Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:16 AM

Who the fuck cares??? Seriously does this guy have to tell the whole freaken world about his damned surgery? So what if Youtube got rid of the video? It's just some trans guy posting a video that nobody should really care about. This guy needs to drop the narcism!! Yo Scaia, you and your struggle are not important enough for anyone to give a shit about so quit forcing youtube and facebook to accommodate you!! You might be trans but really, you are nothing more than a self-indulgent narcissist that for some weird reason feels that the world needs to accept you, because you're "special" Grow up!!!

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Saturday, May 15, 2010 7:46 AM

i think it's good he is sharing his experience so that other trans-men will understand the procedure, the healing time, and what to expect visually and physically during the healing process..

jia lychkova

Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:07 AM

Wow, transphobia in comments on an Xtra article... I'm SHOCKED. What I'm hearing here is that "trans people need to learn their place and STFU when ignorant and/or transphobic cis people want to treat them badly, because asking for such crumbs as simple tolerance is being pushy, uppity and 'narcissistic'. And respect? Forget it; that's only for people who don't clash with my stunning lack of education."

Real classy, that. Dominic's doing valuable work in putting his transition out there to show other trans men what it's been like and he's being shat upon for helping members of his community. I'll be doing everything I can to support him in his efforts.

Nico

Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:33 PM

his video should not be allowed. if trans men want to have the same rights and treatment as women, they should be allowed to be showing off their breasts. they cant ask to be women and then tell youtube and facebook that they're being transphobic by taking down the content. technically since he is/isgoingtobe a woman, they are breasts and it is considered nudity.

james

Saturday, May 15, 2010 4:22 PM

James, you seem stunningly unclear on these matters, so here's an explanation.

Dominic is a trans man, not a trans woman, and since he is a man, it's just as legal for him to display his chest as it is for you to display yours. Ironically, you got his pronouns right, but only because you thought his transition was going the other way. For the record, it is never appropriate to refer to trans men as women/by female pronouns, nor is it ever appropriate to refer to trans women as men/by male pronouns (as you thought you were doing).

Nico

Saturday, May 15, 2010 6:02 PM

James, very few American jurisdictions still have laws prohibiting female topless nudity while allowing male. Such a law would be sexist and unequal.

Exasperated

Sunday, May 16, 2010 12:24 PM

Wow talk about opening your mouth and inserting both feet.
James have you ever heard the saying better to let others think you are stupid then to open your mouth and remove all doubt?
James, Dominic is a man who was born with transexuality. That means he has to fix things that you take for granted, such as his chest. Unfortunately for him his body has created breasts and so as is the case with other men dealing with the same situation, he must undergo medical procedures to remove that tissue and then reconstruct his chest.
So no you dummy he is not trying to be female, cause he isn't female any more then you are.

As for the other phobe who wrote, clearly you don't need to check his youtube page out, but others do and have. Those that have and do get information that they need and can get answers to questions they need answers to.

femme

Friday, May 21, 2010 12:06 PM

Wow... Thanks Nico, Jia and femme for providing sanity. I guess the asshats are successful in one regard: illustrating have much hate and fear transfolk face.

Happy healing, Dominic!

Dan