I will be discharged from the hospital this weekend ๐
The scrotum and phallus skin is removed and used as a skin graft and it becomes the lining of the neovagina. You don't want hair in your neovagina. Besides the obvious discomfort with that, there have been cases where hair in the neovagina leads to infections.
Usually surgeons now will cauterize the follicles they find on the skin graft, but that only addresses the hairs growing in that cycle - you need to have removed the hairs over many cycles so new ones don't come in after the surgery. That's why it's best to have cleared all the hair with electrolysis across several cycles - ideally over an entire year (even longer than that would be better because the following year you can kill any that were missed the first year).
it is interesting how JK Rowling hasn't had the same boycott pressure than Elon Musk and Tesla, I think trans rights are just not as motivating to most people, unfortunately
someone needs to write an enthography of 4chan
incredible ๐
had to double-check the community name, never expected greentext in a wholesome community ๐
I went through all of this too, and transition is weird in that it simultaneously decreased and increased my dysphoria.
When I first transitioned I wasn't bothered by my deadname at all, but after a few months it really started to bother me and I even started to feel weird that I had ever been called that. It's like the way I thought about the name had been rationalized and seen as "genderless" and just "me", and only once I started going by a different chosen name did I have the space to see my deadname more objectively - the way it is gendered and used in a gendered way, and how poorly that fit "me".
Also, yeah, I paid little attention to my voice before I transitioned and once I transitioned and started paying attention to my voice for practical reasons like wanting to pass for safety, I suddenly realized how horrible my voice sounds and how it isn't "my" voice, etc.
On the other hand, there were also lots of moments of gender euphoria happening - dressing the way I've always wanted in public, and integrating as a woman socially was like a dream come true, a dream I had buried and suffocated and tried to kill but which somehow miraculously came to life anyway.
From what I've read these are common experiences - I know it seems weird for dysphoria to suddenly appear, but I think as coping strategies like denial and repression melt away, there is some instability as you pay more attention to your body and details that before you successfully ignored.
This is a challenging part of transitioning, but all I can say is that repression really is worse than transitioning and that it does (slowly) get easier. Also, the mental health improvements and joy that come from transitioning are a lot more than I ever could have expected.
whoa
but we can be successful collectively ;)
that's the spirit!
thank you
this is so upsetting
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29789039
Theresa Garnett (1888 - 1966)
Thu May 17, 1888
Theresa Garnett, born on this day in 1888, was a militant British suffragette whose acts of feminist rebellion included assaulting Winston Churchill with a whip, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!"
Garnett was born in Leeds on May 17th, 1888. In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) after being inspired by a speech given by the feminist and later co-founder of the Australian Communist Party Adela Pankhurst.
The WSPU fought for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and was noted for its use of direct action. Its members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to post boxes, committed night-time arson of unoccupied houses and churches, and, when imprisoned, went on hunger strike and endured physically traumatizing force-feeding.
Garnett participated in several of these actions as a young adult, chaining herself in 1909, along with four other activists, to a statue in Parliament in protest of a law meant to prohibit disorderly conduct while Parliament was in session.
On November 14th, 1909, Garnett assaulted Winston Churchill, who instituted policies of force feeding suffragettes in prison, with a whip, striking him several times while shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!"
- Date: 1888-05-17
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, spartacus-educational.com.
- Tags: #Labor, #Feminism, #Birthdays, #Protests.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
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when I was a kid my favorite was the Count, but as an adult my favorite is Oscar the Grouch