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Listening to Let Go by BTS while being sad about minecraft diaries is crazy bc actually fuck off
You know what? Fuck it. Iām 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 wasnāt 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 doesnāt seem he works on trans people anymore and is no longer offering phalloplasty, and I desperately hope heās not. It was clear he didnāt know what the fuck he was doing, and the urologist was complacent and didnāt 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 Iām waiting for a complete redo using a different graft site with a new doctor, who has taken on many of Cetruloās 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 didnāt 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 didnāt 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, weāre 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 heās 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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Do you see how shocked he was? First it was with the sunglasses and now this? I understand they were in a hurry, how there is literally a fucking mob due to disrespectful people that call themselves āfansā or āengenesā but do you really need to grip onto him like that? NO. You really donāt.
You could see how scared he was, even though he maybe wanted to hide it behind that usual smile he has, but you can CLEARLY see he was shocked when that manger/bodyguard gripped onto his arm. Itās fucking ridiculous how much mistreatment Sunoo gets. (Including the others but from what I can see itās Sunoo with this specific individual.)
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DONāT BE A SHEEP: A LESSON ABOUT TRUST FROM YOUR OLDER SISTER ON TUMBLR.
if anyone here is trying to defend taeil, please feel free to unfollow and block me right now. itās true that i never would have thought he could do something so disgusting and vile. itās true that he hasnāt been trialled and found guilty by the court as of yet. but thereās a difference between rumours spread by netizens and an official statement released by the company.
we donāt know these people. we donāt know what goes on behind the cameras when no one is looking. there is absolutely no reason for us to believe everything that they tell us, and i am not going to blindly follow someone just because they were my comfort person, or my fave, or whatever. remember that people like taeil are meant to make us love them. theyāre meant to put on a mask. theyāre meant to make us follow them, to worship the ground they walk onāthatās why theyāre called idols. but we canāt afford to let our own bias cloud our ability to see the truth.
think of me as an older sister for a second, giving you advice from the bottom of my heart. i really hope that any young followers of mine who may be seeing this, and especially any young girls, would please remember this: as someone who has seen for themselves just how easy it is for people we trust wholeheartedly to betray usāthink for yourself, do not follow people without thought. not every person is going to hurt you, but not every person is as kind as you think. so never trust the imagine that people show youāespecially if theyāre entertainers, and especially if theyāre men.