*intro music plays*
hey there! my name is chase and this is a video for my sex education stuff
uhhhh... video. series. *whispers* yeahhhhh...
before i even start with the TITLE of this video, although you've probably seen it...
DIS-CLAIMER. Trigger warning! Literally. like, DISClAIMER.
this video is about the health of an area. that trans men are usually dysphoric about
and dont want to talk about, and dont want to look at it and anything like that
dont want to use it- whereas some people they like it, and doesnt matter
no dysphoria *MMPH noise*
but, a lot of people are like do not talk about this. but, today I am going
to talk about the health of your- and im going to call it, your who-ha.
its either that or using the- well like im not gonn use the word front-hole cuz for me
i associate that mostly with sex, and im not gonna use the v-word becasue that would w- that- no.
im not doing that cuz no.
so. im talking about the health of your who-ha and um.. having a healthy who-ah *adorably awkward laugh*
i cant take tis seriously but for real. ummm being like- you know why? you know why im doing this?
because there's absolutely NO information that i have found with all my research that i have done
on UTIs, on yeast infections, and on- and i have to use the word right now and im sorry
because its part on the word- on bacterial vagiosis. vaginosis? i said it that time.
just making sure thats how you say it sorry. there- theres like basically no information. sure,
sure, if you google it you'll get like one or two sources, but um, i thought that i would
talk about some things that i have found. now, when trans people- trans men specifically, have
infections, STIs, anything like that, its very hard for us to look at some of the symptoms
because its like what do you look at? the men, the women, i dont know. so i made
a videos about STIs for FTMs, which i will link. um... right there. kay, just for you,
put it right there. we're talking about STIs, gonorrhea and all that stuff. fun...
but I made that video to provide information. even though you could google this information,
i think its cool to have it in a video form so we can like interact together.
so, today im going to be talking about three main infections.
that effect the who-ha that we need to talk about.
so im going to start with UTIs, and please remember because theres not real- lots of
information for trans guys on this, um.. that it- i do have to look at the symptoms for women
more, but i have searched a lot like, women high testosterone UTI and stuff like that
just to see. or like hormonal balance an stuff lik- just to see if its anything related to
hormones, and to see if we are more susceptible to it.
alright so what is a uti? so a UTI is a
urinary tract infection and its when bacteria um is
introduced into the urethra, usually goes all the way up to the bladder
and can lead to bladder infections, and if untreated can
also lead to kidney infections.
so the most common bacteria that is actually inroduced
into the urethra is e coli and its very- like the
percentage of infections from that is very high
and that bacteria usually comes from the bowels
i know, all of this is just so like- oh great chase, thank
you for this information. but you know what? lets just-
we need this information im gonna use words if you
watched my STI video, oh my god i cant believe i said all
those words out loud like if the neighbours were listening-
i mean, they leared a lot of stuff. bless. but i was just like
ANUS! and *hella studdering* fun.
alright so people with who-has are at greater risk
of getting urinary tract infections because our
urethra is shorter, so that means when a bacteria is
introduced into the area, theres a shorter length of time
to the actual bladder um, then people with penises.
that urethra is a lot longer, and its a lot more complicated
to go all the way into that urethra and find the bladder
for the infection. so, with peope with who-has since its a
lot shorter, the second that bacteria is introduced into
the area, its very likely that it will travel up the urethra
and hit the bladder right away. so when that happens,
thats when the urethra um, has a lot of issues and
and you have issues with urinating, and you have a lot of
pain, and soreness, and stuff like that.
another reason people with who-has are a greater risk of
getting urinary tract infections is because of the anus
and the urethra.... is very close together whereas people
the anus and the urethra is like *whoosh noise* like its
its far, its like a- its far away. like it doesn't usually connect.
right? like on your own self.
so another casue of a UTI uh for people with who-has
is uh, sexual activity. and that could be multiple sex
partners, or it could be one sex partner that goes into
um, the anus and then switches over right and goes into
the front-hole. now, with or without a condom it doesnt
matter, that bacteria that is from that area is now
entering the front, and the urethra is very close- its right
there, its gonna touch it no matter what. so when that
usually happens, thats when the UTI is caused. and its
very painful to happen. so if you are planning on having
anal sex and then going to the front, just change
condoms or add a condom if you didnt have one before.
um just so that the likelihood of that is not gonna happen
and just a side note thats also a cause of UTIs for
people with penises because if you're doing anal
unprotected theres a high chance that the bacteria from
that area will enter the urethra. like i said, um people
who-has *laughs* are more likely to get it because the
urethra is shorter, so with people with penises its gonna
a bit longer- like, to go so its- its rare but it happens.
so the symptoms are really important for this, um
especially because people with who-has are about- its- the
statistic is like one out of two. so like fifty percent of
people with who-has are gonna get a UTI at least once in their life.
so, the common symptoms are uh feeling full and going
to pee and- going to urinate if i use proper words, and
just a little but comes out, but you really need to go all
the time, very painful urination, um some discoloration,
blood, um, some odd smell to your urine, um and you
can also get some pains in the lower back and abdomen.
so the reason why you could have pains in the lower
back and in the abdomen area is because if the UTI
goes untreated it goes to the bladder, causes a bladder
infection, if thats still untreated its gonna move up to the kidneys
which will cause a kidney infection, and thats why the back usually hurts.
so when this happens its like a very serious infection
and you could have a fever, you have chills, theres a lot
more symptoms that come around to that because you
have a kidney infection now. and this actually happened
to Aaron, so if you watch any of the vlogs that i made
couple of months, i was at the hospital with Aaron a
couple of times because he had a kidney infection and
the reason was because he had an untreated UTI that he
didn't realize that he had because- whatever, painful
urination is- it wasn't painful, he had a very high pain
tolerance. whatever. anyways, so he was very sick
before we went to the hospital i dragged him up to the
hospital, got him to the- got him to talk to doctors and i
told him i think its his kidneys, and it was his kidneys.
so in order to test for this you just have to go to a doctor
and they're gonna do a urine sample and theyre gonna
and they're gonna test for the type of bacteria that could
be in a- in a UTI that could categorize it as a UTI. once
they do that and you are- they tell you that a UTI, you
test positive for that, they're gonna give you some medication
you just have to take it the whole time and then youre good
a lot of people think cranberry juice works, and not like the cranberry juice cocktail
because like, lets be serious. um but the cranberry juice
works um, but according to the Internets it is a very mix
because some people say that it doesn't work, and some
people say that it only works through the strand of UTI
that comes from e coli which is the most common one
so who knows? when i have a UTI which i have had
many. *laughs* i drank a lot of cranberry juice and a lot
of water to flush it out.
alright so you can help prevent UTIs the number one
thing that you could to, okay? is to empty your bladder
when you are full. now this is where the trans aspect
comes in, alright? because sometimes, we dont feel
comfortable going to the bathroom. alright? let me tell
you a lil quickie. lil story. i was not comfortable going to
the bathroom in 2011. 2010. turning 2011, right? that
entire year, i just- i could not use the bathroom, i held it
in, when i would go to school i would not use the bathroom
i was terrified becasue i looked ike i was in the middle i
didnt know if i like- women would like scream if i went to the bath-
it was just a very confusing time. so i held my pee in for
about twelve hours a day. not recommended to do that.
anyways, i ended up with a very intense UTI that i was like
not wanting to deal with, which turned into a very intense
bladder infection, and then which turn into me not being
able to pee for 16 hours.
and this wasn't me actively trying to hold it in, this was
me i am in so much pain my bladder is about to explode.
i go to the hospital, they tell me its not that bad, and then
they realize their machine is broken, and they look again
and theyre like your bladder it about to explode. so they
had to catheterize me and i ended up with a catheter for
two months. actually it was like five catheters, sorry.
because they had to keep taking it out and putting one back in.
you know how comfortable that was? six months on T
it was fantastic. thats right when the growth is like at its peak pain.
fantastic. so, the moral of this story: DO NOT HOLD YOUR PEE IN.
the moral of this story is also that people who are forbidding trans people
from using the bathroom, go and do something else with your life.
because this is serious! this is serious. i know trans people who refuse to go to the doctor.
can you imagine? you cant go pee, you get a urinary tract infection, you
get a kidney infection, a bladder infection, you refuse to go to the doctor.
you have an infection, youre gonna have a fever, this is
dangerous. so, as much as youre just gonna say well now you pass,
obviously you're telling me to go to the bathroom.
if i know, if i wouldve known what i knew back then
now.... you know what im trying to say, i would have gone to the bathroom, i dont care
i would've done whatever i could. knowing what i went through
it was the horr- the- that two months hurt more than me getting hit by a car.
like it was ridiculous. anyways, once again, moral of the story, dont hold your pee in,
try to find a bathroom, look for bathrooms where youre going,
and like try to find somewhere. go with someone, try to
get a friend to go to the bathroom with you. scope it out, just see
some stuff. its so to pee. trust me you do not
want to end up with a catheter. you dont want to end up with a bladder or kidney infection.
its very uncomfortable. and its also very emotionally uncomfortable to talk
to the doctors about this stuff. so anyway to prevent it would be great.
other ways to prevent it is to drink a lot of water,
um, when you have like um, um.. just make sure like underwear you wear makes your junk
junk, who-ha dry at all times so that theres no like moisture
and potential bacteria than can go i there. obviously like i said, um if youre gonna go
from anal to the front, change condoms, or ad- or like put a new condom on,
or- whatever. um, those are just little things that you could do to make
sure that you dont end up with a UTI.
but if you do end up with a UTI, please go to the doctor,
because its not as bad as if it turns into a bladder or a kidney infection.
becasue they dont have to check your junk at all if you
UTI. okay? you just have to do a urine sample
and you're done. um, bladder and kidney infections, they dont have to go inside you but
but like i said- not inside you, sorry. jesuse christ they dont have to look
at your area, but if you end up being not able to pee because your
infection is so intense, then they will have to look at the area and trust me you dont want to-
i have trauma related like- its crazy. anyways lets move on
alright now lets talk about yeast infections. so about 70% of people with who-has
get one yeast infection at least one time in their life.
uh yeast infections just like urinary tract infections can be recurring.
and i do have a statistic. one, about trans people with this that i found on
one website so who knows if its true? but i might as well just tell you
you may be more prone to yeast infections at the beginning of HRT.
so when you first start using horemones because your hormone balance
is going up and down, and yeast infections are very closely related to hormonal imbalance.
so what is a yeast infection? well basically, um
everyone who has a who-ha has a very small number of yeast
in their who-ha. uh, a yeast infection is when there is a
abnormal amount of yeast that has been growing in the who-ha.
so the symptoms of this are really not fun, its like
burning and pain urination, soreness, itchiness, burning an pain when having sex
um you also can get some discharge from the area
um that has a very weird thick colour
and uh- thick colour... okay. um but theres no odor to it
so for people who are pre T UTIs are actually really common the week before your monthly cycle thing
um because of the hormone imbalance once again. it can also
it can also occur if you have like, lack of sleep, or like a weak immune system,
and like you eat a lot of sugary foods, which i tried to look up and i was just very confused
thats very interesting, sugary foods causes yeast infections.
so that was interesting. and also stress.
alright so how do you treat a yeast infection? well you could go to a
doctor and get some um, superscription medication
or usually you could actually just get cream or suppository-
suppository? i think im saying that right, at the pharmacy and use it
but if you get chronic um yeast infections, so more than three a year, you should
go see a doctor because there might be something going on that you need to check out.
so if i take a trans angle right here, if i had a yeast infection i
would go to a doctor now. just because im too scared that theres something
going on that i need to know about and um as bad
as it is cause im pretty sure that they sometimes have to look
in that area, the who-ha area. i would rather know one hundered percent that its
a yeast infection, instead of knowing that its something else.
and they give- and i like take medication thats wrong for me like
it could be bacterial vagis- vaginosis, sorry it could be an STI
or something like that, so id much rather go to a doctor if im not one hundred percent
but like i said you dont have to.
alright, so number three is bacterial vaginosis.
so im gonna stop saying that word and say bacterial
whahahaha. so what is it? um, it is an infection caused
by too much of a certain bacteria that is in the who-ha
which disrupts the balance of the bacteria that you already have in there.
so if you look at UTIs and then you look at yeast infections, theyre very
like theyre different, but its almost like youre putting like those two
symptoms and the way that its done together and basically
bacterial vaginosis- i just said it again im sorry
is very close to a yeast infection, but theyre different.
so you can get bacterial whohaosis from douching too much because youre
disrupting the balance of the bacteria in the who-ha and also having multiple
sex partners. so sometimes there are no symptoms when you have bacterial whahahaha.
but when you do have symptoms you get some white-grayish um discharge
odor, um itchiness, and uh irritation, it smells like a fish odor after sex,
if youre using that area, and it burns when you urinate.
so its not fun but what you can do is go to a doctor. now,
this is the part, i know, it is very triggering for a lot of
people, but in order to one hundred percent know if you have
bacterial whahahaha the doctor needs to take a swab of the fluids from the mehehaha.
from the um the who-ha. as i call it. so this can actually go away on its own without any
medication, but um if you do have symptoms, you should go to a doctor.
and when you do and to a doctor and they test posi- you test positive
for that, theyre gonna give you medication. now, as i
said in my STI video. for FTMs, STIs for FTMs, um you once you take
the medication and get rid of the infection that is happening,
it does not mean that youre immune to the infection ever again.
this mean that you will potentially, maybe in the future, maybe never, but maybe
get it, bacterial bwahermerha again.
now while cis men can not transmit it to you, or people with who-has,
people with who-has, with other people with who-has can
to them selves. to thems- to each other? yeah, there you go.
and unfortunatley if you do have bacterial whaherherhah you are at greater risk at transmitting or contracting
um HVI or STIs. so that is something to um, understand if you think that you might have
it, go to a doctor, and dont have sex just in case.
or if you are, just- you know protection and stuff like that but
i- you know. just watch the STI for FTMs video, it'll give you a lot of information about the different
type of STIs there and i do talk some specific trans things in there as well. so hopefully
this video was in-informational a little bit, i just talked about the three main ones, um i didnt talk about
atrophy or anything like that, cause this is more about like
the health and things that you can actually do to the area, right? um,
going to see a doctor is a very goo idea when you have these infections,
um, yes, some of them can go away on their own but honest;y just to make sure that it is that and
instead of something else, i would go to a doctor, if you have access to that.
um but what is really important is that i know that a lot of people
dont think about.. um about these things they dont think about that area because
you know, theyre on T, and they never wanna think about it,
theyre planning bottom surgery in the future, they have no idea what theyre doing.
and youre maybe not thinking about it that often but it is very important to
think about these areas, i dont like thinking about them, but i have had yeast infections, pre T and
on T, i have also had UTIs pre T and post T, i had a UTI three months ago.
theyre not fun, it hurts. and its embarrassing going to the doctor
and being like oh by the way im trans too so its not like- like in case they had
specific tests for "men" which they dont, by the way, it just a urine test.
but i dont know, it was just- hmm. and also, just to mention this as well because i
know that i lot of trans men use prosthetic penises and stuff like that
make sure that you- if you are- uh, penetrating someone else, or if someone else is
penetrating you with it, and you are going from anal to the front or
anything like that, even on your partner, make sure you change the condom. or you add a c- like you put a
condom on if you didnt have one before, very important, or if you wash your toy,
use a different toy, very important. um you dont want to have a
potential UTI, or anything like that, you dont want your partner to have a UTI,
its just not fun. and also because we use STPs and packers, that are sometimes
kinda dirty cause we dont wanna wash them, or we use the same type of packing underwear
that is dangerous because it does mean that the area is dirty and becasue the was shorter
urethras, the bacteria can go up the urethra like i was talking about before.
so we need to be careful with that and wash our STPs becasue that is a
cause for a lot of UTIs from a lot of trans guys that ive seen
especially holding in your pee. but, we were talking about toys, holding in your pee, those are the two main ones for trans guys.
so hopefully that helped. i am like so thirsty right now *eah nosie followed by whoogh* um,
let me know what you think, if you have any suggesions on any sex related videos
you'd like me to talk about, and of course if you have any questions, let me know. alright, have
a great day, bye. *outro music*