Weight Limits For GRS
Nobody seems to talk about this
When I brought it up with my doctor
They just kind of nodded, somberly.
The plastic surgeon I met with
Decided two weeks before surgery
That “the anesthesiologist
On his surgery team
Didn’t want to operate on me
Unless I lost 10-15 pounds
In the next ten days.”
They stated this as a simple fact
That anyone would be able to do
Any simple fatty could easily lose
10 pounds or more !!
In less than 2 weeks—
Of course !!!!
It’s so easy, I mean
Everybody has done that
Everybody.
Every skinny bitch who
Never eats
Avoids ten pounds a week
At least— right?!
That’s how weight loss works
To these people—
Fat people eat enough to maintain
Massive figures, and skinny people
Eat enough to maintain
Skinny figures.
Not sure how that matches up
With reality
Or with anyone’s actual experience
But in fantasy thin person world
If you aren’t fat— your diet is
Working !!!! Congrats!!!!
If you are fat—
Well—
You must be eating in secret. Or constantly
Or at night when no one is watching
You must order pizza
Or fries
Or any of the terrible glutton foods
That only gluttons eat, right?!?!
Oh wait— people of
All shapes and sizes eat
All kinds of diets…?
Well— not according
To the anesthesiologist
Who determined whether or not
My transition would be delayed
Another 6-9 months.
This was no minor setback
By the time I had finally
Found a new surgeon, I found
One of the three practices
In the United States
That has a protocol for top surgery
That is BMI inclusive
Only three surgeons
In the United States
Are willing to cut the tits off of
Fat trans bodies—
So yes
Please
Tell me again
How thin privilege doesn’t exist
How fat discrimination
Doesn’t matter
How this is all in my head
And not in your own denial
Fat discrimination
Is so endemic
No one can imagine a world without it
—
BTW
The reason they have weight limits
Is because of a study they did
On tummy tucks
Not even double mastectomy
A completely different surgery
With completely different outcomes
With completely different risks
Having the same rules applied
So that the surgeons don’t get sued
In case fatty dies on the table—
It can’t be their fault, it’s always
The junk carcass they had to carve
The flesh they remove with disdain in the very scalpel they use
—
Anyway, I found a better surgeon
I found a better situation
But the experience of being
Checked in, measured, drawn on
Prepped for surgery— asked for time off work
Got the entire thing setup
All to go to my 10 day preop appointment
And be told
I was too fat to have surgery —
All while I weighed
The exact same amount
I did when I had my consultation—
That experience, well
That experience almost killed me.
I haven’t been more close to suicide
Than I was the day I was denied too surgery
At my pre-surgery appointment
That I had made with all the plans in advance
Everything set, all the prep ready
I came home to a post surgery binder
And an incline pillow
I didn’t need
Never in my life did I want to die
So completely, never before
Did I want to give up on everything
Never before did I feel that
Transitioning
Wasn’t for me, until I was told
Quite literally
That it wasn’t.
So yes, please
Nice bisexual white thin presumably non-binary person
Tell me about how silly it is
To talk about fat issues
Tell me how silly it is
To say “thin privilege”
Tell me about how
Fat discrimination
Doesn’t exist, and how
The world doesn’t wish
Fat people didn’t exist.