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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Woman has clitoris removed due to silicone poisoning.

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HelenaDove · 05/08/2017 15:36

I read an interview that she did in this weeks Womans Own while at the hairdressers.

I found this older interview online. Absolutely horrified at what she has been through.

They referred her to a transgender clinic afterwards Confused

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/its-like-something-out-horror-8903972

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Stormwhale · 05/08/2017 15:45

Poor woman. She has been through such an ordeal and the referral to a transgender clinic is just a huge kick in the teeth. It just shows again what a mess our nhs is in really.

Seeingadistance · 06/08/2017 01:46

And what's even worse is that her clitoris was removed in error!

HelenaDove · 06/08/2017 18:45

Seeing ............yes i am completely Shock that this happened to her.

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VestalVirgin · 06/08/2017 21:53

Ugh, the comments are so vile! Only read the first two, and already, I don't want to read more.

"The price of vanity", one male commenter says ... bet he wouldn't want to be with a woman who just kept her mastectomy scars and didn't get implants. Asshole.

I also bet that implants are recommended by all the surgeons you talk to after having a mastectomy because of cancer. (As opposed to having perfectly healthy breasts removed because of genderism)

And this male asshole pretends the woman was "vain".

When he and his ilk are the ones driving the demand for silicone breasts, so to speak.

Not surprised if they indeed removed her clitoris just because it might help. It would follow a long tradition of removing female organs for no reason whatsoever except that the male surgeon can and wants to do it.

jonnywasnochemist · 06/08/2017 22:44

The expert opinion at the end of the article is interesting.

Her account may well be her understanding of what's happened, but scientifically, I don't understand how her account can be accurate, as to the causes of what has happened. I realise an article in the Mirror is not going to outline someones medical history particularly well, but it doesn't quite make sense how implants lead to a clitoris being removed. The expert mentions lichen sclerosis, which can just happen.

Surgeons offer reconstruction after mastectomy, and often women want it. I would. Not because I'm vain, but because I like my shape the way it is, and would want to limit the damage cancer did to my sense of self. It's not pushed in any way, to have reconstruction. There was one deeply unethical surgeon, who did 'breast sparing mastectomies', but he's now behind bars.

If she had her clitoris removed in error, then that is a major issue, more so than the implants, and I would imagine she has been given a large pay out for the poor practice, not that that in any way makes up for it. It's odd that they don't mention that in the article, that she's sued the NHS, as I would do were my clitoris removed.

I think that The Mirror's poor journalism, and the subjectivity of the account, is unlikely to be giving the full story.

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