Whether having breasts is a minor thing to the person who has them depends greatly on the size.
Below a certain size, you can have breast development that’s visible when nude, but easy to hide if you want to. Bras aren’t generally necessary (though they can be an aesthetic preference or helpful for reducing friction when clothes move across the area), and little to no effort or discomfort is required to wear a sports bra or binder and comfortably wear clothing cut for body types without breasts. The current selfies in the post make look to me like the author is almost certainly in this category. Plenty of women, both cis and trans, have less volume of breast tissue than a certain phenotype of obese cis men.
Above a certain size, having breasts can be a major inconvenience, even for people who generally like having them. Bras become mandatory for avoiding pain when moving about in one’s daily life, and rather than cute decorations, they’re expensive feats of structural engineering. Finding any clothing which fits flatteringly can become between difficult and impossible, and major social stigma can be experienced for choosing clothes that the viewer perceives as “too revealing”.
Are you calling it a non-minor thing to you as a reader just learning about Sapphire’s journey, or a non-minor thing to you as someone considering the pros and cons of transition? The former would seem kind of out of line, but the latter seems very understandable to me.
FWIW, breast growth generally proceeds slowly enough that you can stop it by stopping the hormones causing it, if that’s an option for you. (it’s not an option when the hormones show up by default at puberty, so that’s one of the many facets of being human that’s distressing to some teens...)
(Adding to this) My sense is that for thin trans women you will almost certainly not end up with seriously inconveniently-sized breasts unless you get implants. It’s not a guarantee as I do know trans women with pretty huge bazonkas but it’s certainly a strong tendency.
Before I transitioned I was non-overweight and had moderate gynecomastia. It never posed any problems for my ability to present as male or to be attractive to straight women.
Whether having breasts is a minor thing to the person who has them depends greatly on the size.
Below a certain size, you can have breast development that’s visible when nude, but easy to hide if you want to. Bras aren’t generally necessary (though they can be an aesthetic preference or helpful for reducing friction when clothes move across the area), and little to no effort or discomfort is required to wear a sports bra or binder and comfortably wear clothing cut for body types without breasts. The current selfies in the post make look to me like the author is almost certainly in this category. Plenty of women, both cis and trans, have less volume of breast tissue than a certain phenotype of obese cis men.
Above a certain size, having breasts can be a major inconvenience, even for people who generally like having them. Bras become mandatory for avoiding pain when moving about in one’s daily life, and rather than cute decorations, they’re expensive feats of structural engineering. Finding any clothing which fits flatteringly can become between difficult and impossible, and major social stigma can be experienced for choosing clothes that the viewer perceives as “too revealing”.
Are you calling it a non-minor thing to you as a reader just learning about Sapphire’s journey, or a non-minor thing to you as someone considering the pros and cons of transition? The former would seem kind of out of line, but the latter seems very understandable to me.
FWIW, breast growth generally proceeds slowly enough that you can stop it by stopping the hormones causing it, if that’s an option for you. (it’s not an option when the hormones show up by default at puberty, so that’s one of the many facets of being human that’s distressing to some teens...)
(Adding to this) My sense is that for thin trans women you will almost certainly not end up with seriously inconveniently-sized breasts unless you get implants. It’s not a guarantee as I do know trans women with pretty huge bazonkas but it’s certainly a strong tendency.
Before I transitioned I was non-overweight and had moderate gynecomastia. It never posed any problems for my ability to present as male or to be attractive to straight women.