How do you feel about bottom surgery?

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As a medical type myself, I can tell you:  FTM surgery generally is not worth it.  As surgeries go, it's ineffective and crude.  Sorry, but that's the plain truth.  I've done a gazillion surgery reports over the years, and I know a good surgery from a flak surgery.  This is the latter. 

I see where you're coming from, and I know what you mean. But I have to point out that it seems to be worth it for most of the guys who decide to get it. I only know a couple of guys IRL who have had bottom surgery, and they are thrilled with their results--results that, for a lot of guys, would not be worth it. So when my buddy X looks at my buddy Y's Transbucket photos and sniffs that he is not impressed with the results, I'm thinking well, maybe that wouldn't work for you, but it works for him. (I also wonder about sour grapes, too, but who knows?)

Your earlier post about GYN exams really made me cringe, but I know you're right. So many of the guys I know IRL won't even talk about it, even though they still have the equipment. So when my GP told me the other day that he didn't know any GYNs with trans guy experience, and shouldn't I try to find someone through the trans community, I had to shrug my shoulders and tell him that I hadn't been able to get cooperation from my community. I really don't think anyone in my city has any particular experience with trans men, but if someone did, I'm not finding out about that practitioner through trans channels.

It's very frustrating. I want to take care of myself, but I don't want to sit in a waiting room filled with women gawking at me, and have the nurses call me "she" even though, yes, I AM listed that way on my insurance, or, indeed, have anybody at all look at me down there unless they're getting ready to fix the problem and give me real junk.

That's the only reason I was able to bare my chest to the surgeon--I knew he was going to take those things AWAY. I have no such comfort for GYN exams. But maybe things will be better if I switch to a GYN I don't know, instead of having my GP do the exam.

Sorry, I seem to be slightly off topic.

[Liam K]

Part of me kind of wants to have bottom surgery someday, but it's expensive.  Even if I did have that kind of money, there are a lot of other things I could do with it that would be a lot more important to me than having bottom surgery.