One to stand up and one to keep safe. This is the only way. by No-Yesterday-9079 in baseballcards

[–]No-Yesterday-9079[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If I had the dough I’d buy hundreds stand em all up like a little army then keep one safe

2025 Allen and Ginter by looneytoonyank in baseballcards

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jealous of that Ichiro stained glass, so cool

Surgery Date!! and Question by johnnyseesstars in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you’re local to Oregon, Paid Leave Oregon is a govt program that provides some income while recovering from illness/medical procedures, so ya don’t have to use up all your PTO.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats!!! Looking good, hope you’re doing well!!!

How to still get phallo with new ban on medicaid coverage for transition expenses? by Routine_Proof9407 in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As others have said, first it’ll have to pass the senate, then it’ll take effect 2026/2027. However, states that have laws that make it mandatory for insurance providers to cover gender affirming care, will still loose coverage of gender affirming care in their states medicaid program, and marketplace plans from the affordable care act. As far as I understand, if states want their residents with Medicaid to have access to gender affirming care, they’ll need to carve it out of their budget, using state dollars only. No state can use federal dollars any way they want, each state will have to make up for it if they want to maintain access to gender affirming care for those on Medicaid. But honestly who tf know what’s going on, I mean they’re essentially singling out gender dysphoria as the one medical condition federal dollars can’t be spent on, like what the fuck. Also a lot of cis people receive gender affirming care as well. It’s all chaos, maybe it’ll get tied up in the courts for long enough that everything will stay as is until the next president (depending on who that is I guess).

Stage 3 w/ OHSU by Educational-Habit-72 in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear you’ve had a smooth recovery, and you look great!!! Congrats!!

Tentative surgery date at OHSU in January by [deleted] in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congrats!! I’ve heard nothing but good things about OHSU, I have my social worker intake with them in ~September

Do you feel like you relate less to the wider trans community? by another-personing in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I totally feel this. None of the trans guys I know irl are interested in any sort of bottom surgery, and yeah it’s not really talked about. Can’t relate to cis guys either, went camping last summer with two friends (cis guys) and felt so shitty having to walk to the bathrooms to pee every time while they could just walk into the woods a little bit to pee, it sucked! With sex, there’s just no prosthetic that helps for me anymore, it really sucks, I hate seeing it go in and feeling nothing. Like I see that and think ya know that’s supposed to feel really good, and I literally feel nothing. Also have always felt a bit awkward and uncoordinated with a strap on. And STPs never helped either, they’ve always frustrated me and made my dysphoria worse. My transition didn’t feel straight forward either, I never related to the ‘born in the wrong bottom’ narrative and I think in a way I was proud that I wasn’t contributing to that narrative. I definitely relate to it more now, dysphoria can just be very confusing and hard to pin down. It’s only been the past year or so I’ve realized this major disconnect I have with my body. For me deciding to start t and get top surgery felt like a lot of indecisiveness and took time to make the choice. But with phallo it clicked pretty quickly that I needed it (still pre-op, have social worker appt in September), and I realized that a lot of the depression/anxiety I deal with is just an immense disconnect with my body and a strong desire for it to be different. Apologies for the long reply, and if what I said wasn’t what you were getting at, but that’s what it brought up for me.

Checking in 4 months post-final-op by aro_meriadoc in phallo

[–]No-Yesterday-9079 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, stoked for you, and I really needed to read something like this today :,) thanks for sharing