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According to a link I was sent by a friend, plastic surgery in the US has reached new heights, okay it's from the Daily Wail, but the pictures are impressive. Only two things stop me, finding $30,000 and general cowardice - I'll bet it hurts.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2115408/Its-hard-l...
And more on the 'she's my dad' theme: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2115141/Should-I-D...
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Daily Hate
You got to these ones early, girl. The readers haven't fully mobilised for their vitriol to reach the comments.
Tash and Jane
In retrospect, I just don't understand the whole gender transformation thing in spite of the fact that I did it.
I think that Jane's leggings are not appropriate for a woman her age, sorry to be a bit snippy, just saying. I did used to try to wear minis and tank tops, but I get the least hastle if I dress more like a nun.
Please forgive me as I've only just gotten out of bed.
Gwendolyn
Amusingly enough...
...the crime against fashion (pink leggings) seems to have exercised the commentators / voters - most of the highest rated comments are about that...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
I've talked...
I've talked to some girls who have been through the surgery with Dr. Spiegel... (And talked to him.)
The pain IS there, the first day or three. But, by about 3 days later, you need nothing more than over the counter pain meds, if that. One girl I know personally had her surgery on a Thursday, and by Sunday needed no pain meds. Bruising and such was gone within two weeks. (Some residual swelling and numbness remained at that point.)
Dr. Spiegel told me he was surprised at how little pain "his girls" (his words) reported, but that it was fairly universal.
So - don't let the pain stop you. :-)
As to the cost... The cost's all over the place. It all depends on how many things you and the doctor agree need to be "fixed" to make your face more feminine...
One of the things Dr. Spiegel said to me was his goal is to make you look like your twin sister. People that know you will still recognize you (Some are likely to ask if you changed your hair style or lost weight...). It's people that do not know you... The subtle changes are intended to make a person's first thought on seeing you - "female"...
For me - luckily - it's covered by my insurance!
For the down side - it doesn't necessarily make us look pretty nor does it do anything with our brains... If we've a chip about our appearance... This doesn't make it go away.
Anne
Every one of us has things they would like to change
For me it is that darn hair line and that is annoying since apparently I have male/female pattern loss also as age has made my hair thin. I am lucky that that is not a real change to my appearance per se as I think the rest of it has always been pretty femme. The latter is a mixed legacy of being Chinese and having a soft face and full lips that looked really weird as a guy but hormones brought into congruency for me as a woman. Thank Goddess too as there was no such thing as FFS twenty five years ago.
Kim
Silk purses from sow's ears?
To me, it's up to the individual and how comfy they are in the image that they show to the public
May Your Light Forever Shine
Kim?
I think you are on the boarder between being right and wrong timewise.
>> Thank Goddess too as there was no such thing as FFS twenty five years ago. <<
>> Back in the late 80's, Dr. Douglas Ousterhout came to understand that facial masculinization effects in male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals can be every bit as disfiguring and socially damaging to them as are the effects of severe facial disfigurement in accident victims and genetic facial deformities in children. Having extensive maxillofacial, craniofacial, reconstructive, plastic and aesthetic surgical experience, and a large "kit of surgical tricks" that he could apply to solve such problems, Dr. Ousterhout began to pioneer new methods for very aggressive surgical reconstruction of transsexual womens' facial features.
Many of the surgical techniques used to perform FFS are described in Dr. Ousterhout's textbook Aesthetic Contouring of the Craniofacial Skeleton, Douglas K. Ousterhout, Ed., 1991. The techniques go well beyond traditional cosmetic surgery (as can be seen in the drawings and photos in that book of the surgical removal and recontouring of a large section of forehead and eye-orbit bones to eliminate a male-browridge).
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/~mirror/FFS/LynnsFFS.html#anchor72451
"Lynn's Facial Feminization Surgery (FFS)"
And...you know...other surgeons might have been trying the same sort of thing, in the 25 yrs ago time period....
2012-1987=25....
Hugs and Bright Blessings,
Renee
this is one "sow's ear"
who is going to have to live with the face she's got. Those kind of treatments are expensive.