Augmentation
Even the Mayo Clinic does this. I’m not sure I knew.
Feminizing surgery, also called gender-affirming surgery, involves procedures that help better align the body with a person’s gender identity. Research has found that gender-affirming surgery can have a positive impact on well-being and sexual function.
Feminizing surgery includes several options, such as top surgery to increase the size of the breasts. That procedure also is called breast augmentation.
That is, surgery on men to increase the size of men’s “breasts.” Do men even have breasts? Nipples, yes, but breasts?
Breast surgery. Surgery to increase breast size is called top surgery or breast augmentation. It can be done through implants, the placement of tissue expanders under breast tissue, or the transplantation of fat from other parts of the body into the breast.
Does that seem like a sensible thing to do?
That’s only true so long as the person remains a gendercult member in good standing and a firm believer in magic gender souls. Breast amputation is a ritual, not a medical treatment. It’s an initiation ceremony. The positive outcome is the sense of belonging within the tribe. The wellbeing is conditional upon the person’s ongoing faith in the tenets of the tribe. If they leave the cult, the “positive impact on wellbeing” disappears.
This treatment may have begun under a secular framework — back when there were vanishingly few women with severe, debilitating gender dysphoria, and they underwent sometimes years of therapy before they arrived at a reasoned, pragmatic decision to modify their bodies for the sake of their long-term mental wellbeing. (And even as a secular mental health treatment protocol that comes with strong gatekeeping from clinicians, it remains highly contentious.) But today’s “gender affirming care” model is far from a secular, pragmatic protocol for rare cases of severe, debilitating mental distress. It’s a religious doctrine.
This is not medicine. When other cultures or sects engage in medically unnecessary body modifications we flat-out refuse to accept the practices as medicine, no matter how much “better” the victims claim to feel after having them done.
I’m talking, of course, about FGM. No credible doctor in the West would attempt to justify the practice of genital cutting as “medicine” by looking at short- to medium-term mental health outcomes and ignoring the immediate and permanent physical health impairment it does.
But I could just as easily be talking about the NXIUM cult and the women who had the cult leader’s initials branded into their skin with an electro-cautery pen. Many of the women reported feeling fantastic about having it done — including the doctor who performed the procedure on the women:
Needless to say, after leaving the cult, the women do not have positive feelings about what was done to them. The doctor was stripped of her medical license.
I wonder if we’ll see some stripping of people’s medical licenses at the Mayo Clinic after this scandal finally breaks.
Oops, I misread the post and assumed it was about women getting their breasts amputated. In gender-world, it’s sometimes hard to parse the actual sex of the people being discussed.
It’s equally absurd to treat men getting breast implants to enhance their “sexual function” as a medically necessary procedure.
Outrageous, nonetheless.
Ya, that’s basically why I wrote the post – I saw someone on Twitterx burbling about breast surgery and belatedly realized it was the “create breasts for men” kind of breast surgery, which I didn’t even know was a thing. So farking stupid.
Technically, men do have ducts, albeit tiny, but lack lobules. I’d have to do a deeper dive to see if men have any detectable precursors to lobules; lobule formation can be hormonal induced, but I’m not 100% sure what tissue they arise from there.
But in either case, we’re apparently not allowed to refer to “breastfeeding” any more, so apparently no one has breasts?
Or something.
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