My Transgender Year Without Tits
Scar care, posture, shirtlessness, buoyancy changes, and more!
Happy Pride Month!
On June 1st, 2023, I underwent a double-incision bilateral mastectomy with no nipple grafts, performed by Dr. Lawrence Iteld in Chicago. I wrote previously about the process of selecting a surgeon and my pre-operative experience here, and the first few week of recovery (which I found to be shockingly simple and painless!) here.
When this essay drops, I will have spent my first full year without tits! (And nipples!) I’ve been free of surgical drains and dressings for over eleven months, and, after a couple months of consistent silicon tape applications, I have been walking around with my scars proudly exposed consistently. In the past several weeks, I’ve even started taking my bare chest to the tanning salon, without placing any protective covering over the scars.
(My surgeon would probably yell at me for that, but hey, he also said that “men of our age should be wearing tons of sunscreen everywhere,” and that’s a tip I can abide…
