How did you feel about your breasts before surgery?

Thea: I’ve always loved my breasts, ever since they started budding. But as time passed after the initial growth spurt I felt more and more insecure about their size and effect on my "passing".

Juliana: I was actually very happy with them, I sometimes thought they were a little small but I know I had been very lucky with the growth I'd got. They felt soft, and 'like boobs’, not sure how to explain that too much more.

How do you feel about them know?

Thea: I love them dearly, and they do so much for my confidence and feeling secure in my gender expression. I sometimes think I should've gone bigger but I'm not unhappy with the size as they are now, and the scars are itchy on occasion (but I adore the way the scars look).

Juliana: I am so happy with them, they are beyond my expectations. I feel so much better about myself as a whole even though they are just a small (well larger now) part of me.
I also sometimes wish I'd gone bigger, but I'm not sure the surgeons would have let me, and I think the scars are pretty.

How do the bigger and heavier boobs feel on your body?

Thea: I don't feel their weight at all! I expected to, but I don't even wear a bra most of the time (when I do it's for style, not support). I also love how they've softened and settled since the recovery, I think they feel very natural when grabbed now.

Juliana: In terms of physical feel, honestly about the same, I got used to the weight very quickly. Don't need a bra to support them, apart from at the gym despite their size.

Have you noticed any particular change in how you're perceived by others?

Thea: Not so much in interactions with Normal People™ I think, but fellow trans queers seem more interested in me both sexually and... intellectually might be the right word? Like, questions about size and how it feels, admiring the scars, etcetera.
But I also have been hanging out with a lot more trans people, so this change may actually be in the crowd rather than in anyone's perception of me. It's something that's difficult to gauge.

Juliana: Non queer people not at all, trans and queer people very much so. I think that may be because of the difference in people I talk to about them though, I generally only interact with non queer people in more professional settings, so would be kinda unprofessional of them to comment.
I do feel like maybe non queers see me as 'more of a woman' now though, which is a strange thing to notice. Cishet men stare at them a lot more now, men I don't know are far friendlier. Maybe it's not necessarily more of a woman to cis men, but more of a sex object, at least that's the feeling from some.