The other other half

"It's ok to lower a man... it's not ok to elevate a woman."

ok... point being... In this society, men are seen as superior to women. True, this attitude has improved over the last couple of decades or so (thanks to Betty & co.), but I think that (especially the older members of) the medical community still continue to discriminate against those they consider to be female. To make a woman into a man, you'd be elevating the woman in the eyes of (sexist) society. When you make a man (a twisted sick man) into a woman, who cares? He deserves to be discriminated against anyway!

Does that make any more sense?


I've seen a great many FtM's post-op results. Not one of them has ever looked anywhere near the level of "perfect" I've seen with MtFs. In fact, most (if not all) of them looked mutilated. I've seen the results of mastectomies done on women who had breast cancer that looked better than some of the chests of FtMs.

In general, I still believe that many doctors who deal with FtMs are simply threatened by them. Most surgeons (still) are men, and even looking at society at large, if men (again, in general) are not beating MtFs to death, they're trying to have sex with them. MtFs do not threaten masculinity in the same way, nor do they cause men to question their own sexuality in the same way that FtMs do. I honestly believe that many surgeons who work with FtMs have no desire to perfect anything. If they did, they'd have to admit that someone born with a vagina should be held in the same high regard as someone born with a penis.


It's not that it's impossible to improve the techniques used in FtM surgeries. Most of the mistakes made (which I know about) were completely avoidable in the first place. It's not that it's currently impossible (like reversing most of the effects of testosterone) to do good surgical work... it's just that the people doing the work don't care to know how to. It's not lucrative enough (less FtMs than MtFs), and (again) I think it is still rooted in sexism for many.