The Phalloplasty Philes- You tuber documents trans surgery realities

I watched these last night and got lost in a bit of a rabbit hole with some of her other videos.

I was disturbed at how ill they looked and how low the bar was for determining it was a " success"

None if them could pe me, they had catheters and numerous complications and no skin on their arm.

If someone had had surgery to save their leg but was left with a non feeling lump thT just dangled, caused them serious pain and having to walk around with a bag taped to the inside if the other leg I doubt that many wouod call the operation a success. Not when some people with prosthetics have gone on to run marathons and compete in sports and live active healthy lives.

The forced grins exclaiming delight at something that's left them repeatedly going back to the drs who bother it the time befire were disturbing.

And good points made about the money just circulating between them all constantly

I do like the way the YouTuber keeps reminding us that this is an issue that will, as numbers grow, place an enormous strain on the medical system and on public funds.

I recently watched two documentaries that are very relevant to what is happening here.

Crime of the Century is on Sky Documentaries and is about the fallout of the opioid epidemic in the US, how it started, how it was exploited and the ways it has destroyed lives.

The Bleeding Edge in on Netflix and is about how little oversight there is over the medical devices industry. How medical devices are aproved and again the devestation to patiens and their families and loved ones.

They are both brilliant but very difficult to watch and helped me to understand how the whole gender affirming industry and how it is being allowed to propogate despite the obvious harms it causes the the patients and the people who love them.

I've only watched he first few minutes of this one but I found it really upsetting, it reminds me of my mum and aunt. In fact my mum has a near identical photo to the one this person describes as the proof that they were not a girl.

The difference is my mum was allowed to be herself. wear shorts and tshirts and her hair short, play in the fields with the boys, climb trees, ride bikes, make mud pies, build forts, tinker in the garage with dad, get messy and muddy, and this is still part of being a girl.

It breaks my heart that normal, healthy people are being convinced there is something not natural about them and the answer is not therapy or councelling but surgery and medication. I hate it, hate it, hate it.

God this is so disturbing. That first person especially seemed so unhappy, and still couldn't pee through their 'penis' even after months! Why are they not being offered counselling or therapy, but happily given life altering surgeries like it is nothing?

This is also a recent discovery of mine. I really like how she expresses herself and repeatedly makes the point that these are medical resources being used for elective surgeries (during the pandemic in several examples) and therefore are being redirected away from other few-paying patients who require necessary surgeries.

So far the videos I've seen are ftm LD and they all mention the need to pee standing up, this appears to be a 'key ask'. They all have numerous serious medical issues that have been caused by their surgeries and all say they hate various things about the results or how they have suffered but also say how happy they are with their decision to have had the surgery.

One ftm made a list of all the things they hated about their phalloplasty and it included things like the colour of the skin as it had been taken from the thigh (the 'donor site', I know it's medical language but it sounds so removed from saying that it was a taken from a sort of your own body) it is paler than what this person anticipated and as the electrolysis was done on the other leg, and that skin couldn't be used, this person shaves the phallus every other day.

It is shocking and difficult to watch but also I think it's important to see as it shows the reality of the surgical results, and the ones I've watched are utterly convinced it was the right decision and Exulusanic keeps reminding viewers that each person was physically healthy prior to the surgery.

I discovered this YouTuber recently. She is extremely astute and has a medical background (pathologist, I believe) which is very evident in the detail she provides.

Sorry, I pressed send too soon. The whole thing just seems deeply unethical to me. The UTI s the fistulas, and these are to be expected?!? The patient deciding the course of surgery? When they're clearly emotionally unwell, and a vaginoplasty without a hysterectomy?! I mean all if the surgeries seem unnecessary and overcomplicated but.... I'm just gobsmacked, really I am.

Okay I just watched it and oh my, that was really upsetting.

I just can't find the words to say how shocking and disturbing I find it. That poor, poor person. They've destroyed their body and set themselves a lifetime of medical and surgical dependency for what? I fear that they will hit a wall at some point when they realise that fantasy and reality are two different things. I hope they have the support they need when they reach that point.

I just watched one of those videos - they are a really hard watch. I'm aware the youtuber is probably cherry picking but I noticed that

• all of the transmen featured seemed to get increasingly unhappy after their procedures

• all of the transmen featured looked I'll - pale faces, dark rings around eyes.

-the titles acceptance of the inevitability of life changing features complications like urinary incontinence

• it may well be due to editing and cherry picking but they all seemed really ignorant of their female anatomy and general medical complications. Lots of talk about skin "harvesting" and creation penis / scrotum facsimile. Talk of vaginectomy. No discuss of removal of cervix/uterus/ovaries. No discussion about what happened to the clitoris. I say ignorance of female anatomy, but one of them mentioned that penises commonly had "a little bit of hair"

Given that I'm sure these examples were cherry picked Im interested to know if there have been any "successful" phalloplasties that allow the owner to urinate at will, have penetrative sex, orgasm.

Thanks for sharing this. I haven't watched the whole video yet but I will do. Just a question, in the comments somebody mentioned the phalliaplasty was carried out without performing a hysterectomy, is that right?

She’s excellent at challenging certain ‘issues’. Has done a few videos about how Jazz Jennings is being exploited by their family and doctors all under the glare of public scrutiny.

I find these too hard to watch, it's beyond shocking what's going on.