Top San Francisco phalloplasty surgeon now with 8 malpractice suits

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Very disturbing read. One young TIF has ended up with 20 surgeries and debilitating health issues.

There should be a lot more awareness and concern about this from trans advocates and media outlets.

4thwavenow.com/2018/03/26/update-san-francisco-phalloplasty-surgeon-now-with-8-malpractice-suits/

I'm sure this is why some transpeople don't have 'bottom' surgery, despite body dysmorphia. Such a risk, and even a 'good' outcome is nothing like the real thing.

I saw this unfolding on Twitter with 4th Wave Now challenging LGBT/trans media to write about it. The surgeon concerned has apparently been feted by them in the past and also appeared cheerleading for transition in several prominent US documentaries. Any fall from grace should surely be covered by them if only to warn off potential TIF patients.

4th Wave got crickets in response, except for one pro-trans account who was only interested in shouting at them for even asking the question.

Honestly, at this point, how there is anybody left that cannot see this as a male supremacist movement completely baffles me.

That's awful Lang why is it they don't care? Oh wait.....

Nope - this never happens
Rushes in, pulls down blinds, no oxygen of publicity please, move along, nothing to see, sprinkles fairy dust, counts to 80 billion, crosses fingers, deny deny deny ad nauseam.

Meanwhile in the real world, great harm is being done .......

I wish it hadn't been obvious that this was going to happen. And because everyone knows that TIFs are women the usual no fucks given attitude towards women's healthcare will mean that the media ignores it and the plaintiffs won't get anything like the compensation they deserve.

Urgh. Reading the details of those procedures and how they went wrong is really queasy stuff. Horrendous damage some of those people have endured. And to have to live with it forever. It’s horrific.

I wish it hadn't been obvious that this was going to happen

This whole thing is like helplessly watching a very slowly unfolding car crash. It's all so horribly predictable. And there seems to be nothing we can do about any of it.

Except that if they come anywhere near my children I shall seize them and flee the country

It would seem that phalloplasty as procedure has a very high complication rate with a significantly higher rate among transmen.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29019859

Sorry the above was from a recently published meta-analysis. Trans men had a urethroplasty complication rate of just under 40%. It would be interesting to know how many this surgeon has performed and if his complication rate is higher than average.

Beyond me how "phallo" has ever been sold as a worthwhile option for "trans men". It's such a risky, painful procedure, leaving the patient unable to use their arm for weeks, with issues with strictures, fistulas, and necrosis.. And it's not like they end up with anything like an actual penis, even if it is a "successful" operation. It's absolutely the most cynical exploitation of vulnerable young women.

Has anyone picked up on this story from monday?

mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1H22UD?__twitter_impression=true
U.S. jury orders AbbVie to pay $3 million in AndroGel retrial

A U.S. jury on Monday ordered AbbVie Inc to pay more than $3 million to a man who claimed the company misrepresented the risks of its testosterone replacement drug AndroGel, causing him to suffer a heart attack, though the jury did not find AbbVie strictly liable.

So testosterone in men, is doing harm, which the pharmaceutical companies are liable for.

More than 6,000 similar lawsuits have been filed, the bulk of them against AbbVie.

Also

According to court filings, the jury on Monday concluded that AbbVie had not falsely marketed the drug and was not strictly liable, but found that the company acted negligently.

And

Other pharmaceutical companies are facing similar lawsuits over their testosterone replacement therapies.

Nothing to see here...