[–] GFluidThrow123
Botched, like the TV show?
Those people all went to either surgeons who didn't know what they were doing, or they were going for drastic unrealistic goals, or like a slew of other bad decisions occurred along the way.
Your parents are being jerks. I got FFS 2 years ago and literally
everybody I tell about it is like "I literally can't tell you got plastic surgery."
You can go to the transgender surgeries subreddit and look at results for different surgeons too.
Plastic surgeons aren't butchers. Honestly, they're artists. And they're good at what they do. Don't go to one who has no history doing the procedures, and make sure you've seen results from them. But
if you're smart about it, you're not gonna come out botched.
Your parents probably come from a time where they're used to seeing horror stories.
But they need to stay away from the propaganda and do actual research.
Plus, you'll do consults and such first. You can always decide against it if you're not happy with what anyone's offering.
[–]FakeBirdFacts
I’ve seen botched, there are two types of patients on that show: regular people who had a bad surgery experience and people addicted to plastic surgery.
The regular people make up most of the show. Normally they’re people who go into plastic surgery with minimal research for things common procedures like “mommy makeovers” or following an accident like a dog attack. Occasionally, they’re people with birth defects who need further plastic surgery.
A lot of the regular people undergoing common procedures did medical tourism were botched due to malpractice. The accidents are often ones that require multiple surgeries and make good stories for television. The birth defects are rare, and are pretty straightforward building noses or chests that never existed in the first place.
The plastic surgery addicts are different. They come on the show with unrealistic expectations and are immediately turned away. They are often influencers and make money
off of their extreme surgeries. They are on the show to self promote, and the show uses them to draw in viewers. We may see them as botched or “overdone,” but their requests are often unrelated to their issues that we see as botched.
They come in making extreme requests such as getting ribs removed. It’s partially dysmorphia, partially for fame.
Television shows like this use the money and viewership from the addicts to fund the surgeries of the regular people. Is it ethical? Highly debatable. The answer is probably no. But that’s how the show functions.
With your parents, they’re paranoid and scared and want you to watch it because they’re scared you’ll become a plastic surgery addict. They don’t know how much research we do as trans people and that are goals are often pretty realistic. Also, people often only recognize plastic surgery when it
is overdone, and that’s what plastic surgery is in their mind.
I don’t see anything wrong with
you watching the show, outside of the debatable ethics of reality TV. I think you can have the conversation with them about the nature of the show and who shows up on it, but
you’d be better off being clear that your goals are realistic and that you’re doing your proper research.