looking for a specific personal essay on unconventional gender affirming care & surgery :boost_ok: 

Hey fedi, can you help me out? A while ago, maybe earlier this year or even last year--I won't swear to this time range, my long-term sense of time is fucky--I read an article written by someone who had gone on estrogen for transition care and then got top surgery to remove (yes that's right, remove) their breasts.

I've been wanting to reread this essay and pass it around to trans and nonbinary friends, but I did not save it at the time *kicks self* and have had zero (0) luck searching for it. I'd love to find it again for sheer reading pleasure, it was a really well-written essay fiercely and eloquently speaking about the meaning of bodily autonomy and how gender affirming care shouldn't be boxed into cisnormative binary categories.

Other fragmented recollections:
- The doctors who worked on the surgery were excited at the unprecedented challenge, saying something like "Oh wow, we never see something like this!" I tried to quote-search with fragments and variations of that, also to no avail.
- The author might have been Jewish?

Has anyone come across this essay? I'm 90% certain I followed a link on the fedi. Does it still exist on the web? I didn't imagine the whole thing, did I?

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looking for a specific personal essay on unconventional gender affirming care & surgery :boost_ok: 

@ljwrites i hope you find it bc that sounds like q fascinating essay!

looking for a specific personal essay on unconventional gender affirming care & surgery :boost_ok: 

@Satsuma So do I, a couple of people expressed interest in reading it too and I hope to find it for their sake as well 🤞

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