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Beyond aesthetics, transmasculine go after their identity

Beyond aesthetics, transmasculine go after their identity

They try everything that helps them hide their chest: they are faja with kinesiological or elastic bandages, which adjust as much as they can;Adapt tops and use the ‘trans tape’ or adhesive tape.

The sequelae are skin irritation, back pain and serious affectations for compression, which almost does not allow them to breathe.

Transmasculin are people assigned with the female gender at birth, for their genitals.But they identify with the masculine, so to live their identity they hide their breasts, they cut their hair, hormonize, etc..

For almost three years, the World Health Organization stopped locating transsexuality as a mental disorder.In its classification of diseases, gender incongruity - feeling of belonging to the opposite sex - was another mental involvement.But in 2018 he went to sexual health section.

Gabriel is 24 years old and the transition began six, he went from the feminine to the masculine.Wants to undergo a mastectomy (breast removal).But his work as an assistant in a veterinarian -by pandemia -is part -time.And you have not managed to save USD 3,000 to pay for surgery.

"The bust is the most conflictive zone for us.We seek to cover it, ”says Gabriel, who also hormonizes, so his face, back and legs look more wider.

At school he used elastic and gauze bandages, to hide his chest, which left bruises and a lot of back and chest pain.One day he passed out the lack of oxygen.

Más allá de estética, transmasculinos van tras de su identidad

José, 28, I would like someone to have given him openly information about the necessary implements to live his transition.

"I felt it was trans, but I found few data on the Internet," he recalls.So he decided to make and adapted tight tops, who did not fulfill their mission to hide the bust, and ‘tape’, which irritated their sensitive skin.

Sebastián Andrade, 24, was practiced mastectomy in 2017.But before he lived experiences similar to those of his friends.So in 2019 with Gabriel, with just USD 60, they started with a mission: to manufacture ‘Binters’, underwear, as a chest that compresses the chest.

The garment is used by those who seek a male or androgynous appearance.The trans boys who access it buy it abroad.

"We think about creating an affordable product.It is supercomún that we use a girdle, that hurts;Also uncomfortable, it does not let breathe or eat even, ”says Andrade.

Upon listening to those stories it seems that the end of belts and ‘binders’ was only aesthetic.But Édgar Zúñiga says no.He is coordinator of the Ecuadorian Psychology Network for LGBTI diversity.

To understand the transmasculin, Zúñiga proposes an empathy exercise.Let's think, ask, what it means and implies being a man.

“How do we like to look?If a biological man due to a medical circumstance began to leave breasts, how would he feel?Uncomfortable - replies - since it is something that does not correspond to a male body.And I would surely look for ways to hide it ".

“Transgender men feel persistent disagreement with their female corporality.That is why for the trans, puberty is a painful and even traumatic time, ”says Zúñiga, who comments that to hide the breasts are sold and cause muscle contractures, due to the great pressure they apply.

Iván Ramírez, plastic surgeon, performs mastectomy for gender change.Some patients arrive with dermatitis and contact dermatitis, due to the use of girdles.The ‘binders’ like those of the trans trans tandita, ”he says, are similar to vests, do not generate exaggerated pressure;I recommend them for the post operative.

“For transgender people it is an important step;I have operated even grandparents.I also usually make a lipaspiration, since they seek that their thorax is more masculine.You have to be careful in the shape of the halo ".

Another implement that trans children use is a penile prosthesis, the psychologist writes down.Not only do they give the illusion of the organ but they have a functionality, which allows them to urinate unemployed, in bathrooms.

Gabriel admits that sometimes he feels that people happen to them as a scanner."They check that we do not have chest, that we are muscular and look at us the crotch.".On many occasions when going to the toilet, he points, they call attention if they cannot use the urinary.That is why he, long ago, imported a prosthesis, which was expensive.

In Gabriel and Sebastián Trans store, there are ‘binders’ and prostheses.“We fail to find the hypoallergenic fabric;We use materials that do not damage the skin.We know, "they affirm- of the needs of other boys like us”.

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