Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony'
Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony'
Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males.
Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males.
The thing is, growing up in an evangelical church they don’t want these people getting breast reduction surgery either. they firmly believe that any change to the body is going against God’s will regardless of the physical or mental harm it may cause.
117Except male genital mutilation, aka circumcision. (Please don't take this as me saying FGM and MGM are equally bad. FGM is much, much worse.)
43There are other forms of MGM too. Fortunately most of them are rare these days. Castration, subincision, penectomy.
And then there’s intersex people. That are routinely subject to “corrective surgery” in infancy. As adults they tend to be firmly of the opinion they should have been left alone and that the surgeries were harmful.
IMO bodily integrity and autonomy is a fundamental human right that should be absolutely respected for every human being.
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this should hilight to us the outsized effect transphobia has on discourse.
if we were to believe the line that “we’re just concerned about people getting mutilated” we must naturally expect to see that 97% margin of outrage at breast implants, hair implants, weight management surgery etc. for cis folk.
and we don’t. here and there you might hear an evangelical getting upsetti spaghetti avout Ozempic et al but transphobic talking points dominate, in vast disproportion to actual individual cases.
33Although they're usually fine with things like wearing glasses and getting stents. Odd, isn't it?
20Well except for giant fake titties, God wants those. If we can get those on some minors, I'm pretty sure Republicans would shut the fuck up for decades.
15My mother is fond of saying "God doesn't make junk". Easily disproven whether or not you believe in a god, but she's a "if I don't like it, it didn't happen" variety of Trump supporter, so I err on the side of changing the subject over arguing.
14My mother (religious) once told me my tattoos make her sad. There are only two that are visible on a forearm (the third is under my shirt). I told her that they make me feel happy. She’s never brought it up again. But hers is less fervent, still rooted in the same origin.
13I'm guessing that's because the Bible says no tattoos in the same book where it says not to eat pork and shellfish, but Christians only believe the passages in the Pentateuch if they're okay with them.
Bible says no pork, pork is ok.
Bible says not to be gay in the exact same book, being gay is an abomination unto the lord.
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Oh they absolutely do. The alternative is men with breasts. They’ll say they don’t, but when the time comes to accept cis men’s bodies when they fall outside “male” expectations they won’t.
13This appears to be an issue with accurate reporting. Considerations like this would make the data make a lot more sense.
The problem is the interpretation by those running the study.
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Gender affirmation only counts to them if it defies the sex or gender binary. They're completely fine with people modifying their bodies to affirm their masculinity or femininity so long as they were assigned male or female at birth accordingly.
Trans people pursuing medical transition are such a small percentage of the population that cis people getting hormone therapy or affirming surgeries will always dwarf the number of trans people who are. Throw in all of the ways we affirm the gender of cis people, through language and fashion and culture and so on, and it's evident what their gripe is. It's never been about children receiving gender affirmation, merely their conviction that transgender people do not exist or are immoral and evil and shouldn't exist. There's a reason modern transphobia is highly intertwined with fascism. To believe that an entire group of people, based solely on their gender, is immoral and evil is only possible through a lense of dehumanization and conspiracy. Something they are especially good at. We are too few in number and too disparate to counteract the efforts of fascists, who by themselves outnumber us in every way.
96They may be fine with it, but the laws they are passing are not.
And I won't be shocked if they decide that it's actually a good thing like the anti-IVF stuff that happened as a result of the anti-abortion laws.
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Why are so many cis males getting breast reduction surgery tho?
Edit I didn't know that many dudes had boobs. Makes sense, thanks :3
35Especially when you can get them enlarged! C’mon fellas. Have fun with it.
Seriously though, I get that this could be terribly embarrassing if you have boobs as a man. I feel bad for kids in gym locker rooms getting teased.
43I've got to get to a damn gym right now
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Dude, I saw that picture of Elliot Page after he got his breasts removed. He looked HAPPY. Rejuvenated. I want to get rid of mine to. I've never wanted gender affirming care as much as I do now as a cis gender man, these guys are getting it done. It's clearly making them feel better.
28Because the alternative is a brossiere.
17I believe the options were the manssiere or the bro.
8Brossieres are known to cause medical issues, mostly back, spine, wear and damage.
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All dudes have boobs. They have nipples and breast tissue. They can lactate (small amounts) and get breast cancer.
This is because, in mammals, the default sex leans towards more female. An XY-chromosome 'male' foetus that doesn't respond to androgens in the womb will not develop male external genitalia, and will probably be assumed to be female on birth.
Sex is not binary, because biology isn't simple. Gender, which is more complex than that, is not, either.
15Because of dem tiddis fool.
10Because they're overweight and a bunch of the fat ended up there and it makes them unhappy when they look in a mirror.
Theres a reason most fat males keep their shirts on at the beach.
-11Surgical tech here!
We do these (breast reduction surgeries on men) every now and then. Not super often... I've been in maybe 10 of them? Of the ones I've been in, one was a dude with breast cancer - chopped out the cancer, then chopped down the other moob so they'd heal to be the same size. All of the other ones were gym rats who took steroids and grew some boobs. None were overweight.
I've only been in a handful, so grain of salt, but in my experience weight is NOT a factor.
...and this seems like a good time for a plug: Men can 100% get breast cancer. Not often, but possible. If any of you fellas feel a weird lump in your moobs, DO NOT hesitate to get it checked out!!
25It's different for everyone, I'm overweight and don't have tiddies at all, but I've seen men who looked like a fairly healthy weight who had noticeable tiddies.
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I was wondering when they would start to figure out that maybe it's a bad idea for the government to get between people and their doctors.
26Most will only realize its a bad idea when it affects them. Just like they can only empathize with someone who is experiencing the exact same thing they are.
19Easy, they don't see trans folk as "people".
8100% and they're trying to work on the definition of 'Doctor' too.
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"Getting between people and doctors" is maybe the wrong wording, that's the excuse snake oil salesmen and antivaxxers use. The FDA and other regulatory bodies should get between people and doctors, the opiod crisis peddled by big pharma is enough proof.
Remember during the height of COVID when quacks (and the president) were prescribing dewormers?
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Well they do vastly outnumber us and have a ton of their own gender based insecurities so it makes sense
23This is ABSURD! Somebody needs to AMEND these laws to allow little girls to get Breast Implants!
-Republicans that totally aren't Sex Offenders like DRAG QUEENS ARE!
10All those dudes getting breast reduction and not a single one getting a penis enlargement?
It also said it's on minors which means they didn't choose to have this done; their parents/guardians did. It's all cool if you're choosing for yourself. It's pretty disgusting to force this stuff on a child that can't legally choose for themselves; whether it's cisgendered or not.
-9Where does it say the kids aren’t in agreement?
13It's a technicality. The parents have the authority.
There's no mention of the minor's choice.
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It’s pretty disgusting to force this stuff on a child that can’t legally choose for themselves
Lol, what? Sure, they need parental permission... but you're assuming they don't have the mental capacity to choose to have a procedure?
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