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Oct 5, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
trans people who are planning face surgery: tell me which surgeon u got and I’ll tier them and give u reasons why
apologies to post op girls if I shit all over ur surgeon but someone’s gotta settle the score w these hacks. I’m sure they did good on u tho 😘
I’ve had work done by two surgeons.

One was Peter Raphael in Plano (chin/trach). My chin was bad before him so it was an improvement, but left me with a weak profile and a double chin. Left a lot in my trach. C tier. Avoid. Yellow is Raphael.

Next surgery below 1/
The white background is a combination of Jesus Baez (brow, nose, trach), Moises Guerrero (chin genioplasty), and Davenborn (BA)

Baez killed it w my nose which makes sense because that’s his specialty. Brow was decent BUT there were a few problems 2/
First, the procedure took several hours longer than it was supposed to. I think my forehead splintered during the shave and it required some reconstruction. Scary, but it came out ok.

However I lost fat above my right eye which I need a transfusion for. 3/
He offered to do the transfusion for free if I come back to him, but I think I’d rather go to someone whose specialty is eye symmetry like Mehryar Tahban.

Overall very happy with his work, but it’d be cool if I didn’t need this transfusion. S tier on nose, A tier on brow. 4/
My chin was done by Moises Guerrero. It was definitely an improvement on Raphael’s work which left me with a recessed chin and weak profile. But somethings up with the right side of my chin, which has a kind of bulge which isn’t present on my left side.

B tier 5/
My BA was done by a couple called Davenborn. They gave me 240 cc motiva Ergonomix implants under muscle and a fat transfusion from my thighs and abs to cleavage.

I’m happy with the work but one of my friends was left very unhappy with their work, so B tier 6/
What I’ve learned the most is to not just go to a one stop shop. Try to get surgeons to only work in their specialties. Surgeons like Raphael who just do everything are often not highly skilled at anything. 7/
There are exceptions. Mardirossian, DB, and Keo seem to be able to do great on all parts of the face, but I couldn’t afford them.

Don’t be afraid to do ur FFS in parts. Go to a nose guy. Go to a chin guy. Go to a BA guy. Surgeons really excel when they specialize.
I’m seeing a lot of different names but two that more people need to see are Adam Weinfeld in Austin and Hector Malagon in Mexico City.

I’ve seen nothing but great work from both of em. Hector does better brows but weinfeld does better noses. I’d reccomend consulting w them
And I mean this btw. Surgeons have good and bad results and if you like your surgeons work that obviously means you had a good result.

The negative reviews are more important than the positive ones, and they’re what I pay the most attention to.

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Sep 21, 2022
I’m a southern trans woman, but most of us don’t make it out of there alive. My childhood bff killed themselves before they had a chance to come out.

I’m one of the baby turtles who made it to the ocean, and I can’t forget the ones who didn’t.
At their funeral, the family hid the cause of death and had a preacher show up and talk about how they were saved and we needed to accept Jesus.

My friend was an atheist, and would’ve absolutely hated it. Even when our family members kill us, our deaths are about their feelings
Coming out in the south had a lot of people come out of the woodwork to contact me, because I was the only trans person they knew. They’d tell me they too were trans, and were hoping they’d be able to come out someday.

Most of them are still not out.
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Sep 19, 2022
in rural arkansas, when my parents found out I was taking estrogen (while boymoding), my dad formally resigned as an elder in the church and they made an announcement that I was to be totally shunned. Lifelong friends and family never talked to me again
I was very social, and had lots of people who respected me. I was connected in the community, coached basketball for 5 years and led worship on a regular basis.

I tried to tell them the scientific evidence for estrogen for gender dysphoria and they didn’t care
My dad was a doctor and I was talking to other medical professionals for support, and I expected them to at least back me up as to what the science says.

They all stayed silent, or even worse- they undercut everything I said with the Bible.
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Jun 21, 2022
Trans people are kept out of comedy spaces too.

The local clubs don’t book me despite my ability to sell out spaces in cities I’ve never been to. I made my own show because I had to if I wanted a stage.

Don’t tell me this shit ends at swimming. 1/
Since the beginning of my comedy career, I’ve been told to talk about something other than my trans perspective. That I needed to make my material more relatable to the average midwestern white middle classer

Never once occurred to these people my jokes aren’t for them 2/
If a cis comedian had the social media clout that I have, shitty clubs in Kansas City would definitely be offering me spots. They’d be considered the big name in the comedy scene.

But I’m trans, so none of this shit matters. It’s considered illegitimate. 3/
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Jun 19, 2022
the last time I talked to my dad was a few years ago when I called him a sorry excuse for a doctor and said he violated the Hippocratic oath by disowning his kid for following the medical consensus on the treatment of gender dysphoria

Nothin happy about fathers day for trans ppl
my dad graduating medical school reciting the oath to “do no harm” Image
Not only did he disown me, but he, using his position as an authority, told everyone from my community that there wasn’t a scientific basis for what I was doing.

Doctors can do a lot of damage with a lie
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May 26, 2022
Trans women need a safe space to meet other trans women that isn’t sad like a support group. They need a place where they can try cute new looks without fear. They need a place where they can party without knowing how to dance.

Solution: A trans-run comedy show. Hear me out 🧵
I know. Standup Comedy has a bad name. It’s earned it’s rep to the younger generation. So many of the biggest comics just kind of tell old, douchey, and white men what they want to hear.

But that comedy isn’t for us. It’s for people who tend to hate us.
Comedy isn’t Netflix specials. Netflix specials are a recording of comedy. Performing to big theaters isn’t as personal of a medium. I prefer comedy when it’s intimate.
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Apr 11, 2022
Republicans get an approval bump every time they hurt us. Democrats lose approval every time we’re in the news.

One party wants to exterminate us, and the other wants us to keep quiet.

The political situation for trans people in America is dire. We are in the frying pan.
Just gonna say it: if Biden had never supported trans people, he’d be better off from an approval standpoint.

If you listen to Christian conservative media (which I do occasionally) they run constant hit pieces about how Biden wants to erase women and wants everyone to be trans
It is very popular to criticize democrats for supporting trans people. Republicans are going to town on us every day, and it’s only going to get worse.
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