Trans veteran Natalie Rose Kastner, a combat engineer in the Army from 2006 to 2008 who is now disabled, told The Daily Beast of attempting an at-home surgery herself, having sought in vain to access gender confirmation surgery from the VA and via her civilian health insurance.
On March 5, 2022, Kastner—feeling an overwhelming sense of gender dysphoria—took a paring knife and pair of scissors, went to her bathroom, and cut her right testicle off, without anesthesia or medical training.
“I cut a tendon and artery, and blood hit the wall. The thing that crossed my mind was, ‘Oh, I cut the artery,’” Kastner told The Daily Beast. “I cleaned my bathroom up, and went back to bed. My cat, Gigi, woke me up, and by doing so saved me. I reached down there, pulled back my hand, and there was blood all over it. I went back to the bathroom and saw the toilet paper I had used to clot the wound had not done that. I went down to my car to drive myself to the ER around the corner. The nearest VA hospital was over an hour away. If I’d driven there, I would have died somewhere along that road.”
“Everyone acknowledges the high suicide rates for trans veterans,” Kastner said. “I can’t help but think how many of those were not suicides. How many of those were just another transgender woman like myself, or a transgender male, who just wanted to fix their bodies? To be clear, I did not walk into that bathroom wanting to end my life. I have two beautiful children, and an ex-wife who at that time I was a caregiver for. I was not attempting suicide. I was attempting to fix my body.”
“The surgeries we are asking the VA to provide are life-saving surgeries,” Kastner said. “If I had been able to receive it, or have the hope of receiving one of those surgeries, I would not have done that. I can only imagine how many transgender veterans out there have gone to the same lengths as I have and not been so lucky.”
If testes do not define gender, then how does removing them confirm gender?
“ If testes do not define gender, then how does removing them confirm gender?”
That is the perfect question to something that has no answer for these people.
lol this guy cut one of his nuts off and somehow blames the VA for it? lol wtf at this logic
WTF is right!
I personally know a guy who did that back in the early 1980s. This guy was big and hairy like Jason Kelce at a Buffalo game. Not feminine by any stretch of imagination!
Going into a bathroom & removing a testicle with a kitchen knife sounds a lot like a mental disorder that this man needs to be put into a psych ward for not given help to confirm his delusions.
VA is supposed care for Veterans with injuries incurred while in the service, be it during war or other duty. Not for some nut who cut off their nut.
Kastner. What an interesting last name. I wonder where he attends synagogue?
Cut own ball off - ok we're at full retard
Thought a bit of toilet paper would stem the bleeding from doing same - ... uh where do we go from "full retard" again?
He seems to imply that a lot of “suicides” are actually just botched trans surgery,
You’d think that would be evident during autopsy.
Is there any truth to this?
Do trans dude ls die by cutting off their own dick?
I can say i personally know a man who cut off his own dick, but he didnt die from it, at least not at the time i knew him which was probably within a few years of the incident
I suspect some “trans” dudes are basically gay, but they want to be gay with straight men, so they try to turn themselves into something a straight man would find attractive…
And maybe sometimes they are somewhat successful at landing a date, and everything is going good until the pants come down and the ding-a-ling comes out.
And i imagine the conversation goes something like this…
straight guy sg: whoa! hold on a minute. What the fuck is that thing doing down there?
trans “woman” tw: oh, thats just my lady dick. Wanna suck it?
sg: no, thats disgusting. Im straight, im not into dudes.
tw: im not a dude, im a chick.
sg: well your erect penis says otherwise
tw: oh, is my penis a problem?
sg: well actually, yes! i’m straight. I’m not into penis, like, at all…
tw: oh, you have a genital preference?
sg: yes i prefer vagina,
tw: oh thats perfectly valid.
tw: but what if i took this here steak knife and sliced off my penis? Would you be sexually attracted to me then?
sg: oddly enough, that would probably make me even more replused than i was before!
tw: why are you transphobic?
sg: not sure what that means, but its not really part of my vocabulary, and it doesnt sound like something i even want to delve in to.
"I suspect some “trans” dudes are basically gay"
And THAT is the biggest thing right now. Basically, most "trans" are such early on because gay and they don't get that that may just be how it is/how they are. And now we have this whole industrial/political faction saying "oh it's because you got the wrong body" not "oh accept it you're gay."
It's, ironically, the most homophobic thing ever. And remember "conversion therapy" - it's BAAAAACK!!! And in spades, because hormones and surgery are INCLUDED!!!
To Add the military medical will pay for the invitro treatments for unmarried without donor egg or sperm. Getting in line to provide Trans with equality for being a parent. SMH when at the same time is allowing up to 30 days off for abortions.
WELL, for one thang for sure...HE/SHE is ONE idiot I WOULD NOT WANT ANYWHERE NEAR MY SQUAD..."she be one nut shy of a full load"!!!!!
is trans surgery elective or necessary?