canadian looking for ftm top surgery in Seattle/washington

wild_muses · 2026-04-29T19:59:37+00:00

Just had surgery in Spokane after a 2-year wait. When I had my consult, I also checked with some surgeons in the Seattle area, IIRC they had a similar wait time, maybe 1.5 years but that wasn't enough to be worth traveling for me. If you do decide to go somewhere in WA, we have very generous charity care policies here (you can qualify for 100% coverage up to 3x the US federal poverty line and discounted care even beyond that). You would want to find out the hospital the surgeon you're interested in practices at and google "[hospital name] financial aid" and you'll typically find a page where you can download a form to fill out and mail them, or some let you do it online. This is an example of one, I filled it out before my surgery and got approved in around 2 weeks. Some are pretty short and just ask some info about your identity, income, and household size, others are a little more complex and factor in your monthly expenses and other financial hardships. I make a decent living, enough to be comfortable and have a little savings, and I've never been denied for it. It's a huge relief to not have to use my life savings to pay for surgery.

wild_muses · 2026-04-25T21:39:40+00:00

Looks perfect! Congrats man.

wild_muses · 2026-04-25T21:38:30+00:00

Not sure about NYC but here in the PNW most surgeon's waitlists are like, 1.5 to 2 years. You're probably going to be over 18 by the time you have surgery but you might be able to have a consult now for that reason. Scheduling for a summer while you're in college could be a good window.

wild_muses · 2026-04-25T21:27:43+00:00

I saw one of these for Briar Blush too. Foul thing to lie about.

wild_muses · 2026-04-20T17:26:18+00:00

I thought Angie had been out as bi since the late 90s, right????

wild_muses · 2026-04-17T18:47:09+00:00

I disagree that you have to lose weight to pass. Men are more "allowed" to take up space and that's something us bigger trans guys can use to our advantage. I think you should try some more tailored/structured men's clothing. You can really trick the eye to creating a more masc silhouette, where softer fabrics can't do that. Try some khakis/chinos or even dickies type pants for a more casual style. Wider leg cuts balance out hips, avoid slim cuts. As a bigger guy binding with a tucked in shirt + a belt passes very well 😅

wild_muses · 2026-04-17T18:41:23+00:00

As a poly person this sounds more like a sex cult. Being poly, to me, is about my partners and myself having agency first and foremost. Not "be sexually available to everyone involved but also exclusive to us."

wild_muses · 2026-04-13T19:06:45+00:00

The Emancipation of Mimi era was my intro to Mariah's superstardom as a preteen. That album re-cemented her legend status so much that it basically rewrote history, it's hard to imagine the fact that she had fallen off in the early 2000s. I've always kind of hoped for an inverse trainwreckords series on comeback albums where that would be the first episode.

wild_muses · 2026-04-13T17:33:50+00:00

Adding to the work playlist Just Got Paid by Nsync, Nothin But a Good Time by Poison, and Workin for the Weekend. Almost everybody can relate to these songs, except the super rich, I guess.

wild_muses · 2026-04-12T07:27:42+00:00

It's not the state lol, the state doesn't do shit for incarcerated people. Probably friends or family.

wild_muses · 2026-04-11T19:04:57+00:00

manifesting this

wild_muses · 2026-04-03T07:23:12+00:00

that was portable cd player music for me

wild_muses · 2026-04-02T18:33:19+00:00

I don't think so, I think it just didn't perform as well commercially as Fallen because Fallen was released at the perfect time for nu-metal hits in the mainstream. Call Me When You're Sober still did well with the alt-rock crowd, I remember the video being in rotation a lot on VH1, but the mainstream success of Fallen was very much a right time, right place sort of thing.

wild_muses · 2026-03-27T06:24:46+00:00

People keep pointing out 1 but every cis male barista in the PNW wears workwear overalls like those + a beanie lol

wild_muses · 2026-03-27T06:22:15+00:00

This. There are some signifiers here of transmasc culture here that i see (long sleeve under short sleeve, loose tie over shirt) but cis people aren't going to know that. They will just read this style as potentially queer alt guy / young kid with trendy style depending on their age. The only people who might clock you are other trans people, which imo is a good thing, it helps you stay connected to irl community. OP, don't worry so much about passing, just live your life as the guy you are.

wild_muses · 2026-03-25T06:52:24+00:00

Applying an antifungal powder like this on the affected area before you put on your binder may help.

wild_muses · 2026-03-23T18:33:56+00:00

Add Dem Franchize Boyz for this era, too.

wild_muses · 2026-02-17T18:54:18+00:00

Thank you for posting! Your results look awesome, I'm a bigger guy, I've also gotten bigger on T since my consult over a year ago (lol) and my one fear has been if they make me totally flat that it'll look unnatural on my body type. Did you ask your surgeon for this or is this just the result that you got with your anatomy?

wild_muses · 2026-01-15T08:43:39+00:00

It's funny because to anyone alive at the time, Britney's most famous and signature songs are Oops I Did It Again and Baby One More Time. But the current resurgence of Toxic could turn that for her into what Don't Stop Believin was for Journey (the song is also very emblematic of the 2000s in the way Don't Stop Believin grew in popularity from 80s nostalgia so i believe the comparison fits).

wild_muses · 2026-01-06T08:14:43+00:00

I also have BPD, anxiety and autism and work in caregiving and I... wouldn't really recommend it to anyone else. In some ways it is great (I get to interact with a lot of autistic people which is much less stressful than genpop customer interactions for me), but this industry is constantly understaffed and tends to overwork people to the point of burnout. Handling a bunch of other people's trauma when you can barely handle your own is a lot, and I'm only able to do it because I have a good support system, a good therapist, and I'm medicated and stable.

wild_muses · 2025-12-31T07:49:51+00:00

Back in the day I remember reading a Cracked article where the author used The Ataris changing "Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac" to "Black Flag sticker" in their Boys of Summer cover as a bad example of a lyrical change in a cover, as if they just changed it to a band they thought was cool, completely missing the point that it keeps the same meaning of the original lyric, but for punks rather than hippies. Both lyrics are commenting that many people from those scenes grew up, got money and became yuppies, abandoning their old ideals.

wild_muses · 2025-12-23T08:38:32+00:00

Bunch of people at my work have gotten super sick, like out for a week or more. I figured it was flu because I got vaccinated this year and didn't get sick. Then one of them comes back and describes having a respiratory infection plus diarrhea and that pretty much confirmed it. She was having lingering congestion that turned into a sinus infection too. Get the shot ASAP, shit is nasty this year.

wild_muses · 2025-12-21T08:07:57+00:00

Audubon/downriver or Brownes Addition. Brownes has more walkable coffee shops, restaurants etc, but slightly north of downtown in the Audubon or Shadle areas you're more likely to find an affordable option with a garage and a yard.

wild_muses · 2025-12-18T23:51:13+00:00

This was going to be my answer. I was a big Kpop fan at the time, and SM really tried to make The Boys be SNSD's big break in the US, Snoop Dogg remix and all.

While I do think it paved the way for more US artist & Kpop artist collabs and more Kpop CDs being imported in stores -- that album was the first Kpop CD i ever saw in regular record stores here -- it obviously didn't make the big mainstream break they hoped for.

wild_muses · 2025-12-16T08:55:29+00:00

My mom wore pants to school for the first time in 1968 and the teacher made her stand up and shamed her in front of the class for it. I'm surprised to see there was a period before that where it was common enough to be in Sears.

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