Letter Confirming Breast Reduction

Object/Artifact

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Museum of Transology

Letter from a surgeon to a GP confirming that a person has undergone a breast reduction.

Letter from a surgeon to a GP confirming that a person has undergone a breast reduction.

Name/Title

Letter Confirming Breast Reduction

Entry/Object ID

MOT/2024/NDOTC/BRIS/019

Tags

Bristol, Diagnosis, Hospital, Medical, Top Surgery, Pronouns

Collection

National Day of Trans Collecting

Category

Documentation

Dimensions

Height

297 mm

Width

210 mm

Depth

1 mm

Maintenance

Maintenance History

Notes

Bishopsgate Institute, London

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Tag Transcription

Notes

I chose to get a breast reduction as a trans masc (?) person. I never really heard of anyone doing that, just a few non-binary people I found on a facebook page. 3 years on I still think I made the right call, but society doesnt – even queer people don't get it sometimes, and I wory I appear "pre-top". I'm ashamed to admit I felt "more real/an official trans person" after medical intervention which is messed up. I wanted to [scribbled out word] submit this for two reasons: to show people that men can [scribbled out word] choose to have tits, [two scribbled out words] and partly because you can see them [scribbled out word] misgender me right under my Mr. [previous word underlined] affix. The care I recieved was ok at best, despite costing £7568, and I think it speaks to the small list of bad options we often have to chose from.