• ashinadash [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    and I couldn't make it through the first couple of steps without having to close the book.

    being really fuckin' weird

    Sorry but it makes me cackle whenever I hear of cis men recoiling in terror at genital surgeries, like lol. Idk, I'm the type of person who went and watched videos of both orchiectomies and various vaginoplasties, which is visceral but so fascinating. If whatever viscera is happening is going on for a good purpose I have no ability to worry. Super cool ngl. I should watch some phalloplasty or medioplasty too sometime... Actually I wonder what a nullification looks like surgically, huh.

    • courier8377 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Lol this brought back a memory of showing a CGI video of an orchiectomy to a friend in high school and him slapping my phone to the ground and breaking the nifty kickstand on the case :(

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        Wow that's so rude, he didn't even see the real thing! The laserwhatever cutter they use is awesome.

    • SchillMenaker [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      That's kind of what I was getting at. No other medical/surgical stuff bothers me at all but there's something deeply primal about protecting your dangly parts as a cis man that can override a pretty strong dispassion/interest for surgical procedures. I think the only other surgical technique that's ever bothered me is when someone is getting a nose job and the plastic surgeon has a chisel up there and is going to town with the mallet like he's John Henry. That's still an overwhelmingly distant second to even the cursory thought of testicle removal to me.

      It's been a fairly convincing argument because any man who can accept that trans people actually want that is generally much more open to accepting that being transgendered is real.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        3 months ago

        me being transgendered when the doctor makes an incision above the inguinal canal before redacted-1redacted-2

        Truly the "deeply primal" aspect has cis men treating their giblets as utterly special lol