Watching Glinner recent interview with a detransitioner has really got to me.

[Appalonia]

Currently watching the recent Glinner interview with a detransitioned woman and she's talking about how her "top surgery" was so easy to get , basically just waived through and yet, if you wanted a breast reduction for genuine reasons, it's almost impossible to get! I've had chronic back problems for years because of my chest size but there's no way of ever be able to get a breast reduction on those grounds. Sorry, I know this has been talked about before, but watching it tonight has just brought back the inherent unfairness and ( I want to say ideologicalness, but I know that's not an actual word! ) of how women and their bodies and healthcare are regarded... Bloody pissed off!

This is the interview

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4LIM7uY1itE&t=845s

Sorry, but I can't stand the man

To each their own. I have a very soft spot for Glinner and youtube channel is interesting..
As you say, OP, it is appalling. Same with the near impossibility of women getting sterilised, even if they have three children already, (in part for good reasons, as sterilisation can cause menopause that then entails other health problems), and the ease with which children are sterilised when it is done in the name of this movement.

The latest series of I Am Jazz has been a useful propaganda piece for the proponents of FtM transition. Now they've got nothing else to do to Jazz other than fat shame, they have focussed on a couple of female transitioners, showcasing their mastectomies as being very quick and simple operations, apparently feeling next to no pain following their operations (yeah, right), post op euphoria, describing the plastic surgery as art; and most insidious, previously opposing families being reunited around their new understanding that "trans is good". It's very easy to get swept up whilst watching into the "feel good" factor, because you don't want young people (kids really) to be unhappy and in pain and who doesn't enjoy seeing estranged family reunite? It had me going for a second, and then I remembered what I was watching. It's so irresponsible.

Sympathies to you, OP. It's so unfair that, as grown women, we are treated like we don't know what we want or need in terms of medical care, and we're not prioritised. I almost get the impression that some doctors don't want us to do anything that might be displeasing to a male partner, current or future. I wonder what would happen if you claimed you were male?

@ashainspace

Sorry, but I can't stand the man.

So you will let your dislike of the man get in the way of what the woman being interviewed has to say? Why?

Sorry, but I can't stand the man.

What's that got to do with anything? The OP's post is about what the detransitioned woman said, not about whether the interviewer is appealing.

It is impossible as a woman to miss the power imbalance.

If you're a woman, you can be as distressed as you like about your reproductive system or breasts - you're on your own. Self fund if you can.

However explain you're a man, and hey presto. The doors open on the spot!

I've had the Tears for Fears song, Mothers' Talk stuck in my head since watching. But with the lyrics 'Detrans! Work it out!'.

@ashainspace

Sorry, but I can't stand the man.

Ok thanks for the info.

OP it was like when women couldn't get HRT for love nor money. I remember having a prescription and visiting or phoning every pharmacy and nobody had it, and then having to go back for another prescription which by the time I got it, they had also all gone and each day I felt worse and worse as my symptoms returned... And yet there were men being prescribed HRT by which I mean H because it isn't replacing anything for them...and crowing about how it was 'lifesaving' for them.

Got to me too.

@ashainspace

Sorry, but I can't stand the man.

Well, I think he's fucking brilliant.