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[–]LasagnaRossa 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Worse, they're seen as a badge of courage and coolness, the ultimate symbol that "I'm not like other girls."

I wonder if these girls hate breasts because they're the symbol of sexualization. "Remember girl, you're not a person first, you're an eye candy, a fucktoy".

[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've also seen multiple detransitioners who no longer wanted to be male but loved their double mastectomy and did feel it relieved all their dysphoria. I understand completely why girls would hate their breasts, even if I don't think taking them off is the first go-to.

Meanwhile, I notice that multiple detransitioned females first loved their changing voice and now it's their biggest issue/regret. I figured maybe it is at first loved as sign of regaining control over your body after the turbulence of puberty, a traumatic event for everyone. Not capital T traumatic, but something that happens to you quickly that you have no control of and changes everything around you. But after it's a big reminder of how you chose to do something to your body that you didn't fully understand.

[–]MarkTwainiac 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've also seen multiple detransitioners who no longer wanted to be male but loved their double mastectomy and did feel it relieved all their dysphoria. I understand completely why girls would hate their breasts, even if I don't think taking them off is the first go-to.

Growing and having breasts can be disturbing and distressing for girls for a host of social reasons. My hunch is that when ASD amongst females is better studied and understood, it might emerge that the experience of growing breasts also causes special sensory issues for girls with autism or autistic traits.

Puberty for girls really is hard: it brings bleeding on a regular basis from one part of our body, often with painful cramps and unpleasant physical symptoms like sore breasts and water weight gain beforehand. Plus two new appendages pop out of our chests - entirely on their own, whether we want them to or not.

Males' penises and balls grow in puberty, and the testicles drop too. And they get spontaneous boners and have wet dreams that are embarrassing, confusing and often distressing to them. But males don't grow two new body parts in puberty - only females do.

[–]lefterfield 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Could also be in part because of the novelty of it. But then they start to realize that it's permanent.