Thanks for posting this. I read this too. I do wonder though if we will start to see organ donors say that they don't want that organ used. I wonder if penises would be a special request item they (the organ people who hawk around waiting for your family member to die) would have to ask a family member for even if the person is a "organ donor".
Anyway, I suspect that a cis man would get a donated penis well before they would give one to a trans man. However, if donating penises become a norm, there may be enough to go around!
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Originally Posted by Jesse
I realize this is not news that relates directly to trans people as it stands, yet I am choosing to post it because it is important news that will hopefully improve lower surgeries for trans men in the not too distant future. -Jesse
"Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a penis transplant.
The organ will come from a deceased donor, and the surgeons, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, say they expect it to start working in a matter of months, developing urinary function, sensation and, eventually, the ability to have sex..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/07/he...unds.html?_r=1 |