The Right’s Dumb Double Bind on Gender Surgeries

If you’re trans, the right wing media make clear, you’re damned if you do, and you’re damned if you don’t.

by Evan Urquhart

Nothing is more central to the transmisogynist hatred underpinning a huge amount of anti-trans bias than the idea that having a penis is (or ought to be) incompatible with being a real woman. Heedless of all the obvious arguments on the unique mouthfeel of girldick, according to the transphobes a penis is a man and a man is a penis.

This unrelenting shaming and stigma towards trans women who have their factory installed equipmentis a huge contributor to the urgency many feel about having surgery to remove the junk they started with and replace it with a lovely, brand new vagina. This is not to say that without such social pressure trans people would never undertake genital or any other intervention, as individuals make these sorts of personal medical decisions for a wide variety of reasons.

It does seem willfully cruel, though, for the same right wing press which mercilessly and cruelly insists that it’s not okay for trans women to live as women without surgery, to turn around and speak out of the other side of their mouths about the rare cases of younger trans women who do seek genital surgery.

Attempting to ban a procedure while also claiming it is essential for anyone who’s serious about transitioning is exactly the sort of thing you’d do if you wanted to ensure that no trans person could ever just live a quiet life, in peace, with whatever surgical interventions they and their medical team decided were necessary. The right’s goal seems to be to force trans women to keep their penises, all while claiming genital surgery is cosmetic and unnecessary rather than essential and life saving, then mock and humiliate those same trans women for not having had surgery. Infuriating! But, also, one more reason why you should never let transphobes determine how you feel about yourself, or how you feel about your body.

Mouthfeel!