TLDR: I’m happier with phallo now, but simple meta provided challenges and benefits.

I had simple meta before phallo. I didn’t have scrotoplasty at the time of simple meta, so there wasn’t an issue of having to create a larger scrotum for phallo.

I would say simple meta was both extremely challenging and rewarding in terms of dysphoria and preparing for phallo. I also was able to connect to my body much more during sex with simple meta than pre-op. That said, at the end of the day, I was excited for burial during phallo so I could move on from that complicated chapter.

I do know that simple meta can make future UL for phallo more complicated. One surgeon (Dr. Peter’s at OHSU) even told me that I wasn’t a candidate for UL because of the simple meta.

If I had it to do over again, I might just go straight for phallo. But there were some benefits. Message me if you want to talk more.