Today I am one-year post op from my top surgery. There have been many changes over the course of the year, both physically, emotionally, and mentally. Overall I am extremely happy. Timeline: Posts Here’s a list of all the posts I wrote related to my top surgery: Pre-Surgery 02/11/2011 Top Surgery 02/15/2011 Top Surgery, Part 2 02/19/2011 Last Minute Concerns Seven-Day Journal 02/21/2011 Top Surgery … Continue reading Top Surgery: 1 Year Post-Op
Before my top surgery I did lots of research. It mostly consisted of browsing piles of pictures of people’s chests, picking apart the subtle nuances of each, and drawing conclusions to ultimately inform my decision. I get quite a few requests to share my thought process for analyzing these results. Given my experience, I’m going to focus on DI procedures, though some things are relevant … Continue reading Top Surgery: Analyzing Results
Well, I’m a 33 year old female bodied but trans identifying person. I am seriously considering top surgery, but have no desire to ever go on T. My question: If you don’t mind me asking, and please forgive me if I am being rude, what were your chest measurements, cup size, I suppose it is called, before the surgery? I can find so many post-op … Continue reading Reader Ramblings: There’s No T in Top Surgery
Dysphoria can strike in different modalities: some of us experience physical discomfort with our bodies, while for others the distress is in social recognition of our gender. Continue reading Reader Ramblings: Physical and Social Dysphoria
On my seventh-month post-op day (Sept 24), I paid a visit to the very friendly folk at Dimensions Clinic, the health clinic for transgender and queer youth. I asked the wonderful Dr about my hypertrophic scars, and brought up the idea of cortisone injections, since she had already mentioned it last time. Next thing I know I’m lying on the examination table getting pricked by … Continue reading Top Surgery Update: Scars
Having hit almost 75 posts, I compiled a list of the top 10 posts from this blog. “Top” was defined by me to be most viewed posts of all time. Pages were excluded, so the About page, while awesome and popular, doesn’t count, but you should still read it. And as much as I wanted to just pick my favorites and leave it at that, … Continue reading Top 10
First off, I can’t believe it’s been 5 months. It seems like such a long time ago; I can’t imagine my body any other way – even if it did used to be different, it feels so natural now it’s hard to believe that it was different. It also seems like such a short time, because I have many many many years ahead in my … Continue reading Top Surgery Update: 5 Months Post-Op
I recently added an Ask box to the blog – you might want to check it out! Question I was looking for FTN pictures on google and came across this, so I’m sorry if you’ve already answered (I haven’t read all of your stuff), but how did you go about getting the surgery and was there any other transitioning you did and how? I’m neutrois … Continue reading Reader Ramblings: The Process of Getting Top Surgery
Today, April 23, is my birthday (don’t worry, I scheduled this post beforehand, I’m probably out celebrating right now). I share this day of birth of William Shakespeare, Shirley Temple, and other famous people who have Wikipedia articles. I am now 25 years old, and looking younger everyday. It’s also almost exactly two months since my top surgery, and as a mish-mash-all-in-one I’ll share my … Continue reading Birthday
EDIT: see the comments at the end of the post. I found a link to a guy’s blog, and he doesn’t allow comments, so here’s my comment. The author points out that some of the descriptions of top surgery (aka FTM Chest Masculinization) cases on a Dr.’s website list the patient as she and her. And the author is very pissed at this. And this … Continue reading Top Surgery is Not Just for FTMs
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