I am pretty sure it's not just that sub. Even if that sub disappeared tomorrow Penny Oaken would just move to taking down the next sub that allows frank discussions of botched surgeries and other negative experiences with medical transitions. He also seems to have a huge rageboner for the sub /r/itsafetish but given that he's an admitted OCDer I am sure his compulsion to put things in their place when he perceives them to be out of order is not limited to /r/NeovaginaDisasters or /r/itsafetish. He might start there but his bloodthirst will not be quenched. Because of the OCD Penny has to put the whole of Reddit in perfect order just like the bottles in his fridge, one sub at a time. I basically want to see /u/Bardfinn pre-emptively banned on every sub he might try to target with the weaponized OCD.
I must stress and underline: AFAICT Penny has not had any surgeries yet. I have read a lot of his tweets and Reddit messages and all he ever talks about is the HRT making him cry at the drop of a hat. So this asshole, who AFAIK is pre-op, now wants to censor all the trans people who are post-op and want to discuss their complications. I bet Penny will try to go after
TobyMeltzer.com next, since that website features nothing but descriptions and pictures of botched SRS surgeries. It's not like this material is hard to find.
Here is the kind of post that Penny Oaken wants to make disappear from Reddit completely:
"Brassard invented the one-stage scam. You see, years ago, MTF GRS was not synonymous with vaginoplasty. GRS was a two-stage procedure which consisted of a vaginoplasty followed by a labiaplasty once you've healed from the first stage. Getting GRS means getting both stages done. All the older doctors did GRS this way, and IIRC Meltzer is the only one of that generation still practicing. When Brassard came along, he announced that he can do all of GRS in one stage and advertised himself as a one-stage surgeon. What he really meant was that he just did vaginoplasty and didn't do labiaplasty. A lot of people went to him, and newer surgeons began billing themselves as one-stage surgeons (Bowers in particular; he even personally trained her), because he promised the convenience of getting it all done in one surgery, but as a result the aesthetics were considerably worse because he just left the second stage off entirely. This was around the time Suporn developed his technique, with Chett following shortly afterwards, thus beginning the meme of "North American surgeons produce awful results, and Thai results look great". Well, North American results didn't look that bad until most doctors stopped insisting on labiaplasties. It's impossible to make penile inversion look remotely good without a labiaplasty (and even the Thai technique will benefit considerably from a labiaplasty, but the results without one aren't nearly as dire)."
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This was posted to /r/asktransgender sooo is Penny going to ban them as well?
Look who's talking:
Other people are not your property. You don't get to dictate their stories nor how they ought to live their lives. Treat other people as full human beings with consciences -- instead of as game pieces.
Unless of course they're a detransitioner who wants to talk about their botched surgeries or negative experiences with HRT on Reddit, then Penny is allowed to objectify them, infantilize them, censor them and treat them like trash. Because Penny is pre-op, desperately craves SRS and doesn't want to know about the complications or what it's actually like to experience a botched SRS. Because Penny doesn't want to know, no one else is allowed to know.
Reddit censor/content cop Penny Oaken, who wants to suspend /r/detrans because they allow ex-trans people to talk about botched surgeries/procedures: you will never silence detransitioners.
"They try to tell us that it's fear mongering.
It's not fear mongering. What, our lives don't matter?"
If any mods or users are reading this, go ahead and block /u/Bardfinn right now, if your sub allows (de)transitioners to talk about negative results of medical prodecures, surgery, HRT side effects, etc. Penny will lie about your sub to get it deleted and say you're only allowing (de)transitioners to talk about these topics to fear monger. Tell all your members to block him as well, this self-appointed content cop is out for blood all over Reddit.
Here's /u/Bardfinn arguing against his own blanket-banning by subs that are at risk of being targeted by him because people will realize that he has long had a repuation for being a censor and a content cop targeting subs he doesn't like:
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This post is basically the censor arguing against the censorship of himself. Go ahead and ban him anyway.
Here's what Penny Oaken doesn't want you to know about bottom surgery:
Cat: "I fervently avoided learning anything about it [endocrinology], I didn't want to think about, I just wanted to be in my little groove and not question my path, because, I tell ya, it was kind of a coping path for me."
Cat: "Yeah, I think that's maybe why the complacency is in there, because seretonin is part of what gets us moving. It's all an integral system, the endocrine system. You can't even take one away from the other. It's all interrelated. And males have things set up a certain way, and females have it set up another way. When you start messing with it, it gets a little crazy. I am not an expert in it, I am speaking in general terms about it. When a male doesn't have any testosterone, just a tiny dribble from the adrenal gland, and then is also taking estrogen, things are really getting out of whack. When you stop taking estrogen, when I stopped taking estrogen, I had no testosterone and no estrogen. So I went about a year, I was so shy of taking any kind of drugs or medicine, then I began to feel rather ill and depressed because you need have one of them. Even males, when they get old, they have less testosterone but they still have pretty much compared to what I had. And women after menopause, they still have pretty much estrogen compared to not taking any. But when you have none going on at all, you feel kind of fragile. And that's why I had to start taking testosterone.
Maritza: "And the sad thing is, the medical community hands out these scripts like candy but they don't explain things to you. Like I had my ovaries removed. Especially back in 2003 when I transitioned, no one was the wiser, no one knew anything. They were just handing out stuff like, here, take this! So, what happens if you can't take testosterone anymore? What happens if testosterone becomes damaging, it can give you a heart attack, or, with yourself, estrogen giving you a stroke? What do we do? No one ever thinks of these things. It's just this joy ride, this fun fun fun, but no one really looks at the hard facts about what happens to your health."
