. if not Pip. These two are loathed by the fandom and are seen as just abusive parents without much development. While a bit underused compared to the Broflovskis, Marshes, and even Liane, they get a lot of screen time and development. I think they are actually the most complex between them, and the McCormicks. So let's dive into the evolution of Butters' parents, Linda and Stephen Stotch.

Chapter 1: Early Years

Did you know, Stephen was actually present in the show before Linda and was even a bit more prominent than Butters. He made his first appearance in "Chickenlover" as apart of a riot after Officer Barbrady quits. Interestingly, he has a different look here;

He has pink cheeks for some reason

He is missing his tie and collar

his eyebrows are slightly bigger

Stephen continued to make background appearances in the show, from working at a movie theater to jury against Cartman's "hate crime"

Stephen made his first speaking role in "Quintuplets 2000", as a protestor. We get a glimpse of his comedic potential, which I believe is a crucially overlooked part in Steve's character.

"The Wacky Molestation Adventure" marks the episode where Stephen is shown as Butters' father and Linda's own debut. From this onward, just like with Butters, the Stotches oversaw an increase in prominence. "How to Eat with Your Butt" is the first time the Stotches ground Butters, for making a silly face apperantly, and from here, this is where the Stotches became noticed as characters. After this, the family have their first major role in "Butters' Very Own Episode", by far their most infamous appearance.

Chapter 2: Stotches' Spotlight

Butters' Very Own Episode is the first instance where the Stotches recieve any crucial development. At first, they appear as a loving, normal family. At the events of the episode, it is the wedding anniversary of Butters' parents, and here, we get a bit of characterization from Linda; she feels that Stephen outranks her gifts with his own, implying a bit of insecurity and/or an inferiority complex. When she sends Butters to spy on his dad, they discover that Stephen was actually going to gay bathhouses while calming he was "working out". She snaps from this revelation and goes insane.

What comes next is certainly one of the most infamous moments in the entire show. Linda tries to drive her son into a lake, and then attempts to commit suicide. These moments right here is what makes Butters' Very Own Episode of the most horrific yet well excuded episodes. I dig this characterization of Linda, being mentally unstable. Stephen was actually relatively lenient in this episode, and had the personality of a well meaning father.

What was revealed in the episode makes me believe that the Stotches are one of the most layered parents in the show. Stephen's sexuality is an interesting concept, and they do tackle it in a later episode in a more subdue way. Linda stole the show, though, and her moments are some of the most iconic.

After this episode, the Stotches become a bit of wild characters. While most would sum up their personality as just "abusive parents", I'd argue they had a bit of inconsistent characterization. They seem to be strict, but they sometimes range between normal, insane, abusive, or just stupid. Case in point, "Jared Has Aides" portrayed them as very strict and downright abusive. When Butters was manipulated into performing liposuction surgery after gaining weight, his parents grounded him (seems understandable, albiet a bit harsh, right). Then, when Cartman had to fill for Butters and impersonated him while calling his parents, he curses them out, angering them. When they arrived home, they start beating up Butters. Meanwhile, "Asspen" sees them as completely normal parents.

Throughout Season 6, they flip-flip between being strict to loving. In "My Future Self n' Me", they enlist Butters a Future Self in fear of him taking up drugs and achohol in the future. When Butters finds out about this and covers their house in feces as revenge, instead of punishing him, they realize their mistake and apologize to Butters for lying to him. A lot of people overlook this moment when talking about the Stotches' parenting. Even though they are often strict and authorian, they are capable of realizing the errors of their ways and treating Butters better.

Throughout their appearances, Linda and Stephen are often resonable when they aren't punishing Butters, such as "Raisins". By Season 8, their abusive tendecies and incompetent parenting start to become more frequent, doing deeds such as selling Butters to Paris Hilton, not letting him as Trent Boyett threatens him while Butters screams in fear, falsely believing Butters had multiple personality disorder and putting him through hell, also falsely believing he was bi-curious and putting him in a gay conversion camp, etc.

"Majorine" is their biggest episode since Butters' Very Own Episode, and it puts the Stotches closer to insanity. Butters fakes his own death and leaves his parents in shambles. Linda is absolutely heart-torn by her son's apperant death, and is a good example of her being an impactful character. Stephen goes insane as well, and decides to dig up "Butters' Corpse" and revive him. After Butters actually comes home, they believe him to be a hell spawn. Freaking out, they lock him in the basement, where they feed him the corpse of a lady Stephen had killed. It's probably the most insane episode, tbh. We also see that the Stotches apparently have homicidal tendencies, as Linda was about to drown her own son while Stephen killed someone just to feed Butters.

At the same time, the Stotches seem to have their own characterization outside of their relationship with Butters. Stephen in particular is often a major secondary character in the episodes focusing on Randy. He helps him and Gerald stop Global Warming in "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow". Linda has a major part in "South Park is Gay!", where she is one of the moms who protest against the Metrosexual trend. In "Night of the Living Homeless", Linda and Stephen alongside Randy, Jimbo, and few other fugitives get stuck on a roof after an outbreak of homeless people. Linda has a major role in "Die Hippie, Die", where she is the engineer for Cartman's crew that tries to get rid of the hippies. Linda also gets a good bit in "Eek, A Penis!", where she gets scared of Mr. Garrison's penis that runs across her house. Stephen is also a major side character in "More Crap" as one of the people who supports Randy after his world record for biggest crap gets beaten by Bono, and even gives a powerful speech to Randy. Stephen also gets a funny bit in "About Last Night…", where he is a John McCain supporter and goes livid after he lost to Obama. He is also one of the fathers who rally to get rid of the UPS man when they believe they were banging their wives, and plays a pretty big part.

All that being said, there's one episode that reveals a backstory for the Stotches. After Butters has a meltdown at school, his parents decide to send him to Hawaii for him to discover more on his origins. Turns out, the Stotches aren't from South Park, but instead, Hawaii (or Hava'i).

In short, the Stotches had an odd history since their first spotlight episode. They seem to had inconsistent characterization, going from a normal family, to a dysfunctional one. That being said, one should that they share a bit in common with Randy and Sheila, namely their incompetence, insanity, and strictness. They seem to have good-intentions, but are too stupid to realize their terrible actions. But contary to popular belief, they aren't entirely Butters centric characters. At times, they seem to act as supporting characters to Randy subplots, especially Stephen, who is usually featured heavily in these sort of episodes.

Chapter 3: Modern Era Stotches What a lot of people seem to overlook when the Stotches are a point of discussions is that, they aren't really the same characters as they were in the early seasons. Well, in terms of being abusive and callous. They are a lot less cruel towards Butters and only really ground him when he absolutely deserves it. Stephen in particular gets a lot of roles in episodes as just a guy, and is primarily uses for the sake of comedy. In "The Magic Bush" for example, he goes insane after believing his drone had a mind of its own, and seem pretty passionate about drones in general. But what really stands out is how he never thinks about the possibilty of Butters flying that drone, which he, Cartman, and Kenny did. He is a lot more loving in this episode, and people seem to overlook that when they discuss how abusive they were in early seasons. He also gets a funny bit in "Franchise Prequel" where he grounds both Butters and Vladimir Putin.

In general, whenever Stephen makes an appearances, it usually for a quick joke, or as just apart of the guys. He gets a good bit in "Sponsored Content", where he provides hillarious commentary on pop-up ads. In "Sons of Witches", he is apart of the band of witches led by Randy and was nearly sacrificed. In "A Boy And A Priest", he cracks a few jokes with Randy. He also helps Liane give Cartman his flew shot in "Shots!!!".

In Season 19, Linda is seen more often with the City Council than her with her own husband and son, though she rarely spoke. In general, from this point, she started to become less depent on Stephen and Butters as a character. In "Dead Kids", she and Harriet Biggle bring Sharon to South Park Elementary where Randy sings. In "Turd Burgular", she, Sheila, Laura, and Harriet are given a much bigger role, where Stephen and Butters are not present. Linda gets jealous of Sheila's fecal transplant and tries to steal her feces. In "End of Obesity", she, Laura, Mrs. Tweek, and other moms are hooked onto an obesity drug, and after running out, they start robbing sources of the drug.

Meanwhile, Stephen was also the main protagonist of the Amazon Dulogy where he gets a new job at the Amazon Fulfillment Center. He is among the adults who loses their Christmas spirit after liquor is banned in "Christmas Snow". He also gets multiple shining moments in in "The Pandemic Special", mainly in protest against the Pandemic and how people wear their masks, calling them "Chin Diapers", which was pretty funny. They get yet another big episode with Linda and Mr. Mackey in "Back To The Cold War".

Chapter 4: Video Games

Aside from their mainline episode appearances, the Stotches are featured in the video games as well. There's not much to note in the first, but Fractured But Hole has a slew of lore for them.

Stephen himself is a boss, and players are finally given the satisfaction of beating him up. I believe this is one Stephen's best appearances, seeing him as incompetent, authorial, and hilariously evil. Apart from that, there is a small quest where the player must break into a safe in Stephen's room. In the safe, there is a picture of him having sex with another man. Additionally, Linda is seen taking a bath while reading "Dealing with your gay husband". Linda herself shows more of her insanity when you talk to her. She also shows herself to be a bit of a neat freak. Chapter 5: Conclusion

So in short, the Stotches are pretty interesting characters to say the least. They had a wild evolution, and most people don't even pay attention to it. They went from generic background characters, to the occasionally abusive parents of Butters, to supporting players in Randy plot tines, to comedic characters on their own. Whenever I see a discussion relating to the Stotches, its always about their abusive relationship with Butters. Even since the beginning, I disagree with this notion, they started out as silly side characters with tons of quirks. They evolved into dickish characters, but the later seasons appear to have abandon this in favor of comedic and entertaining characters.

In my opinion, their modern character traits are being stubborn, silly, insane, and well intended. They are pretty iconic characters, and Majorine and Butters' Very Own Episode are probably some of the most iconic episodes. I feel like they're criminally underappreciated, especially for their comedy. I'd argue they rival Cartman in hilarity.

So yeah, that was my character analysis on The Stotches. Um, yeah. Hope you enjoy, i guess :>

[mithliya]

Hi! Do you think you could explain how gender critical people can support body autonomy in cases like abortion but not transition? I know you believe that medical transition doesn't change someone's gender. But under the ideals of body autonomy, would you support a woman taking T if she still called herself a woman instead of a calling herself a trans man?

And in general, I know radfems are anti-plastic surgery, but wouldn't that too fall under one's body autonomy?

I'm just trying to figure out radfem and gc ideas but I'm running into some inconsistencies.

honestly i was a bit baffled by this ask and couldn't help but feel like its bait bc ... how is cosmetic surgery that is harming your body, incredibly expensive, and done as a result of self-hatred the same as not wanting to carry a baby & go thru the risks of pregnancy for 9 months? to me these are such blatantly, fundamentally different things. but let me assume this isn't bait and you're asking in good faith and address your points.

I know you believe that medical transition doesn't change someone's gender.

this shows a complete lack of understanding on what beliefs i even hold. i don't think medical transition "doesn't change someone's gender" i know it doesn't change a person's *SEX*. this difference is very crucial. gender = gender roles, gendered expectations, etc. it is a social construct. it has nothing to do with anything medical nor biological, its a social contruct that varies across time and cultures.

But under the ideals of body autonomy, would you support a woman taking T if she still called herself a woman instead of a calling herself a trans man?

why would i support the act of taking synthetic hormones which are actively harming your health just as long as you Identify a certain way? it doesn't matter to me what you call yourself. i'm critical of medical transition because it is costly, harmful, and rooted in questionable beliefs. i'm critical of how readily it is promoted. i am critical of how profitable it is to pharmaceutical and medical industries. i am critical of how little research is being put into ensuring the safety of it as well as research into other methods of dealing with sex dysphoria. whether you call yourself a man or a woman is the least of my concerns.

you use the term bodily autonomy, but you seem to be under the belief that bodily autonomy = a person gets to do whatever they want with their body and their choices are always above any criticism or analysis and it does not matter how much their choices are harming them or others. by that logic, if you don't support an anorexic woman starving herself or getting a liposuction, you are against her bodily autonomy because you are not allowing her full agency over her body. by that logic, if a woman tells you she wants to get a BBL or have implants put in, you need to validate and encourage that choice because to question harming your body is to oppose bodily autonomy. but that is not what bodily autonomy is. here is a definition:

Body autonomy is defined as the ability of one person to demonstrate power and agency over choices concerning their own bodies. These choices must be made without fear, threat, violence or coercion from others.

Body autonomy allows individuals the freedom to make their own choices about their bodies. This is significant to a person’s health and wellbeing.

now, if there is a group of people being told that they need to transition ASAP and being told constantly that without transition they will kill themselves, is that or is that not going to instill fear? because if i was told that i need to take an action as early as possible, lest my life be miserable and doomed, then im going to want to urgently take such an action out of fear. if parents are being told "do you prefer to have a dead daughter or a living son?" or w/e, is that not coercion and threats?

moreover, we know taking synthetic hormones for cosmetic purposes can be extremely harmful for one's health. women with high levels of testosterone naturally suffer from a lot of health consequences as a result, nevermind people who alter their body's hormones. this is fundamentally different from a woman choosing to get an abortion because a pregnancy is costly, risky, has health consequences, and will impact her entire life for at least the next 18 years of her life.

that said, i'm not blaming people who do pursue cosmetic procedures or artificial hormones and i'm not against them. i am against the industries promoting this and making it difficult to even have a conversation on this, even pushing against research that does not benefit their financial interests. i am against the promotion of cosmetic surgery as necessary, healthy, and somehow healthcare. i think that there NEEDS to be more research into medical transition, the impacts it has on health, its usefulness and helpfulness, and alternative treatments. the lack of such research and the lack of constructive conversation on this topic is where my concerns lie. not with identity politics like what someone calls themselves while harming their bodies.

so ultimately, i'm not understanding what you think is an inconsistency here. questioning profitable industries and cosmetic surgery which are modern inventions rooted in amplifying people's, namely women's, insecurities for the sake of profit is not at all the same as an abortion and it's worrying to me that you don't see the difference. providing blind affirmation to every choice an individual makes is not bodily autonomy, its individualism and liberalism to another degree. bodily autonomy is allowing individuals the right to make informed, healthy, decisions for themselves. a woman deciding she does not want to go through 9 months of pregnancy and 18 years of child-rearing is not the same as a woman deciding she hates her body and thus MUST get a boob job (which ultimately harms this person's health rather than helping), or someone deciding they hate their sex and thus MUST get surgeries to pass for a different sex (which also ultimately negatively impacts the person's health, even if it provides some psychological relief which potentially could've been gained via a different approach like therapy).

[mueritos]

hey, i'm a trans guy and i'd really like to lose fat especially in my thighs and hips, is it possible to target a certain area to lose fat? And if yes, how?

heya! unfortunately you cannot spot fat removal like that without like, liposuction. if you want to remove mass from one part of your body, you’ll need to lose mass overall. you can however build muscle instead and you can build muscle in other parts of your body so that your frame looks different. either way, consult with a doc if you do want to lose weight so you have a plan to safely do so.

id also like to note that even if mass was lost in the areas you want them to, your body’s genetics and whether or not youre on T can only do so much, so you may still have some mass there. see what you can do, but if youre interested, there is body masculinizing surgery for folks who have a lot of dysphoria in their hips.

hope that helped! i hope youre able to find comfort and joy in your body in all states of being <3

[emphasisonthehomo]

An incomplete list of things that instragram has arbitrarily decided that I’m interested in, when I have never sought out or interacted with any of said content, except to say again and again that I don’t give a shit and I don’t want to be shown it:

Christianity

Islam

Judaism

Neo paganism

Witchcraft

Lana del Rey /Taylor Swift/Chappell Roan (I’m lumping these into one, because it’s like every other week the algorithm decides I must love some random white popstar)

Hairdresser/barbershop (braiding, extension installs, fades, hair dye, wigs, etc.)

Cars/motorcycles (including street racing, low riders, classic cars, etc.)

Nails (press on, nail decorating, etc.)

Lash extensions

Mommyblog/family blogging content

Pro vegan propaganda

Anti vegan propaganda

Right wing qanon brianrot

The worst liberal hot takes you’ve ever heard

Fishing (creating handmade lures/people holding up fish, etc.)

ASMR/satisfying videos (slime, soap cutting, people clacking their nails on shit, etc.)

Pimple popping (🤮)

Van life

Text to speech readings of reddit posts

10000 podcasts I’ve never heard of in my entire life

Gymfluencers

Bigoted memes

South Park/Family Guy/other bad tv shows

High school theater content

Random sports (baseball, cricket, f1 etc.)

Cosplayers

Anime clips

Furries

Joe Rogan

K pop

Balloon arch companies

Weddings (photographers, planners, people getting married, etc.)

Nurses violating HIPAA

Cosmetic procedures (botox, lip filler, liposuction, plastic surgery, etc.)

Niche memes about industries I’m not in (construction, car sales, landscaping, etc.)

Straight couples

Those man on the street videos where people shove a mic and a camera into a stranger’s face and ask them questions.

Full on tradwife shit

It’s not that these are all “bad” things or anything (though obviously some of them are absolute horseshit) it’s just that I Do Not Care, and no matter how many times I’m say this, I can’t avoid that content.

And I think that says a lot about how you can’t curate your own online experience anymore, without some algorithm trying to shove something down your throat.

[dannychai1617]

hey! i recently had top surgery (woohoo!), and i thought I'd write down what the whole process was like for me, from start to finish (aka 6 weeks later). i hope this helps anybody looking into top surgery or just looking for someone else's experience!

quick info:

i got ftm top surgery as a transmasc person on October 23rd, 2024. i got the double incision type, without nipple grafts, plus liposuction. my surgeon was Dr. Rukmini Rednam in Houston, Texas, USA.

vv link below vv

this link is to a Dropbox PDF. if for whatever reason you can't access it, I'll reblog this post soon with just the plain text from the file! there are no photos or anything in this file, and no graphic descriptions, just quick summaries and a general timeline.

[ovaruling]

Hey! Sorry if you get this a lot, but you mentioned in your one really long post that you'd maybe talk about the "non-invasive" procedures one day. I have a friend considering a few (notably that ice fat removal one, cryo something) and I was hoping you could tell a bit more about your experiences with them. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

hi! i’m happy to discuss, definitely. i hope you don't mind my publishing this, because i haven't yet had a chance to publicly talk about CoolSculpt (similar if not identical in fashion to cryo- methods of "fat removal") or other med spa procedures, and i'd like to add this to my anti-cosmetic surgery tag. if you're not comfortable with this ask being published, please let me know asap and i will remove it without issue!

if your friend is indeed interested in CoolSculpt, my caution there is firstly going to revolve around Linda Evangelista, the 90s supermodel.  

her story about PAH (paradoxical adipose hyperplasia) that she experienced because of CoolSculpt is harrowing. here’s an article about it.

this happens a lot more with CoolSculpt than most people realize. i didn't experience PAH necessarily, but i will say that when i got CoolSculpt on my inner thighs, it left them extremely, extremely lumpy, and hardened. i already had one spot--about the size of a prune--on one of my inner thighs from when i got actual liposuction. i figured it wasn't the end of the world, and ignored it as best i could.

but when i went in and got CoolSculpt, i noticed in the weeks afterward that my thighs looked... bumpy. lumpy. like there were small, hard avocado pits underneath my skin. of course, i freaked out. i didn't know why it looked like that--the technician and the ads had all said it would be left smooth, fat-free, no trace of a procedure left behind.

before my last session (CoolSculpt takes multiple sessions), i asked the technician to take a look. she said, "oh, that'll go away in a few weeks. your body just has to detox it."

i was skeptical, but i wanted so much to believe she was right.

i waited, and i waited. i waited some more. weeks and weeks and weeks passed. not a single change.

i still don't rightly know what happened. i haven't quite had the time to get it checked out, because, depressingly, this disfigurement is very low on my list compared to my more pressing issues atm.

i also want to mention that i got CoolSculpt on my arms (they offered me a free "area" with my purchase of the inner thighs) and so i figured i'd try to get rid of some of my the fat under my biceps and triceps. all that happened was that the skin began to droop and sag. CoolSculpt did not transform my arms into firm, smooth limbs, not by any stretch. (there was no muscle there, so obv this was gonna happen!)

so, the inner thighs remain a mystery to me. the hardened lumps are still there, and seem benign, but they are extremely annoying. and i no longer care what they look like, but back when i did, the extremely firm lumpiness really, really bothered me. it was like huge ocean waves, frozen. Linda described her aftermath as "protrusions," and i kind of relate, honestly. i don't have it nearly as intensely as she does, but protrusions is a perfect way to describe the behavior of the flesh post-CoolSculpt.

as i've built more muscle in my legs over time, the lumps are less visible, but i still feel them there. it's really unsettling. makes me think of having parasites under my skin, which then makes me really queasy and panicked. but i can't do anything about them.

i got one suggestion to try to massage them, because they may just be gnarled tissue of some kind that could be broken up and metabolized if given proper stimulation and circulation. but no such luck--they're still there.

so, again, not totally sure what happened to me--not quite what happened to Linda Evangelista, but. i still had an adverse affect, which is frightening.

the people at the med spa i went to, btw, refused to acknowledge this as an issue. they told me i must just "metabolize fat poorly." not their fault, evidently. and i was powerless to challenge them, because i had signed a lot of waivers.

so, here i am. CoolSculpt just gave me another in a long line of apparently permanent side effects, even though it was noninvasive.

i wish so much i had just... fucking stopped, honestly. i should've begun my fitness journey then, if i wanted "toned thighs" so much, instead of spending a ridiculous amount of money (that i didn't have, btw) on this completely unregulated procedure that remains wildly popular. it is 100% a scam.

at least with working out, i gained confidence and strength and stopped caring so much about how i look once i realized that how i feel is so much more important. having done both, i can firmly say that i would choose my strong, big, muscular thighs over the trim, slim CoolSculpted ones any day.

and to drive the point home, i do still have the lumps in my thighs.

CoolSculpt is a waste of time, money, and health.

please do encourage your friend to look up the side effects reported from CoolSculpt, and keep in mind that most women who get CoolSculpt do NOT follow back up with the med spas they received treatment at. so when you see "over 95% of patients reported satisfaction with their treatment," know that they are NOT returning the calls of those who received adverse effects.

as i do with all cosmetic procedures, both invasive and noninvasive, i believe the percentage of those who have been "botched" is way, way, way, WAY under-reported, underrepresented, and vastly, vastly underestimated.

technically, because my surgeons never returned my communication, and because i never participated in an official survey (usually provided by the place that gives you the surgery, lmfao), i would not be included in the data collected for "botched procedures."

so please, please keep that in mind. most of us who have received life-altering results from any manner of cosmetic procedures either A) are not being communicated with by the providers of the procedure afterward, or B) are not even thinking about communicating with the provider of the procedure because they are now at their doctor or a hospital, trying to find answers to what went wrong.

or simply C) are too embarrassed to come forward and admit that we were “botched.”

or even D) have accepted it in numb silence or deeply flat denial because it would be too painful or too much effort to acknowledge that we most certainly didn’t get the results we were promised.

like, trust me, no one is calling me or knocking at me door asking me if i’m happy with my surgeries or my noninvasive procedures. not a single one. as far as the world was concerned, until i spoke up this year, i was a happy customer. so idk WHERE the fuck they get all these surveyed patients from. but sure as hell, no one ever asked me.

my point is, i don't believe the data collected on procedure satisfaction is AT ALL trustworthy, let alone accurate.

if there's another procedure you have a question about, i'd be happy to answer it to the best of my ability.

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s4 episode 6 thoughts

today's adventure with our favorite agents didn't really do a lot for me but. at least it wasn't super sad? so let's go? i guess?

liveblog begins NOW!

this episode sounds like it is gonna make me squeamish. extremely so. and also i just read the rest of the episode descriptions for the season and i’m sad so i really hope this is SOMEHOW a happy one. hey, listen, it’s possible!

author’s note: sometimes i hate being right. sometimes i hate thinking, boy, this sure looks like it’s gonna make me feel lightheaded, and it does.

oh, how i look forward to diving into the fluff fic recommendations from my last post…. <3 

but we must suffer through canon, no?

we open with someone about to undergo some liposuction, a thing i have never wanted to see. the patient is being wheeled in and the doctor is being informed of what kind of appointment he has next. the doctor is really really scrubbing his hands to the point i thought he was shaking and OH! his hands are very bloody. oh. i do not think that is clean. 

oh god i’m in for a rough ride this episode aren’t i, i realize as we see him bleed through his gloves and begin the surgery. OHHHHH an incision. I AM NOT LOOKING I AM NOT LOOKING. i am looking a little OUGH is THAT what this procedure looks like from the doctor’s end??? oh my gosh. oh man. the… sucking…

deep breathing.

the nurse goes to see a different patient and explains she doesn’t know where the doctor is. the doctor is… currently REALLY going ham on the sucking. WHAAAA we see the blood fill up the tube and oh man i’m not joking like straight up being so honest w you i can feel my body growing faint. i actually did not look at the screen until the intro because that was too close for me. and yes i understand he was….um. going TOO hard.

oh mein gott… the things i do for these two agents….

save me intro. save me pretty picture of scully. and that scene where they burst in with the guns and flashlights. save me.

okay. i’ve regained most of my feeling in my head. now the doctor is here, very sorrowfully explaining how he was watching himself do those things without having any control over it.

ah, he is speaking to mulder, who suggests that it may be spirit or demon possession. 

so mulder and scully are here talking to the doctor, but the lawyer says he did NOT want mulder talking to him lmaooo. 

scully asks what meds he’s taking and the lawyer again shuts them down. rude as hell. she wants to know about his sleeping pills. let her doctor as needed tf

oh…. scully going straight into a detailed explanation of how his medication worked <3 i just love her… this is why i suffer through the fat sucking (which has now occurred multiple times??)

why is mulder eyeing this nurse. don’t think i didn’t notice that…

this doctor was taking more than a sleeping pill a day, and she says it has controversial effects, so maybe that could make a guy do such a thing. it’s a good start to a theory.

she seems mad as hell that this space is being used for cosmetic surgery and not as a hospital and i love that she has some righteous rage going on there… let her save some damn lives!! 

“everyone’s doing it… or so i’ve heard” <- the thought of mulder getting plastic surgery is so silly… like is he not already the most gorgeous fellow alive

mulder’s on the floor looking at some weird marks and drawing a pentagram in the victim’s blood. average behavior for a guy like him. not convincing to scully, however.

scary facts with scully: deaths due to doctor's errors are upwards of 80,000 a year! that’s horrific and for my own sanity i’m not going to google how those stats have changed 

“i don’t think it’s a simple possession, scully, i think it’s sorcery or black magic or something like that” (said with his hands on his hips in the standard mulder pose) love him so bad…. please recite to me the different levels of magic in order of complexity

they run into the nurse who was on call at the time the sucking incident went down, and she is like idk how it could happen… but when mulder tells her the doctor is claiming he was possessed, she says “i guess it’s cheaper than malpractice insurance” LMAO i like her… don’t tell me she was the one doing the sorcery or something, let us have one nice side character who makes it out alive 

(author's note: ...)

then the agents try to talk to a doctor, but she says the patient can’t wait, which sparks more scully bitterness. mulder is watching the surgery stream. weird fellow

cutscene to a table with a conspicuous pentagram on it. someone is saying they need to keep calm. it seems they are the doctors at the facilities?

okay, so another procedure is going on. the patient says she’s getting a skin peel but the nurse is putting LEECHES ON HER?? man what the hell is going on here. and it’s the nice nurse who is doing it too 😭😭😭

mulder is making faces in the mirror now, seeming to mull the possibility of getting rhinoplasty over LMAOOO but scully knocks at his door… it’s video time!! woohoo, pop that bad boy in the VHS player!!

aww, it’s not a fun time video. it’s the video of the killing, and mulder claims to see a pentagram. scully is gagged that the doctor stabbed/sucked the dude to death, but i’m choosing to focus here on her beautiful freckles…..

he’s saying that a pentagram is for protection, so it wouldn’t even make sense, BUT “it does make sense that witchcraft or black magic would find a theater in a place like this, preying on the weak and vainglorious” <- woah... he's a philosopher

get yourself a man who can explain the positive connotations of pentagrams and other nerd stuff with 100% sincerity

oh my god, mulder is sitting on the bed and looking up at scully here, and i need it FRAMED. do you know the scene i’m talking about? i’d give you the time stamp if i had it. the way he’s looking at her…. oh my goodness... my heart. 

the stomach pills the doctor was taking had an ingredient used in hexing rituals. live scully response: “well, if it’s that simple, why don’t you put out an APB for someone riding a broom and wearing a tall black hat?” <- LMAOOOO get his ass

he scrunches up his nose at this comment and oh my gosh. oh… i want to hold this grown man.

BUT he is saying the ritual might not be over yet, while he stares up at her so adoringly, and man… i’m so sensitive 

okay back to the hospital, where this shady coalition of doctors seems to be debriefing. the nurse is there, who i am now suspicious of for engaging in leech-related activities. 

oh! one of the other doctors went into a patient’s room and started burning their face with a laser. luckily, this is visually unrealistic enough for me to not nearly faint this time.

so this doctor who did the face lasering- dr. ilaqua- is now being seen by scully. and he is on the same sleeping medication as the first guy!!!

back at a computer, mulder is looking at before and after rhinoplasty pictures. NO... i love his nose… he had BEST NOT DO A DAMN THING to it. and he’s holding a pencil up to test how straight his nose is and MY MAN. STOP. you are beautiful. who told you otherwise. i love his nose.........

oh! the leeches were used to make a pentagram on the victim’s body. this is not a good sign.

this creepy panel of doctors is meeting again when the agents arrive and do not give a fuck about their meeting. yes!! more agents walking into places without knocking!!! it is my favorite! it sustains me!

scully says she’s sorry to barge in but it’s a matter of urgency whilst not looking sorry in the slightest. which suits her!

and one of the doctors- dr. franklyn- is explaining that there were similar deaths 10 years ago… and they’re pinning the blame on the nurse!!! saying she was there 10 years ago and just transferred back in!!!

i do not believe it in the slightest that if she IS involved in this, she is doing it on her own. but the doctor says she left early. where to?

well, the camera takes us to go do some creepy chanting, of course! in a room filled with candles and statues and jewelry. and she’s naked i think too which is a risk around so many open flames. okay and now some hair is being cut. but it’s not the nurse who is doing the chanting nor the trimming. whoever it is seems to be falling asleep. 

the agents are here, and it is dark, and they are not messing around. they are going to this creepy house. with a cat meowing and a broom on the steps! i see what you did there.

mulder jokes that the broom gives them probable cause LMAO and then he starts to open the door as if it actually does… only to find a pentagram!!! dun dun DUUUUN!

it’s kicking the door down time, a good time in my opinion. where they hold the flashlight in one hand and the gun in the other… yeah. always a showy move. never gets old.

oh no!! scully finds the ritual space!! what could she have been doing in here?, she asks... girl i think you know damn well lmao

dr. franklyn from the council is coming home to his mansion… and his lights won’t turn on. that’s suspicious. that’s weird. 

it’s very very quiet as he goes into his bathroom… AND FINDS SOMETHING WRITTEN ON BLOOD IN THE WALL!!

it looks like latin which i sadly cannot read :(

well, it could be blood OR lipstick, all things considered

and the tub is flowing with blood which is not a welcome sight. as he stares at his reflection like narcissus, something LEAPS out and GETS HIM!! so now there is a very bloody person loose in his house!!

he goes to call 911 but gets put on hold… as this person is going to TOWN on him with a knife. 

the agents roll up and we see that it is the NURSE who is covered in the blood and just did the stabbing!!!! she says she needs to be let go, but i’m not gonna lie, i think that would be a very bad idea. mulder wants to chat. she’s saying she’s trying to stop “them”, but they’re too powerful… and then she… chokes up needles?? oh. and blood. 

scully says get her in surgery NOW and also i’m going with her to the ER. while mulder looks at all the pins on the ground from her insides and then PICKS ONE UP???? the germs…..

so dr. franklyn got away and is being stitched up by one of the other doctors. they are not seeming to be enjoying the witchcraft theory. mulder watches dr. franklyn lay down in his bed and then when he leaves he starts to levitate!!!! what!!! and he’s smiling while doing this!!!

who are these weirdos…

it’s 3:40 AM and mulder has his demon books out, but really he’s looking at himself again in the mirror. bro is insecure and it’s making me sad. 

a knock at the door. scully!! at nearly 4 am. “god, you look tired”, says mulder, in a way that expresses concern rather than being mean. and she actually doesn’t look tired at all because it’s TV, but i’ll suspend my disbelief again. 

anyway, the nurse died from throwing up hundreds of pins. but how did they get IN there…

it has to be allotriophagy, says mulder, consulting his witchcraft encyclopedia! when you’re possessed and cough up strange and horrible things! which i shall use as an excuse next time i need to call in sick to work.

he stole the book from the nurse’s house, and also a calendar, where he found april 30th starred. and he explains it is one of the “four greater witches’ Sabbaths”, a natural thing for an FBI agent to know! /s

oh get this… the high holy days correspond to the birthdays of the victims!!! so that would be a good way to predict who is next.. but mulder says the nurse was trying to protect them with the pentagram, and she must have known something about dr. franklyn!!

so the doctors are talking about having a good thing going and people trying to take it away… i guess they're all in on this?

dr. franklyn has another procedure coming up, but the other doctor is like no dude you look terrible and you can’t mess this up, we'll get shut down, i’m doing it 

and gasp!! there is a patient going in that was born on one of the holy days!!! and that patient is going into surgery right now!

OH MY GOSH HE BURNED HER FACE OFF. THERE IS NO FACE LEFT. WHAT. WHAT DID I JUST SEE. 

so now they’re talking to another doctor, dr. shannon. they’re talking about how they successfully covered up the death cases from 10 years ago because they have made a TON of money doing plastic surgery. she says 4 patients died and a doctor named dr. cox worked himself to death. hmm...

mulder says to run dr. cox's photo through a cosmetic program… and it makes dr. franklyn… woah… spoooooky……

now we hear some labored scraping as dr. franklyn is doing knife twisting. carving… something. very sweatily. gross.

mulder’s theory is that dr. cox killed those patients in order to become dr. franklyn through some blood sacrifice to make himself pretty. i mean... did it work? let’s discuss. he looks fine, but not "i killed four people to look this good" fine.

now he’s getting some more tools… and he’s hurting the other doctor, dr. shannon!! with his mind! he didn’t even touch her!

mulder is at dr. franklyn's house with scully and they have their guns. god they’re beautiful. and she’s standing on a pentagram!! that has been inverted!!! 

“they represent the goat of lust attacking heaven with its horns”, he says about the pentagram <- he’s SUCH a nerddddd omfggg

and he wrote in all the names of the patients he killed in his carving!! including dr. shannon!!! uh oh...

and they’re bringing dr. shannon in for surgery, saying she swallowed something.

dr. franklyn is…. cutting into his scalp. i am not looking so don’t worry. 

mulder says do not let them operate on dr. shannon!!!!

oh my goodness, franklyn is just. cutting into his face. and i’m not looking but i am HEARING. the noises that are being produced.

they’re cutting into shannon and bleh. blehhh.

scully bursts in and says stop the surgery NOW!! and they’re all, who tf are you, get out of here!!! but she says i am a DOCTOR you need to LISTEN TO ME!! i love when she does that!

mulder is on the prowl for dr. franklyn. and he sees that he made a pentagram in blood. OH MY GOD HE CUT HIS OWN FACE OFF?? and left it there like a snake shedding it’s skin 😭😭

they pulled a ton of surgical instruments out of dr. shannon… so mulder says franklyn must have failed to complete his ritual….

but he managed to kill some other person who was born on halloween…. okay, that wasn’t a happy ending….

OH! dr. franklyn has a NEW FACE and is now getting a job in LA!

so… he’s just gonna… keep doing successful surgeries for 10 years and then take a little break to go on a killing spree, get a new face, and dip?

well. at least he sticks to a schedule?

um. okay. so what am i thinking here….

well, i did nearly faint many times. i am not looking forward to editing my notes and reliving that. i do not think this is an episode i would give a rewatch based on how i reacted to it.

but, the last few episodes have been super dark, and this one somehow felt… lighter? despite everything. we got some jokes in there and some silly time. and even if it ended on a “oh no, he’s still out there!” reveal, it was somehow less emotionally draining than the last few. 

was it ridiculous? yes. but was it also kind of refreshing after the last two episodes? also yes! which i think is a testament to how dark things have been rather than the quality of this episode. 

it was fine. it didn’t really do a whole lot for me. i mean, interesting to think of plastic surgery as devil worship, i guess, but potentially a reductive take. idk. i guess i don’t really spend a lot of time thinking about these things. 

things i DID like in this episode: that conversation mulder had with scully, where he was sitting on the bed looking up at her like he was going to ask for her hand in marriage or to be best friends forever and ever or talk about the meaning of being alive or some similar topic. it was so terribly tender. also, facts with scully! tell me about controversial drugs!! and mulder, tell me about the symbolism of a pentagram! i love these nerds! that was kind of it, though.

it was an episode. an episode with some good things and some meh things. that’s sort of par for the course. just… next time, less surgery. please. for me?

[joyfullovepaper]

Exploring the Latest Liposuction Techniques in Beverly Hills

Introduction

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Exploring the Latest Liposuction Techniques in Beverly Hills

Liposuction is no longer just about suctioning out fat; it has transformed into an art form that combines technology with surgical expertise. In Beverly Hills, some of the most innovative liposuction techniques are being employed to meet diverse patient needs.

Understanding Traditional Liposuction

Traditional liposuction involves making small incisions in targeted areas and using a cannula to extract fat deposits. While effective, this method often requires longer recovery times and may leave noticeable scars.

Benefits of Traditional Liposuction Proven track record: Over decades of use. Targeted fat removal: Ideal for specific body areas. Immediate results: Patients see changes right after surgery. The Evolution: Tumescent Liposuction

Tumescent liposuction is a significant advancement over traditional methods. It involves injecting a saline solution into the treatment area before fat removal.

Advantages of Tumescent Liposuction Reduced pain: The saline solution contains anesthetic properties. Less blood loss: The solution constricts blood vessels. Faster recovery: Patients typically return to daily activities sooner. Laser-Assisted Liposuction (SmartLipo)

Laser-assisted liposuction employs laser energy to liquefy fat before extraction. This technique minimizes trauma to surrounding tissues.

Key Features of SmartLipo Minimally invasive: Smaller incisions lead to less scarring. Skin tightening: Laser energy stimulates collagen production. Quick recovery time: Many patients resume normal activities within days. Ultrasound-Assisted Liposuction (VASER)

VASER uses ultrasound technology to break down fat cells without damaging surrounding tissues. This technique is particularly effective for larger volumes of fat removal.

Benefits of VASER Liposuction Precision targeting: Focuses on specific areas while preserving nerves and blood vessels. Enhanced skin tightening: Promotes tighter skin post-surgery. Versatile application: Suitable for both large and small treatment areas. Power-Assisted Liposuction (PAL)

Power-assisted liposuction employs a vibrating cannula that enhances the surgeon’s ability to remove fat more efficiently.

Why Choose PAL? Reduced fatigue for surgeons: Allows prolonged precision during procedures. Enhanced patient comfort:

[okay-sky]

whoa how cool that you’ve had phallo!!! is that something you’d be more open to talking about on here, for other curious transmascs? no pressure!

hello hello! yes i had phallo last may (may 2023) and my husband had phallo in november (november 2023), and i would be plenty happy to talk about it here! feel free to send me asks (or a dm if you want to get more personal questions answered) and i will answer them to the best of my ability and comfort level :3 i will share the broad strokes of my husband's experience too, but not the more personal details, just for comparison's sake.

details about the general overture of my phallo operation and experience below the cut. there is some semi-graphic discussion of surgery and genitalia just as a warning.

we both had delayed ALT (anterolateral thigh) phalloplasty with dr crane in austin TX, so we used a skin graft from our thigh instead of forearm for it. delayed ALT allowed us to get ALT despite having a good deal of fat on our thighs, and it was a relatively new technique our surgeon was offering when we first had our consultations but now it's his preferred way to do ALT.

with delayed ALT, they basically did one operation before starting any of the actual bottom surgery stuff where they cut out 3 of the 4 sides of the graft, and completely separated the full thickness of the graft from the muscle underneath. the flap was only tethered to our body still by the side at the top (up by our groin), the 2 vertical sides and lowest side (right above the knee) were fully severed. then they laid that baby back down and stitched the edges back on. they also performed liposuction to remove a lot of the excess fat from the flap, so until it was relocated to my groin, i had a large dip in my thigh where there was just less fat than before. after that operation was done, i had to wait 6 months before i could have Actual phallo, which gave the flap time to slowly grow its own blood supply without being disconnected entirely from my body. when it finally did get moved to my groin in my 2nd surgery, the blood supply was so well-developed that it pulsed visibly with my heartbeat! the chance of tissue death due to poor blood flow is vastly reduced this way, so it's a win-win: allows heavier guys to get ALT, and improves the odds that your new dick will heal without tissue death.

another thing that was pretty unique about our surgery (not like, "we were the only ones that did this" but more like "a lot of surgeons won't do this bc they aren't comfortable with it, and a lot of guys that are eligible don't do it anyways for personal reasons") is that we had urethral lengthening (which connects our original, natal urethra to the new neo-urethra inside the penis so that we can pee standing up) without a vaginectomy (which is the removal of the vagina). so i basically have a full dick and balls, plus my original hole hiding in the back. this is partly why i had such shit healing issues. unbeknownst to me at the time, i have ehlers-danlos syndrome, which is a connective tissue disorder that means i don't heal very well from injuries and especially from tears in my skin. by the time my sutures had dissolved, my body still hadn't even partly closed up my incisions, so i had a lot of just open wounds that should have already been healed if my body wasn't healing so slowly due to EDS. my husband, meanwhile, had the exact same operations as i did, but does not have healing issues and had no complications at all. lucky bastard. the chance of the connection between new urethra and natal urethra not healing right on the first go-around is higher if you do not have a vaginectomy, since the natal urethra is so close to the edge of the vaginal opening. they also like to use the tissue of the labia minora to help strengthen the urethral connection, which is obviously not an option if you still have your labia minora and vag.

i still haven't had glansplasty, but i'm planning to have that sometime next year when any lingering swelling has gone down and my dick has settled into the shape and flaccidity that i can expect to have forever. neither of us currently has any intentions to get an internal erectile device either, just because they do add future maintenance like replacements and the possibility of pump failure (not to mention my body would probably freak the fuck out if i tried to have another major surgery lol)

i have talked a bit more extensively about my phallo journey on reddit, the phallo community at r/phallo is an ENORMOUSLY helpful resource and are all-around just a bunch of great guys. you can find photos of post-op guys, some of which are many years post-op, and some guys even post videos of the pump inflating and deflating, urination, the movement of their dick, etc. if this is something you are interested in pursuing and want to get a better idea of what a phallo dick ACTUALLY looks like (without the terf-y fear mongering that you usually see around phallo), i would highly recommend checking out r/phallo and sorting by top of all time. usually pics and vids of fully healed dicks get the most upvotes so they float to the top.

again feel free to ask me any specific questions you might have, or dm me!

[lonelystotch19]

The Ultimate Linda Essay

Hey y'all, welcome to my blog. Today, I will provide a needlessly long essay on why the South Park character Butters Stotch's mom, Linda is peak.

I'm so fixated on Linda, shes such a fun character. I've been noticing a lack of Linda, in terms of fan art, love, appreciation, discussion, and so fourth. This is kind of a problem that the Stotches, scratch that, the parents, scratch that, the adults as a whole have, but Linda gets the worst of it.

I will probably discuss why I think the South Park moms are so underrated, but for now, in this tiny compartment, I will deliever an entire blog describing who Linda is, why she is so peak, and why she is overlooked.

Linda Stotch makes her first appearance in the Season four episode, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure", as a background character. She reappears a few more times as an incidental character, until the Season 5 episode, “Super Best Friends”, where she is named “Carol”. Fun Fact, Carol was also the original names of Sharon and Sheila. She first shows off strict behavior later in the season in “How to Eat With Your Butt”, where she grounds Butters for making a silly face.

Linda has her first major role in “Butters’ Very Own Episode”, where she is established as a seemingly happy-go-lucky mother at first, but then becomes mentally unstable and suicidal. This episode marks her most impactful role, where, in a fit of a mental disruption, she nearly drowned Butters in a car after finding out Stephen (originally Chris) was cheating on her with other men. She then almost tried to take her own life. Luckily, Stephen stops her and Butters survived, and the event was seemingly forgotten about after it was resolved. In the Season 6 episode, “Jared Has Aids”, they ground Butters yet again for having liposuction surgery at their house. When Cartman fills for Butters and impersonates him while on the phone with Butters’ parents, he swears at them, making them even more angry. Butters’ parents then beat up their son. In "Asspen", they show a more laid back side, taking Butters to Aspen with the other families. They continued to have a few more appearances in Season 6. In “My Future Self ‘n Me”, Linda and Stephen apologize to Butters for the first time after deceiving him. This marks a significant development for the Stotches; one thing you WILL know about the Stotches is that people HATE them. While it is justifable in multiple cases, it is also hypocritical and tone-deaf in others.  As you see here, this is a genuine sign of regret for the Stotches, showing that they CAN feel remorse for their actions. Meanwhile, Gerald (aka Skank Hunt and also a greedy, hypocritical, snobbish motherfucker), Randy (who is sometimes worse than Stephen), and the McCormicks (who just suck completely) get off scot-free. This fandom man.

In the eight episode of Season 7, Linda is apart of the moms who, at first, welcomed the new metrosexual fad, but when their husbands became “whiny little wusses”, they start revolting. This episode marks the first instance Linda was a prominent character without Stephen or Butters. In “Raisins”, she gets a bit more screen time than usual. In particular, she objects to Raisins and tries to convince a girl to do something better with her life with a powerful speech. This is a rare instance where Linda on her own has wisdom. In Season 8, Linda and Stephen are major characters yet again; Linda and Stephen make a deal with Paris Hilton, selling Butters to her for $250 million. In this episode, you can see that Linda is a bit of the more sympathetic and reasonable half, as she objects to Stephen’s decision to sell Butters at first. In the second episode of Season 9, Linda is an engineer for Cartman's drill crew. This marks her second major role without Stephen and reveals a bit about her character. In “The Death of Eric Cartman”, she and Stephen play another major role, where they worry about Butters' state of mind and has him sent to the South Park Institute for Mental Health. However, their most infamous role in this season was “Marjorine”, where Butters fakes his death, causing them to harshly mourn his death, especially Linda.

In Season 11, “Night of the Living Homeless”, Linda has yet another dominant supporting role, where she and Stephen are trapped on the roof of the building with all the other townspeople hiding from the homeless people. In Season 12, Linda gets a bit of spotlight, where she is frightened by Mr. Garrison’s “Penis”. She gets decent supporting roles in “Pandemic” and “About Last Night”, but gets yet another major role in “The Ungroundable”, where Butters becomes a vampire, making him "ungroundable", making Linda very worried for him. Season 14 had this brief stint where Linda was the butt of a joke, revealing that’s she either a gossiper or has yellow teeth. In “Season 15”, Linda gets yet another major role, where she and her husband take Butters to therapy because he they believed they had Multiple Personality Disorder. This is probably the first instance in a long while where they are shown to be entirely stupid. In "You're Getting Old", she attends Stan's birthday party at Whistlin' Willy's, marking an instance where she shows up prominently without Stephen. In Season 16, “Going Native” reveals that the Stotches are Hawaiian. They get a few more prominent roles in Season 17. Starting with Season 19, specifically “The City Part of Town”, Linda is commonly seen as a member of the City Council.

As Randy becomes effectively the main character in Season 21, Linda gets featured more often. In “Franchise Prequel” is a good example, and so are Season 22’s “Dead Kids” and “The Scoots”. In Season 22, Stephen is the main character of a two-parter, and thus, Linda is featured heavily. This continues in Season 23, especially as Linda is a major character in “Turd Burglars”, another storyline about the moms, where she tries to get her hands on Sheila's poop in order to have a fecal transplant. This episode reveals that she is a bit of a bitch, her gossiping side is shown, she is a backstabber, and she will do anything to get her way. Keep note of this. She is also a prominent side character in “Shots”, “Basic Cable”, and “Christmas Snow”. After another appearance in the Pandemic era, she goes back to being a prominent supporting character in Season 25, and she and Stephen even hve another major role in “Back To The Cold War”. Linda Stotch gets yet another crucial role in “South Park: The End of Obesity”, which is another storyline about the mothers of South Park. As with “Turd Burglars”, a new means of becoming more fit has swept the town of South Park, and the envious mothers want in on it.  Linda shows a similar personality to in Turd Burglars; she gets with the crowd, sorta like her own son. Linda takes Ozempic with no hesitation. She flexes her newfound body, never missing a chance to strike a pose. She gets addicted to the drug, and like with TB, will do anything to satisfy her fix. She is willing to do crime, such as rob a bank or beat up a truck driver.

We know barely anything about Linda Stotch; we are given backstories for all of the other parents. They go as follows:

Liane came from a family of Cartmans; in other words, they behave exactly like how Eric Cartman does. She was also a crackwhore and had been in multiple magazines. Lastly, “Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut” provides an origin story for her. She is also hinted to have a Freudian Excuse in “Tsst”, where she was implied to have no friends and depends on Cartman to fill in that void.

Sheila Broflovski has a grandmother, a sister, and a nephew. In "It's a Jersey Thing", Sheila reveals that her family lived in Newark, New Jersey, that Gerald impregnated her with Kyle there, and that they moved to South Park two months later.

Gerald Broflovski has an already established background in “Chickenpox”, where Stuart McCormick claims that Gerald was sent through school by "rich parents," though the fact that Gerald had to work at a pizza place with Stuart and attend community college indicates that this is probably not true and is just a reflection of Stuart's jealousy, which is a plot point in the episode. Gerald grew up in South Park, where nobody in town is ever depicted as having more than a middle-class lifestyle other than the Black family, lending more credence to the idea that Gerald earned his own way through college. Gerald also has a brother.

Sharon had a slew of revelations about her prior life. It is revealed in "Die Hippie, Die", that Randy and his wife, Sharon, used to be Hippies, and they met at Woodstock in 1969. Randy and Sharon were revealed to have met in a tree-fort playing Truth or Dare, in "Clubhouses". We see what appears to be a younger Sharon Marsh in “Something You Can Do with Your Finger”. She also appears in a flashback in “Stanley’s Cup” with longer hair.

Randy goes without saying. We basically summarized his origins in Sharon’s section, but there’s way more to discuss. He is effectively at main character status, so there’s basically no need to go over his origins.

Stuart and Carol are relatively deep for undeveloped side characters. In "Chickenpox", it is revealed Kenny’s house was made by Stuart and Gerald Broflovski when they were young. The same episode also revealed they had a falling out. In the episode "Mysterion Rises" it is revealed that Stuart and Carol had been part of a cult worshipping Cthulhu ten years before the series' began. This is precisely why Kenny is immortal.

Stephen Stotch is rather complicated. In "Butters' Very Own Episode", Stephen is revealed to be bi-curious, in that he likes women, but he is seen going to a gay men's bathhouse to perform homosexual activities. During "The Thin White Line" mission in South Park: The Fractured But Whole, as the player approaches a drunk Stephen, he has flashbacks to his mother grounding him and pleads with his mother not ground him in a distressed tone. Based on this it can be inferred that Stephen had a nearly identical relationship with his mother as he has with his son, and his overbearing demeanor is a result of his past. However, in "Butterballs", he seems composed when his mother visits South Park and is oblivious towards her abusive attitude towards Butters. Either Stephen and his mother improved their relationship, or he is aware of her true colors and stays silent out of fear. Stephen and Linda are also revealed to be from Hawaii.

Linda Stotch barely has an origin story. She is from Hawaii, she has a cousin and nieces, and that is the most we ever get from her. Grandma Stotch could be her mother, but given the above, its more likely that she is Stephen’s. However, Nellie has to be Linda’s sister, as they have blonde hair and the same facial structure.

A problem with Linda being underdeveloped is her lack of episodes about her. This is not consistent with other parental figures in SP. Randy and Gerald have multiple. Sharon also gets multiple, including “Spookyfish”, “Crème Fraiche”, and “Dead Kids”. Sheila was a particularly key character in early seasons, and takes center stage in the Movie. Even in later episodes, she is occasionally a main focus, such as “It’s a Jersey Thing” or “Turd Burglars”. Liane has a few in later seasons, such as “Shots!” or “City People”. Even Carol and Stuart had a few, including the aforementioned “Chickenpox” or “Cartman Joins NAMBLA”. Stephen has a few himself, including Season 22’s two parter, “Unfulfilled” and “Bike Parade”, “The Magic Bush”, and multiple storylines involving Randy such as “Sons a Witches”. Even Tweek and Craig’s parents are favoured, as seen in “The Magic Bush”, “Underpants Gnomes”, or “Tweek x Craig”.  However, Linda was only ever the main character in “Butters’ Very Own Episode”. Otherwise, she is regulated to storylines involving Butters and/or Stephen Stotch, the moms, or Randy.

Linda Stotch’s important roles include:

Butters’ Very Own Episode

Aspen

South Park is Gay

Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset

Night of the Living Homeless

Die Hippie, Die

Turd Burglars

Back at the Cold War

The End of Obesity

If Linda is important, then Butters, Randy, Stephen, the other adults, or moms are important as well. Linda is more of a fragment of the Stotch family than her own character. Compare that to her husband and son. Butters is a major character while Stephen seems to be a fleshed out figure who makes regular prominent appearances on his own. Linda, meanwhile, will become a main focus if the episode is about the Stotch family, the mothers of South Park, or Randy’s friend group.

However, as a character, Linda has potential. She is particularly known for her insanity. “Butters’ Very Own Episode” and “Marjorine” explore this aspect of her character the most. If she hears tragic news, she will snap. In the former episode, she enters a state of psychosis, where she repeatedly paints the walls of her own home. Later in the episode, she gets the idea of drowning her own son just for him to “not be raised by a sick pervert”. She then attempts to off herself as well. These moments are recipes for interesting stories, proving that she is quite possibly the most unstable character behind Cartman and Mr. Garrison. Linda is also revealed to be an engineer in “Die Hippe, Die”, meaning she is quite smart in some areas. What if she’s an inventor even? I feel like South Park lacks that sort of archetype. We have Dr. Alphonse Mephesto, who is just a mad science that makes genetic creatures rather any inventing machines. Randy is a geologist, but not necessarily an inventor. Linda could easily fill in this role. It’d be rather jarring, since she is otherwise just a housewife, but it would be pretty cool. In a few episodes, Linda is shown to be violent. In her first episode alone, she tried to drown Butters. Later, she has used bats to kill people, robbed a bank, beaten up a truck driver, and so fourth. She is rather cool, compared to her wimpy husband Stephen, who seems to be dumb, traumatized, flamboyant, and child-like.

However, all in all, Linda seems to be a trend-follower. This aspect is quite similar to Clyde, Bebe, or Craig’s personality, as well as Randy and Gerald’s. While the early seasons has her as firmly Stephen’s wife, Butters’ mom, and close friends of the other parents, later episodes seem to experiment with Linda more as the moms become more prominent. Be it fecal transplants or obesity drugs, Linda will be quick to get a hold of a fad.

The other problem with Linda is her relative unpopularity. This might be a problem both Stotches have, but from experience, Linda seems to get the short end of the stick.  South Park adults are generally underrated compared to the children, with Randy and Liane being exceptions. But in the rather compacted “Adult fandom”, Linda is the underdog it seems. Behind Liane, Sharon probably has the most fans, being a relative of Stan and Randy, who get way more spotlight. There’s like, evilstrawberry, dustycresent, and you get the rest, even the more... interesting art. Sheila gets less love, but she originally had Randy’s role, and is ingrained into South Park due to the “Kyle’s mom a bitch song”. People love her, and they will proudly draw her in either wholesome or rather “unusual” art. Carol gets less art due to her lesser role, but somehow I found more content about her, likely due to people (including me, lol) finding a boisterous redhead redneck hot and Kenny’s own integral role to the show. I found a lot of Laura Tucker and Mrs. Tweek fans, due to them being the parents of the most popular side characters + having more conventionally attractive designs. Even Sarah somehow got a bit popular in 2023. As for the dads, Gerald is beloved for a slew of reasons and so is Stuart. Stephen Stotch is where it gets interesting, because I’ve met thousands of people who are obsessed with him. It feels like a cult of sorts. It’s kind of like how I’m in this niche but very clearly existent community of Pop fans. Of course, I’m also in this Stotchbase and im even close friends with some of ‘em. This part is where Linda gets somewhat lucky, since these fans seem to love the Stotch family as a whole. Still, she often winds up as the underdog or background character. Speaking of Stephen, even when the opposite happens, where people hate him, they’d rather direct their ire towards just Stephen than Linda. I swear, ppl tend to make hate art towards just Stephen, which is kind of funny. Linda gets in on the action every so often, but Stephen is mostly the one taking the hits. However, I HAVE met Linda Stotch fans, but for some, undiscernible reason, they disappear unlike the other characters’ fans. In 2023, I discovered two Linda Stotch fans from TikTok who fell off the face of the earth. Otherwise, most Linda Stotch fanart is either probably made by me or is requested by me. It’s rare, and I mean RARE to come across an amazing piece of Linda Stotch fanart made by a casual South Park fan.

Overall, Linda Stotch is just underrated. Being a house mom who just goes along what others say really limits her character. If anything, she is treated more like a plot device than an actual character. That being said, Linda has an important role in the show. She had a big role in Butters’ first spotlight episode. She also takes center stage when the moms are involved. She is quite an iconic regular who deserves more love. We need more Linda Stotch fans. We need her to be in a crucial role again. We need to learn about her. Give us something that reveals an interesting detail about her character or past. Give her an opportunity to expand as a character. Liane has a real character arc going on, Sharon has multiple chances at center stage, Sheila is a major character, Carol and Stuart have sporadic development, Stephen has his own storylines, including an arc in Season 22, Gerald is hogging the spotlight almost as much as Randy, Tolkien’s dad has become a major character as of late, Strong Woman had a long story arc, and so on. Linda is like the one female adult character who doesn’t get a sudden burst of development. Again, we have Butters’ Very Own Episode and Die Hippe, Die, but I feel like even Stuart and Carol were dwelled into more, with Stuart’s backstory and Carol’s birthing process with Kenny. Carol actually has less to do nowadays too, but I’ll probably get to her some day. At least she is generally treated more like an actual character than just a prop. Linda also deserves more fans. Again, as underrated the South Park moms are, they at least have fans, fanart, memes, key roles in the show, and so fourth. Linda is a mere extension of Butters and Stephen according to the fanbase. If she receives more fan art, that would be a dream come true. Especially more of the “unusual kind”. Linda is a major character in South Park who has untapped potential, is deserving of more fans and fan art, and is a key element of the show.

Thank you for reading this VERY lengthy document. I have such a big fix on this character, and I’m just so tired of people ignoring her. I am quite literally the only active Linda Stotch fan; compare that to the multiple people who are simping over and/or drawing art of Sharon, Sheila, Liane, Laura, Mrs. Tweek, and even Carol McCormick. Linda is far from my only hyper fixation, but in comparison to her husband Stephen or even a character from another show im obsessed with like Pop from HTF, Linda is definitely underrated and I feel STARVED, Part of me blames that on how underrated the South Parks moms are in general, but more on that later. Peace.                       

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"My name is Prisha Mosley. I was a 15 year old girl when the trans community found me.

Already diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses including anorexia, a body dysmorphic disorder, and borderline personality disorder, a trauma disorder, I was easy to manipulate and convince that I had been born in the wrong body.

I was told that this was the reason for all of my mental and emotional distress. I was told that changing my gender would cure me. As an impressionable and mentally ill child, I fully believed this.

I also believed that my sexual assault, which happened at age 14, only happened to girls. I wanted to transition to be safe, and I was allowed to make permanent changes to my health due to these beliefs.

Beginning at 17, high doses of testosterone were injected into my anorexic body. This was done by a pediatrician in the same hospital where I was seeing a nutritionist for my severe malnutrition, and regularly receiving stitches for cutting and other self-harming behavior.

What I don't understand is why they never offered me counselling to help me with the depression, the trauma, the personality disorder, or my ongoing self-harm. It was clear that they were solely focused on pushing me into transition without regard for all of the other clear challenges and issues I was experiencing.

Testosterone had extreme side effects, more and more of which I am discovering every day. I suffered hair growth all over my body and hair loss on my head. My shoulders rapidly broadened beyond my frame causing me to be disproportionate, clumsy and in pain. My neck, back and shoulders constantly burn, and all of my joints ache all of the time.

Testosterone also caused changes in my vocal cords and throat. I can no longer sing or really raise my voice, and speaking for long periods of time causes me pain.

My endocrine system is ruined and I'm no longer able to regulate my own hormones. I have no choice but to be medicated for this for the rest of my life.

One of the worst side effects has been vaginal atrophy. This is the shrinking and thinning of the vagina. It is so severe that I am no longer able to use tampons because it is so small, and I'm afraid that I will tear. This has happened before.

One year after starting wrong-sex hormones, despite persistent self-harm, my healthy breasts were removed. I was told I would have sensation in my chest within one year. Instead, my chest is numb, except for the occasional zapping pain. I almost lost my nipples; after being grafted, pieces of them stuck to my bandage and fell off, and I no longer have them.

During the time in which I was receiving gender affirming care, my psychiatrists and psychologists had to ask me at the beginning of each appointment what my name was, who the president was, and what year it was, because I was so far from reality.

They told me no to liposuction and yes to a radical double mastectomy. I was too unhealthy to consent to lipo, but not to top surgery.

I was convinced that my puberty was a disease, and I trusted my doctors and the trans community when they told me they had the cure. But it wasn't true.

I stand now before you in an aching body which is no longer mine. I don't recognize myself when I look in the mirror. I am suffering from severe medical issues with which no doctors will help me, and insurance covers nothing. The medical professionals who did this to me have abandoned me, and the trans community has abandoned me. My doctors assisted me in mutilating myself, and then left me in the cold when I wanted the harm to stop.

But when I see young girls in my situation, young girls who have experienced sexual trauma, who are suffering from mental illness, and who suffer from body dysmorphia disorders, or who feel pressured by social media or their peers to conform to certain stereotypes of femininity, my heart breaks for them.

And while the damage done to my body can never be fully reversed, I can be an advocate for those girls in the same position I was.

Thank you."

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Beginning at 17, high doses of testosterone were injected into my anorexic body. This was done by a pediatrician in the same hospital where I was seeing a nutritionist for my severe malnutrition, and regularly receiving stitches for cutting and other self-harming behavior.

Are you shitting me? She's busy racking up frequent flyer miles in multiple departments in the same hospital, and nobody noticed or cared. One department is stitching her up, while another one is cutting her up.

Asleep at the wheel.

my psychiatrists and psychologists had to ask me at the beginning of each appointment what my name was, who the president was, and what year it was, because I was so far from reality.

She couldn't be presumed to know what year it was, but she was presumed to be able to consent to irreversible life-long medicalization.

Sure, that makes sense.

While I normally wholesale reject the ideas of the bible, in this case I think there really needs to be a Day of Reckoning for all of this.