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[sophia_sol]

Getting gender-related surgeries covered by provincially-funded health care, while significantly easier than it apparently used to be, is still.....a pain. And I don't love that it means the government knows I'm trans.

BUT.

I'm getting my boobs chopped off!!!

I finally have a SURGERY DATE and it's HAPPENING. I mean, it's happening in January, which is approximately forever away, especially since I've been working on this for 9 whole months already. But still!

I'm super excited. I've never wanted to have breasts. I've been binding full time for several years now and although I'm glad that's been a possibility for me, binding for the rest of my life was just an exhausting thought. But now I have an end date for both binders and breasts! I will be free!

YAY!

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[pauraque]

Oh yay!!! I'm so happy for you that you're getting to do this, and get it paid for.

I was binding for over ten years before surgery, and I absolutely know what you mean about it being exhausting to have to keep doing it. It was such a huge pain, inconvenience, time-waster, and (for me) a constant source of dysphoria.

Even though I knew 100% that I wanted top surgery, I was still somehow surprised by how smooth an adjustment it was for me. I wondered what I would feel like after, but it was like... oh, okay, I feel normal now, this is good, time to move on with life. It also surprised me that I pretty quickly... kinda forgot what it felt like before? Even after all those years of binding, all those unwanted sensations and discomfort just melted away and I could barely remember them. An unexpected but welcome outcome!

I'm sure you have your own resources but feel free to message me if you ever want another perspective on the process or anything. Good luck and I hope the wait goes by fast!

[sophia_sol]

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experiences, I really appreciate it. Knowing that you know and understand what I'm going through is a lovely feeling ♥ I really hope I have the same sort of reaction you do post-surgery, where things just feel normal and right, finally!

And I will keep in mind your much-appreciated offer to talk things over and I may well take you up on it :)