I was watching a former beauty queen - Gemma Garrett (ex Miss Great Britain) - last night on BBC 3 give an impassioned analysis as to why women should not have implants.

Former Miss Great Britain, Gemma Garrett, investigates how she - and 50,000 other British women - ended up with toxic breast implants made by the French company PIP. After her own implants ruptured and the silicone pieces had to be tweezered out, Gemma wants to know not just what the long-term effects will be on her body, but also why such high numbers of women remain so desperate to make their breasts bigger - and what risks they face as a result. Can they be confident about the other products on the market, or even breast surgery itself?

As she explores the implant industry as a whole, she meets the first woman to ever have them and some of the women with PIPs now terrified they have been left with 'ticking timebombs' in their chest. And with her own experience still painfully raw, Gemma challenges a friend who is still dead set on having implants - but is a boob job really the best way to boost her assets?

Here are some of the key points for those who cannot watch the BBC iplayer or don't have time before June 2nd to view it.

1. Implants need to be replaced every 10 years, so if you are 20 that is at least 5 times at £5k per time.
2. Even before the PIP scandal (which potentially will affect 2 million women worldwide) implants were known to rupture, leak, move within the chest cavity, and due to scar tissue harden like oranges.
3. The safeguards in place are not very good, and choosing a non accredited surgeon and or the cheapest deal is almost a guaranteed disaster.
4. 70% of young girls would trade intelligence for bigger breasts and 65% of young women want perfect breasts.
5. There is a huge pressure on women to look perfect, and the Twitter FB generation all want implants.
6. Why is women's confidence now linked to their bodies? The benefits of plastic surgery are short lived - its an external solution to an internal problem which does NOT solve the problem. The pressure on women to be something they are not, and its primarily by other women, is too intense and surgery is too easily available.
7. There are higher suicide rates for women with breast augmentation.
8. Why spend £5k on new boobs every ten years, when spending £1k on therapy will have more benefits?
9. Pills, creams and suction cups etc do NOT work - if they did the NHS would use them instead of surgery
10. Stuff your bra - not your breasts. Everybody (real women that is) buys false boobs and inserts, from their teens to their 90s. So "falsies" are not just for us special girls.

These are some of the key findings from the programme. All of them are relevant for any TG person considering implants.

I have given below the link to the programme.

Pauline xxxx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01j73tg/Are_My_Fake_Breasts_Safe/

It is a worry, all the pressure society (and other women) put on young girls. It's easy to become paranoid about every part of your body. A deodorant ad on TV says something along the lines of 80 percent of women worry about their armpits so use our moisturising deodorant. So it's armpits, boobs, legs, hips, bum, feet, toes, nails, arms, bellies, faces, lips, eyes, eyebrows, hair, etc etc. Are we breeding a society of the self obsessed? And the self more important than others? And what part do we play as trannies? xxx

i think it is daft to have b reast implants, and to quote pauline, out and out risky and not worth it, being a tranny it has not crossed my mind to have implants, so all you girls out there, if people are prepared to accept you as you are, bollocks to them [excuse to bad grammer,lol] so be yourself, and if it comes to it go and get a pair of silicone ones. i did lol, love collette XXX.

missed spelling [word]. if people are not prepared to........etc sorry love collette XXX.

What part do we play as trannies? Great question Julie. My answer would be to encourage challenge as something that is fun and subversive rather than something that requires surgery and pain in pursuit of an unrealisable ideal.
Marianne
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What part do we play as trannies? Great question Julie. My answer would be to encourage challenge as something that is fun and subversive rather than something that requires surgery and pain in pursuit of an unrealisable ideal.
Marianne
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Not sure why I posted that twice!!!!

marianne you are just like the bbc full of repeats ha ha xxxx

But I don't charge as much for my license! XX

ha ha ha nice one marianne LMAO xxxxxx

How much is a tranny licence ?

007 pence! X

with all the pressure on women to "Look Good" is immense... the covers of EVERY womens magazine you see a pictures of so called "Perfection"... it's little wonder why many women see themselves as 'imperfect'... it's a multi billion dollar business at the expense womens insecurity which has been implanted by the beauty & fashion industry... and it's that insecurity which has been implanted which is the most damaging to womens self-asteem, insecurities and mental health

and as for a TV Licence... ↓↓ Look ↓↓

Lisa, all your many other endorsements have now been cleared I seexxx

big biggest endorsment is to tell everyone to be themselves and do what they want to do and not be influenced by the media and fashion/beauty industry... we're all different for a reason... ~♥~

Further to my first posting on the dangers of breast implants, which in my view are real risky and always have been (in the late 90s Dow Silicones filed for Chapter 11 after all the lawsuits in the USA for their silicone implants)...so plus ca change, the UK advisory body of MPs is now recommending that all cosmetic implant patients should undergo rigorous mental health checks.

This ties in with the point Julie made about body image of young girls and the same is true for T girls.

P xxx

see link below to D Mail article:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151968/Breast-enlargement-patients-face-mental-health-checks-allowed-undergo-procedures.html