1st Functioning Penis Transplant: Doctor mentions potential for FtMs

[JHeron]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/trickiest-part-first-successful-penis-transplant-finding-donor-180954639/

He mentions his concern would be the lack of tissue that a clitoris would have as opposed to bio males (who lose their penis') who have stumps with some erectile tissue. Essentially (super layman a terms) he attaches the nerves from the stump to the nerves of the donor penis.

However if an FTM has a metoidioplasty with a urethra extension, then I could see this potentially working similar to this first case. They're already got another 10 surgeries planned for bio men but this is very exciting for me. Especially because he even mentions ftm clearly he doesn't think such a thing is out of the realm of possibility. Consider that this 1st patient didn't have any tissue left in his stump (because of infection) so they attached an abdominal nerve to the nerves of the donor penis instead. Even so he can still get erections normally.

What do you guys think?

Would this be reason to wait for some you? It is for me personally.

Are you skeptic?

[AeroZeppelin92]

This is the most promising article I've read on the subject. The only thing that puts me off from donated penises, personally, is the need to take immunosuppressants to prevent your body from rejecting it. I don't think I could take that degree of emotional trauma to have a penis and then lose it. I really hope that medical science will advance enough in my lifetime for them to create them from stem cells, 3D print or what have you, but I may just settle for phalloplasty in the mean time.

[ChloëAri]

This is great! It would be good, I think, to be able to have an erection without having to pump it up. Still, phalloplasty is still a good option for the moment.

They've done this with uterine transplants and I think we may see both types soon.

[JHeron]

This is the most promising article I've read on the subject. The only thing that puts me off from donated penises, personally, is the need to take immunosuppressants to prevent your body from rejecting it. I don't think I could take that degree of emotional trauma to have a penis and then lose it. I really hope that medical science will advance enough in my lifetime for them to create them from stem cells, 3D print or what have you, but I may just settle for phalloplasty in the mean time.

True but I personally don't know much about the treatment after the transplant. The doc briefly mentioned it but if it's not too extreme (perhaps a few pills every day) I'd probably be fine with it considering the pros being fully functional natural erections and etc. What scares me is that I wouldn't want to go through phalloplasty and one day just cut it off when the technology or transplant became an option