also on bottom surgery: neovaginas lining are created from either skin or portion of the intestin (and sometime buccal mucosa). It's hollow and needs to be manually dialated everyday, otherwise it closes up on itself. They don't create any semblance of a female orgasm, it lacks the muscle spasms, the cervical fluids, and the cyprine. Some can get """"wet"""" but it's either seminal fluids having been rerouted during the surgery or intestinal fluids when made from a portion of intestin.
A HUGE majority of patients report never getting feeling back, they often suffer nerve damage, neuropathyand other array of issues. Surgeons sometimes try to preserve the glan and turn it into a clitoris, but here again with all the cutting the sensibility is pratically null and nothing like the sensation of a clitoris. Penetration is often painful or unconfortable. Oh and a very cute fact but sometimes, surgeon leave behind erectile tissue, which do get engorged when arroused. It's at the very least unconfortable, and at worst painful. Ah and of course life long issues, and urinary problems.
I hate how these surgeries are advertised to mentally ill people and sexual deviants, it's a joke of the female genital, it's such a great risk with so many complications.

I'm so glad to see so many people being uncomfortable with the "egg" thing. To me it always reaked of social contagion, kinda like when one person decides they're autistic out of the blue and starts to diagnose their entire friend group with autistic traits. It feels yucky and disrespectful to the entire thing.

I think it's because of the way the gender movement appeals to women differently than to men. From what I saw most of the times women don't really wannt to be men, they just don't want to be women. You then have a lot more women who can be considered trans if "not identifying as your biological sex" is considered trans, you don't even have to go very far in transition.

"What does this make me?" a woman.

Not detrans, not non-binary, not whatever else, just woman. We're getting so tangled up in labels and boxes and definition when it's so, so simple.
You don't have breasts? You're still a woman. You have masculine features? Still a woman! It's not an insult, and it's not bad to be a woman. You don't need to fit in a box or stick to stereotypes to label yourself as what you are. It's so freeing when you start to realize that being a woman isn't an act or a performance, it's just being your authentic true self, even if it's sometimes androgenous, or masculine, you're still a woman.

At the end of the day you call yourself what you want, but to me going above all those stupid categories and made up terms helped me so much to make peace with myself and what I went through.

Kinda disagree on that one, at least romantically speaking. Sexuality and attraction isn't really something you can control.
It's like when a middle aged married man turns trans, you can't blame his wife for struggling with it, not being attracted to the concept or even to him. She can be supportive and be there, but it doesn't negate her feelings, her confusion and her lack of attraction.
If the partner is gay, is attracted to masculinity, likes to go out with what appears to be a man, you can't fault him for that. He might have been ok with being with a female to male and what it might entail in their relationship, but being with a female that is presenting female is very different.

absolutely. I'm starting a biology degree next year and i'm far from savy in this departement but it always angered me how smug they'd be saying to very rational people who'd challenge their bullshit : "it's basic biology, go back to 8th grade". UH??? I'm sorry but either we didn't have the same curiculum in middle school, or you're just talking out of your ass, because at no point in middle school did the teacher tell us a human being could change sex like a fucking frog

Yes I have. I think it comes down to the reason as to why we transitioned in the first place, for FTM it's often due to struggling during puberty, societal pressures surrounding feminity, beauty standards, feeling unsafe because of womanhood, sexual trauma and sometimes not feeling special enough.

Detransioning in this fashion is to learn to overcome all of our biases towards what being a woman is, diconstructing our internalized misogyny and gender normes.
For MTF there seems to be more often than in FTM the fetish aspect, especially for AGPs, and internalized homophobia for homosexual males. I'm not as well versed on the reasons that push MTFs to detransition, but there's also the big fact that in most cases passing is nearly impossible, and being transexual in an adult active life is an obstacle.

i truly believe that as much as some doctors are shady as fuck and really don't give a fuck as long as they keep making banks (especially the plastic surgeons), the majority of doctors don't have much of a choice but to "validate". validate, validate, validate. We see it regularly, therapists can no longer challenge a patient's delusion regarding gender without risking backlash when it should be the center of the therapy. We don't encourage people with body integrity disorder to chop their limbs the minute they express the desire to do so. And it's scary because the less pushback there is with medical professionnal, the more people like you, like me, and many more will be allowed to make irreversible damages to our bodies, and once we wake up it's too late the damage has been done.
Doctors are not all knowing deities, they just go with the flow to keep their job. If the medical consensus is that furthering a mentally ill child's delusion, sterelizing and putting it on cross sex hormone when they haven't even finished puberty is the right thing to do, they'll do it. Nowdays even saying that is considered horrible and transphobic, hopefully in a few years things will have changed, and less people will have to suffer the same path.

If anybody answers to "what is a woman" with anything other than "adult female" i don't even want to hear it. It's not to diss anybody, it's just facts. Trans women are not women, they're trans women. Trans men are not men, they're trans men. The moment we blurred that line it went downhill.
Also yeah, that's to be accepted, sorry you're facing it. Either blindly agree and affirm or "shut up biggot".

It's never too late. You're never too far. Don't let the sunk cost fallacies drag you to the bottom. You're young, you have life ahead of you, you can enjoy existing and figuring out who and what you are without going against your biology. As much as I'm against medical transition, you can exist outside of the traditional female standard. It doesn't make you any less of a woman because you are one.