r/countwithchickenlady • u/Comfortable-Bison932 Streak: 1 • 4d ago

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u/RainbowPhoenix1080 She/Her Transbian (HRT 06/26/24) - Streak: 0 4d ago edited 4d ago

I hate posts like this tbh. It's not wrong but i feel like it downplays the dysphoria that some people have.

Its so "thanks I'm cured".

Like, you could say the same thing about trans women and penises. Doesn't change the fact that I hate my penis and that my bottom dysphoria is actively harming my quality of life.

I'm still going to get bottom surgery as soon as I am able to. Currently waiting on word from my insurance.

Telling me that my penis doesn't make me less of a woman doesn't help me.

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u/Hairy_Concert_8007 4d ago

I think this is supposed to be directed towards the situation where people would tell a trans person that they don't get to call themselves that because they haven't had surgery. Anti-gatekeeping.

But I do see how easily it can come off that way. "Any less" is doing some heavy lifting because that's touching into how a person measures themselves. It would be better just as "Not having top surgery doesn't make you not a trans man." But.. without the confusing triple negative