Trans Talk on Yik Yak | I think the ways our bodies are medicalized is far more indicative that gender as a category came to shape sex as a category. (On Judith) I’ve got a friend who’s been transitioning for two years, she says putting down “male” on doctoral forms

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I think the ways our bodies are medicalized is far more indicative that gender as a category came to shape sex as a category. (On Judith) I’ve got a friend who’s been transitioning for two years, she says putting down “male” on doctoral forms—

Anonymous 2d

Would not be accurate, because the “software” her body/brain runs on is more akin to what would be called female. So, she puts down intersex. And, not to invalidate anyone, I think our brains/bodies can sometimes exist in a medical limbo. Because so little research is put into us beyond our capacity for suffering, people forget to think about us beyond beginning stages of transition. So we’re medicalized according to our sex at birth until suddenly, we’re anomalies that no doctor can assist.

Anonymous 17h

i've seen some clinics do an organ inventory where you can check off what parts you have. it would be a problem with many cis women who don't know what procedure they actually had done when they got a "hysterectomy" but i like that concept

Anonymous

OP 1d

Yea I’ve thought for a while about how putting down my sex assigned at birth really just isn’t accurate. Like at minimum a slight majority of secondary sex characteristics are changed by hrt. And more beyond that can be changed by procedures like surgery and hair removal. Like hell I’m already more or less 50/50 with just E. Maybe more but I can’t exactly check my heart and lung capacity. Like objectively I operate biologically quite different than cis men. For fucks sake I have a period now.

Anonymous

#1 1d

But the cis perception of this always tends to view this with WAY more skepticism and as if we’re just coping with dysphoria by being delusional or smth. But like. What else would hrt even be doing if not this.

Anonymous

#2 17h

Im pretty sure if they had that procedure they would have been told?

Anonymous

OP 17h

it's kinda a "yes, and" bc yes, ideally they would've been told and had it fully explained to them. but there's always a possibility (and it happens very often) that they: don't remember what was removed, didn't have it explained well and so they assume it was X organ(s) when it's Y organ(s), don't understand how anatomy works, and other things i'm not thinking of. it's not as simple as like, i got top surgery so i don't have C cups anymore, unfortunately

Anonymous

#2 17h

but also! i still have breast tissue! so it's complicated