Is it possible to donate ones' body specifically to transgender research upon death?

One of the things that's crossed my mind is the likelihood that survivors would want to "man-up" my body when I die and bury "him"

I can't do much about the name in the obit and so forth (as far as i know) but if I could take the body out of there hands it would be something.

and yes, donation to ANY research is better than nothing here but I was just wondering.

I don't know about transsexual-specific research, but that sounds like a good idea.

I wonder where mine would go, really. Probably will end up a man with a vagina, don't know if medical students want to practice on someone like me lol.

Quote from: SilverFang on December 27, 2009, 03:37:53 AM
I don't know about transsexual-specific research, but that sounds like a good idea.

I wonder where mine would go, really. Probably will end up a man with a vagina, don't know if medical students want to practice on someone like me lol.

I think it'd be pretty interesting. Even more interesting to be a model for a life drawing. I've heard of people doing that before. Then maybe we could examine the human body in a way that most people never have seen it before.

Quote from: Lachlann on December 27, 2009, 03:40:25 AM
I think it'd be pretty interesting. Even more interesting to be a model for a life drawing. I've heard of people doing that before. Then maybe we could examine the human body in a way that most people never have seen it before.

Maybe I'll think about doing that at some point. How many people would be open to that sort of thing though? I doubt others would appreciate it as we do.

Quote from: SilverFang on December 27, 2009, 03:42:24 AM
Maybe I'll think about doing that at some point. How many people would be open to that sort of thing though? I doubt others would appreciate it as we do.

Artists? They'd be extremely curious, seeing as being an artist is almost being like a scientist. We want to know how things work and in turn use that knowledge to create. I've seen a few life drawings of FTMs myself.

Doctors and Med students would probably be interested for much of the same reason.

Quote from: Lachlann on December 27, 2009, 03:46:36 AM
Artists? They'd be extremely curious, seeing as being an artist is almost being like a scientist. We want to know how things work and in turn use that knowledge to create. I've seen a few life drawings of FTMs myself.

Doctors and Med students would probably be interested for much of the same reason.

Meh, I'm just doubtful of people. I know I certainly feel that way, but I don't know many artists. I'll just take your word on that.

Anyway, we're derailing this.

My D/L is marked as a donor.  What they wish to do with it shell will be their business, as my soul won't be here.


Janet

Imagine the hilarity of some med students cutting into a postop MtF and after a while trying to figure out what's up with the subtle differences in anatomy, lacking ovaries, etc etc.

I'm sure to even a beginning med student those differences would not be subtle at all, and it would take most of them about a nano-second to figure it out (or at least to form a hypotheses, and start to test it).  We are talking about people in med school, who for the most part were the best students in the really hard classes.

That, and once you're all cracked open there on the table you ain't got that many secrets left to conceal.

And, most institutions taking a body will wait for it till after your family has its way with you (i.e. they will wait till after the funeral).  There is no rush, you're already dead, and its unlikely you're going to get any better.

Quote from: tekla on December 27, 2009, 11:18:41 AM
I'm sure to even a beginning med student those differences would not be subtle at all, and it would take most of them about a nano-second to figure it out (or at least to form a hypotheses, and start to test it).  We are talking about people in med school, who for the most part were the best students in the really hard classes.

I admire your confidence in medical students.

Once wore a tshirt with pictures of the insides of a person. Medical student came up, point to the lungs and asked what organ is that? That and many other experience during university at a leading uni with top medical school...

Yeah, most of the pre-med students I knew were really pre-vet, and large animal vet science at that.  Perhaps people doctors are not that good.  Most persons being worth a lot less than a prize bull or grand champion hog (in Iowa at least).  But I took anatomy at a med school so I could take it with a real cadaver, and those people were pretty good at what they knew.  Of course I tend to avoid real doctors in real life.