Phalloplasty
The topic engenders polarized debate within the transgender community - Noah Adams
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With the trans community growing more visible, so has the cis fascination with gender confirmation surgeries available to people of all genders. But this fascination tends to be paired with enduring myths among cis and trans people alike. For transmasculine people, one of the biggest myths is that constructing a neophallus—otherwise known as a penis—is too big a technical challenge to pull off and won't be "the real thing" anyway.
That myth isn't keeping pace with surgical reality, as it's come a long way since the first known phalloplasty for the purpose of gender confirmation surgery in 1946.
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Phalloplasty
The topic engenders polarized debate within the transgender community. Nowhere more than on internet support groups where, in the same thread, you will see some regard it as lifesaving and others as “frankendicks” that lack sensation and are “never good enough.” This body shaming would be unacceptable in any other context, yet it is routine with phalloplasty.
My Penis, Myself I didn’t need a penis to be a man. But I needed one to be me
Currently, there are only about a dozen phalloplasty teams in the whole country — mine started putting their world-class skills to phalloplasty use partly because they could get paid for it by insurance — and up until recently there was still at least one surgeon who wouldn’t allow patients to keep their vaginas, not because it was medically impossible but because he didn’t think it was right to have both.
Phalloplasty: techniques and outcomes
As patient goals vary widely, it is helpful to think about phalloplasty as a modular set of procedures that can be combined, mixed and matched to meet the needs of each individual patient while also taking into account their anatomy.
Phalloplasty: The dream and the reality
One of the most enduring dreams in medicine has been the possibility to replicate or replace human organs lost to disease or trauma. The phallus, symbolic of manhood, has received much less attention than the kidney, liver the heart or the breast, possibly because it is presumed that one can live without a penis.
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