Sounds like they had really bad gender dysphoria if they resorted to cutting off their penis. I'll admit I've wanted to do it myself many times, but was never able to go through with it physically. I still occasionally have weak desires to do it but my dysphoria is much better these days due to how much it has shrank on estrogen.
Sometimes when dysphoria is really bad and access to gender affirming care is denied, there isn't much choice. It's sad and scary that for some of us this is how it must be but that's just the way things are sometimes.
My thoughts exactly, I'd have to guess they had severe bottom dysphoria, I've had friends who did it for the same reason, no mushrooms though, they just did it out of their sheer desire to no longer have a penis attached to them. Gender dysphoria is no joke and really sucks. I probably would've done it too if the Estrogen hadn't shrunken it so much (and the fact that I'm a wuss when it comes to blood and pain).
No but I've wanted to real bad from gender dysphoria, didn't have it in me to get through to do more than a surface level cut before the blood and pain got to me. For not having one myself I am a pussy when it comes to blood and pain ☹️
Seriously why? It feels like they think it's really funny, to make us try and present feminine to get what we need to feel better. Like it's a fetish to see what they think is a man dressed as a woman asking for estrogen. My doctor and therapist called me he/him even though I told him she/her multiple times, I practically yelled at him for his repeated misgendering, he didn't care.
I wish I knew why doctors and therapists put these ridiculous requirements on people. It's not like people are taking estrogen recreationally, like for real what is this for. Also how does me wearing a dress when I have face stubble and a masculine body prove I "feel like a woman" dumb fucks just want to see what they think is a man wearing a dress. It's obvious they believe I'm a man. I wasn't willing to degrade myself or sink to that level, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. I got DIY, was the only option left that didn't involve degrading myself for those pigs and still getting denied anyway.
I'm sorry, I've had a bad day lately and I was recently reminded of this shit.
Yeah body horror can be very relatable in many ways, because in the same way they are turning into something unpleasant and grotesque, to many of us, our assigned sex at birth carries very similar feelings.
I'm very happy too. Though it's hard being on DIY since I have to be careful and the changes have been slower than normal. Really wish I had been able to do it officially but I guess getting HRT without degrading yourself is too much to ask ☹️.
I have a feeling it could've been gender dysphoria. I've known people who did that to themselves because of penis dysphoria and they weren't on mushrooms, it's likely they did this to themself for similar reasons and just happened to be on mushrooms.
I never had this experience even back when I started, and I'm DIY, don't get blood tests either so I just have to be careful. And no I won't go the official way, because where I am they expect me to degrade myself and prove I am a "real woman" because people totally take estrogen recreationally when they aren't really women 🙄. I didn't go out as a "man in a dress" because that would've just given me dysphoria, probably what they wanted, so DIY it is for me, yay 😒.
Because for many of us it's lifesaving. I still really want it but I want it less than I did before since HRT has shrunk my penis substantially, before I literally wanted to cut my penis off and I fantasized a lot about doing it. I had friends who actually did, and they still ended up killing themselves bc of it. Bottom surgery saves lives.
Don't be a jerk and just treat us as you would treat any other woman. It's not hard, if it feels hard maybe you might not be as nice of a person as you think you are.
Sometimes it do be necessary for some of us. Lucky for me mine shrunk a lot on E, or I very well might've done what they did.
Edit: Transphobic dipshit downvoter has no understanding of just how bad it can be to have gender dysphoria. I hope you never have to feel just how truly awful it feels like to be born in the wrong body and feel out of place in life. It sucks royally.
I have a feeling they had some serious penis dysphoria, and were using the mushrooms as a coverup so they could cut it off without being outed. I had friends who had dysphoria that bad and couldn't get bottom surgery due to expense or transphobic doctors and they took matters into their own hands, sadly for many it wasn't enough and they took their own lives because of the dysphoria.
It feels really shitty that people are mocking this person for this or saying they're crazy, dysphoria is no joke, and if E hadn't shrunk mine as much as it did I may have done the same as where I live I can't get bottom surgery unless I can "prove I'm a woman", I wouldn't even have been able to get on estrogen if I didn't DIY it for the same stupid reason. Thank goodness for grey-market estrogen online.