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i actually have jesus's foreskin. i keep it in a little plastic container. once i get phalloplasty im gonna sew it onto my penis and become the anti-christ.
You know what? Fuck it. I’m a transgender man, I had abdominal phalloplasty with Dr Curtis Cetrulo in Boston. He sold dozens of trans people on a new method of abdominal with all these promises of good sensation, good aesthetics, minimal scarring, and urethral lengthening without an arm graft (which is typically needed in abdo phallo for people who want urethral lengthening). I started having surgery with him in 2021 and had my SIXTH surgery with him early last year. For reference, phallo is often done in 3-4 surgeries, give or take with repairs/revisions and different surgical plans. When I consulted, he told me four surgeries, which then turned to five. And somehow turned to six and I still wasn’t done! I had thick knots of scar tissue and no sensation at all, not to mention I never even had a neourethra constructed. The plan was constantly changing and I made the mistake of trusting him and trusting the process.
In August last year he left Boston and moved to California to continue operating. It doesn’t seem he works on trans people anymore and is no longer offering phalloplasty, and I desperately hope he’s not. It was clear he didn’t know what the fuck he was doing, and the urologist was complacent and didn’t have proper training either. Cetrulo was allowed to experiment on us, under the guise that it was a successful and fully developed method of phalloplasty. He was not honest about its completion. And when it started to catch up with him, he abandoned his remaining patients and moved across the country. With NO repercussions for the way he treated us.
Now I’m waiting for a complete redo using a different graft site with a new doctor, who has taken on many of Cetrulo’s former patients.
See this article? It talks about all accomplishments and his innovations for people with skin burns and other injuries requiring microsurgical work. No mention of the transgender people he treated. The dozens of people he lied to and disfigured. What about us? Why does he get to pretended he didn’t ruin the lives of so many people. I am permanently disfigured because of the work he did on me. I have to live with that medical trauma from a man who didn’t really care about me, who dodged questions, and was inconsistent and unreliable.
And why is he getting away with it? This Harvard grad with a superiority complex. Because 1, we’re transgender, and the medical system has a history of failing us. Cetrulo is comparable to Kathy Rumer and Butcher Brown. Bailey Sarian has a video on Dr Butcher Brown, I recommend giving it a watch if you have an interest in true crime. And number 2, the medical boards and medical systems are fucked up.
I want my trans and nonbinary (etc) friends to know what he did to our community. The damage he’s done. And the lack of consequences for his actions. Word of mouth is so so important in LGBT spaces when it comes to medical care, ESPECIALLY in bottom surgery spaces.
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I may pursue phallo in the future, but I'm a bit of a fence sitter.
trigger warning: TMI, dysphoria and talk of genitals, obviously. thought I'd give the option to opt out of the rest of my addition to this post.
I'm salmacian, but am also unsure if I want to go down that route or the 'complete' bottom surgery route, i.e. hysterectomy, scrotoplasty and vaginectomy as well as the dick. The thing is, I don't really want a hysterectomy because having a uterus and shit is metal as fuck (it's funny, I used to want to rip apart my body to get that stuff out with my own hands), but I'm not a big fan of the Hole (trademark) at times and find myself fantasizing about just being born with a dick. On the other hand, I am allergic to adhering to normativity even when it comes to sex characteristics, and if I were to get bottom surgery I have half a mind to preserve the hole to achieve that, even if it's a completely useless wound on me.
I'm also just worried about complications.
hey a quick shout out to transmascs who want to get a phalloplasty. mfs are so toxic to you for wanting a dick which imo is stupid as shit. live ur life!! u deserve your dick!!!! don’t let mfs who don’t understand judge u for vibing!!!!!! I hope your current or future healing goes well and it makes you love yourself even more than you currently do
Am the one who's noticed how fucking weird people get about transmasc bottom surgery?
There's a ridiculous amount of body shaming and fear mongering about phalloplasty and metoidioplasty and I feel like I'm the only one who ever talks about it. The constant "well it's not a real penis/it's not a cis penis/ect" drives me nuts.
Especially when someone is talking about how they WANT bottom surgery and someone butts in like "l just don't think it fits my ✨aesthetic✨" as if anyone asked how much they hate phallo/metoidio
Have you noticed this?? Please tell me you have, I can't be the only one who finds it weird. It's actually incredibly disheartening as someone who wants metoidio to constantly see. If I said half the shit I see said about phallo/metoidio, about vaginoplasty instead people would lose it
I don't know how the hell I missed this message, but it's possible I saw it and didn't know how to reply at the time (I also have the tendency to have things slip my mind if I don't address it quickly enough). regardless, I have indeed noticed the behavior you're referring to. I, myself, have been affected by the rampant fearmongering around phallo/metoidio to the point that it affects my desire to get bottom surgery. That fucking sucks. I wish people could stop making those of us with bottom dysphoria feel like we'll never get a sufficient solution to the problem.