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razzek

1 year ago

I'm starting to feel about artistic depictions of trans scars the same way I feel about artistic depictions of blindness: they suck.

At first the art of all the jagged lined scars I saw for trans characters seemed neat. But then I started to remember that I have those scars and they don't look like that. At all. And it's kinda shitty to draw all these trans men and nbs in such a way that they look like someone took an axe to their chests. Mastectomy/top surgery scars don't look like that at all! Even when you have a slash and dash quick surgery like I did, the results are much nicer and most trans guys you can't even tell.

This is like drawing people with white/pale, unfocused eyes as a shorthand for blindness. It's a shitty stereotype and I think in the long run it causes more harm than good. Just like with real trans folks you may have to just say out loud that your guy is trans instead of giving him a design that's kinda shitty to the bros out there who went through some shit to look really good.

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Queer transgender trans masc mastectomy like for real I am five or six years post op can't actually remember anymore haha and the only way you know it is cuz my bones are kinda messed up from the weight I had to drag around also no nip nops XD but otherwise all the scar tissue is internal my surgeon was an awesome lady who actually had to operate twice cuz shit was that massive and she missed a huge chunk of it on one side o_o that was a hell of a summer XD I kinda envy all the boys who get to see doctors who do this for trans folks it sounds so cozy and nice I spent about a week total in hospital and lived with my sister for weeks after to recover it got done though and everyone who played a part made my life so much better <3 I will tell you my funny horrible top surgery stories if anyone wants XD razz rambles

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