Patients sue noted former Mass. General surgeon over gender surgeries they say he botched

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A Gender affirming surgeon is being sued in the US.

"Surgeon Curtis Cetrulo became a leading light of a cutting-edge program at Massachusetts General Hospital soon after it opened in 2018, crafting penises for transgender men — and helping plant a flag in Boston amid intensifying national competition for such procedures.
By then, Cetrulo was already well known in plastic surgery circles. He had led a Mass. General team two years earlier that completed the country’s first successful transplant of a penis, involving a 64-year-old man who had lost his penis to cancer.
For transgender patients, the surgeries he offered included a procedure called abdominal phalloplasty — using skin grafts from the abdomen to form a penis.
But now, two of his former patients are suing Cetrulo and Mass. General for medical malpractice, alleging the gender-reassignment operations he performed were experimental and unsupported by medical research. The lawsuits said he used an untested approach to abdominal phalloplasty that caused them severe pain, disfigurement, infections, and other complications — and led to even more surgery to correct the mistakes.
The patients also allege that Cetrulo did not adequately inform them of the risks of his approach."

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You and I both know you can't always tell lol

I'm a woman so I use women's spaces. It's not hard

Laughing at tricking women into being vulnerable around men who don't give a fuck about their consent.

might as well have it stamped across your forehead.

I disagree. On both counts

They make funnels for that

Not tricking anyone, I'm not a man lol

Okay, you're not me so you don't really get to decide who I am

The threats and physical violence are not from both sides - they're very clearly coming from transactivists.

None of us are seething on trans sites - but here you are - "you're not feminists, obsessed weirdos" and on and on.... Can't imagine a life so lacking that I'd spend time posting alongside people who I dislike - but if that's what makes you happy, you do you..

Most of us are women, many of us are feminists, lesbians, mothers and we're all concerned about what's being done to women and the young in the name of transactivism and men's rights. And we're not stopping.

That's what I thought. There must be some kind of accessory that you can use, just for the kick.

None of us are seething on trans sites - but here you are - "you're not feminists, obsessed weirdos" and on and on....

always so telling, isn't it.

You're not a woman.

Born male, live male, die male. No mammal, and therefore no human, can change sex.

That's just a fact.

Sidhbh Gallagher carries no medical insurance and her dance card is full of obese women hoping, hoping that Gallagher can craft them a penis. She never does, and her patients have no legal recourse.

I'm a woman who detransitioned, it DOES happen to us.

You call us 'transmen' but in reality we are women often with severe mental co-morbities that cause us dysphoria and dis-association from ourselves. I was one of those textbook 'trans kids' insisting I was male from a young age, turned out I had undiagnosed autism and a host of other issues.
My family in their effort to support me did not challenge me when I chose to transition as a teen, even my doctors were supportive. Reality hit me many years later, far as my doctors are concerned I'm one of their 'success stories' but had my mental health and neurodivergence been prioritised I never would have gone down this path and don't pretend like the pre-op therapy is enough, it's not and I've even seen older trans people coaching younger on what to say to get their dysphoria diagnosis.

I now know more detransitioners than trans people, the numbers are growing rapidly and they're almost all girls, this seriously needs to be addressed but it keeps being swept under the rug.

It's going to be this generation's biggest medical scandal, Mark my words.

You posit that your 'transition' as a minor could scare us. I can't join up your dots here. Personally, it saddens me. Why on earth should it scare me?

You don't sound any less ridiculous by repeating utter nonsense. I will never have a phalloplasty because, as a man, I already have a phallus. And mentally healthy women won't ever have one because they accept that they are women,

Your sex is not something you can decide.

It probably does when you think words mean whatever you want them to.

Dysphoria is a mental health condition. A pathology. It is not indicative that you are the opposite sex to that which you actually are. The clue is in the prefix DYS.

And you aren't a woman so how about leaving women alone in their own protected spaces.

You don't require the media to do that, you are doing a great job of that yourself.

You aren't trans, so leave us the fuck alone and stop trying to strip our healthcare from us.

You are right that we know nothing about being trans (except the far less aggressive trans identifying female ‘transman’ that posts regularly on here).

With respect, you know nothing about being a woman.

I’m very sorry you were lied to and sold a dud as a minor. That is bad and on the adults who did that but interfering with your pubertal development, preventing brain maturity and taking cross sex hormones is not conducive to health. It also doesn’t give you a free pass to use women’s spaces.

Also HRT isn't toxic

I think you meant to type 'cross-sex hormones'. HRT is what you're prescribed if your body stops producing, or doesn't produce enough of, the hormones it would normally produce after puberty.

No, your chromosomes get to decide that.
The chromosomes that gave you the hormones that make you bigger and stronger than almost all women even if you are on hormones.

If you'd like to understand our concerns, take a look at the 'it never happens' threads', and the threads about sports.

If you don't want to do that, then accept that you're performing typical male pattern behaviour in being happy to ignore women's concerns.

Like most women, I've been sexually assaulted, as have my DDs, and I don't want ANY men in spaces where women are vulnerable.

If that doesn't give you pause for thought, then I REALLY don't want you in women's spaces.

Oh, and You aren't trans, so leave us the fuck alone and stop trying to strip our healthcare from us.
You aren't a woman, so leave US the fuck alone in the single-sex spaces that we fought for.

"I'm stealth" said no woman ever.