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2025-10-28 14:24 UTC

Today I met with the actual psychiatrist at burojij, who has agreed to refer me for bottom surgery. It was a rather short meeting (just 20 minutes), but a rather important step. I'm happy to now have the official referral, but he told me that he expects it to still take a few years before I can get the operation. I'm currently working with the assumption that he's most familiar with the hospital in Amsterdam where that's true, because the Radboud website says something completely different (~14 months). At least I'll have a clear picture on this soon, when I can ask Radboud to give me a timeline at my intake with them in a month.

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@pixiesnoot@transfem.social 2025-11-26 13:48

Today I had my intake appointment at Radboud for a vaginoplasty operation, with the assistant of the surgeon that does the operation. I feel it went well. She wanted to make sure I understand what I'm asking for and why, believed my answers, walked me through the details of the operation and aftercare, and we went over what to expect, possible complications, and stuff like that. She also did a quick physical evaluation and determined that with a scrotal skin graft I could get 10-11 cm of depth, which is slightly less than I was hoping for but also upon reflection seems like plenty lol The bad news is that first I need to meet with their psychologist. We'll be able to rely on the report from burojij to speed along the conversation with the psychologist, but there's a 6 month wait-list to talk to them, and only after that's done can I start the 14 month wait-list for the operation, so I can expect another 20 months of waiting with Radboud. There's a small footnote here that they're planning on moving some more stuff to an outpatient facility which will open up capacity to start making the 14 month wait shorter, which I might benefit from. So with Radboud I'm looking at July 2027, which is far longer into the future than I'd like but at least this is the first time in this journey I've had a semi real date. Now to see if gender clinic can give me a shorter timeline. And perhaps renew my efforts to talk to surgeons in Spain, as a backup plan.

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