THE VICTIMS’ HEARTBREAKING TWEETS

Thomasin Pick wrapped tight material around her breasts, a process known as ‘binding’, to flatten her chest.

I binded for two years. I have dents where my binders used to dig under my arms. My chest area is often painful (to touch and in general). My breathing isn’t fantastic when pain is flared up.

‘Maggie’ said she learnt surgery wasn’t ‘a golden ticket’ after undergoing a mastectomy.

It was hard for me to learn about the structure of the breasts and lymph nodes, nerve damage, hematoma, post-mastectomy pain syndrome, keloid scarring, or the feeling of phantom breasts post-surgery. We could have a full understanding on gender dysphoria if we listened to detransitioners.

‘Arden’ wrote that she would never experience life as a ‘regular adult woman’ after undergoing a hysterectomy aged 20.

I really thought it would fix my life. There was never any encouragement to love my body. I don’t know how to deal with that loss. Numbness where my skin used to feel electric, scars in place I couldn’t imagine allowing a surgeon go near now. Sometimes I will catch myself day-dreaming of a future where somehow it’d all be undone.