• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    They shouldn’t, but I have heard way too many horror stories about trans men who have been misled and ripped off by unethical surgeons who just perform a mastectomy as they would with a cancer patient and have no care at all for doing the aesthetic work for chest masculinization.

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      1 year ago

      That’s dreadful, and also I gather that nowadays there is of emphasis on getting an aesthetic result for female cancer patients who do not want their breast(s) to be rebuilt & that it is increasingly common to prefer to be flat.

      Of course, flat-chested femininity looks very different to flat-chested (or ripped-pecced) masculinity, but I find it a bit baffling that an experienced surgeon couldn’t figure out how to create a good result for any sort of chest.

      So it feels like it maybe comes down to attitudinal issues amongst some surgeons.