I've just been reminded again of the fact that I almost allowed myself to be talked into undergoing a "Metoidioplasty" early on during my time pursuing medical transition. I was very proud of my testosterone induced "bottom growth", and multiple other (older) FtMs that I knew...
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Replying to @FlohrFritz
Oh God. I didn't even know that the phalloplasty involved some form of clitoroidectomy? How can that be?
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Replying to @NoraBleeding @FlohrFritz
It doesn't, in the UK at least sometimes it stays on the outside and sometimes they burry it under the skin. Either way it stays intact and (in some way) accessible. The nerve hook-ups aren't always successful, so if they did anything like a "clitoridectomy" there'd be outrage.
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Replying to @MediocreDruid @NoraBleeding
That's good to know, but in the early 2000s, in the USA, some surgeons were doing this.
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Replying to @FlohrFritz @NoraBleeding
Could it not have been one of those things that patients would ask for because of extreme dysphoria? I can't believe a surgeon would do that, but then again I've heard of plenty surgeons disregarding the clitoris as unimportant so.. I'm not surprised. I hope it wasn't widespread.
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Replying to @MediocreDruid @NoraBleeding
The excuse we heard was that the surgeon said they would otherwise have "two dicks", which would be unacceptable. Other surgeons were disassembling clitorises to use the nerves for the phalloplasty. What was left of the clitoris wouldn't be functional. This is still happening.
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My surgeon told me they took nerves from it for the hook-up to and then usually burried it. They said there'd be "50% less" feeling in it and that it'd be sort of accessible under the skin, which at least sounds better than removal/clitoridectomy because it retains some function.
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