I contacted the artist to ask if all of these vulvas were intact because I noticed some looked mutilated. She told me “Some are trans post op surgery.” I have a big problem with trans post ops being included in a “vulva diversity” video. Here’s why. 🧵
I contacted the artist to ask if all of these vulvas were intact because I noticed some looked mutilated. She told me “Some are trans post op surgery.” I have a big problem with trans post ops being included in a “vulva diversity” video. Here’s why. 🧵
The problem is most post op trans vulvas look like female genital mutilation. It is much harder to find post op photos today than in the past, but in 2019, I wrote a Quora post explaining how surgeons do a very poor job making these outcomes look like intact female vulvas.
If we incorporate post op trans vulvas into a cultural conception of “normal female anatomy” what we are doing is normalizing vulvas that look mutilated. I’m not trying to offend. I’m saying the cultural conception of a vulva needs do be that of an intact female vulva.