Why can't a surgeon transplant all female organs into a male body?

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Q. Why can't a surgeon transplant all female organs into a male body

Response by Chrysalis


A.  The eternal question and dream of the transsexual. Although the technical skills are probably available to handle the operation itself, there are so many other things that have to be taken into consideration.
Not the least of which is that the male pelvis is not designed to handle child birth, so that would have to be modified to do so, read "broken and expanded to allow passage of at the very least a large grapefruit or a medium sized cantaloupe". That in and of itself would be a major undertaking requiring at least 2 months of recovery before any of the other procedures could be done.
Another consideration is something called tissue/blood compatibility/matching, as difficult as it is to find donors for other organs and the relatively few that are successfully matched the probability of finding a donor drops significantly. Along with the tissue and blood match goes the anti-rejection therapy drugs that would probably become a lifetime necessity.
A third and probably very significant thing to consider is there any qualified surgeon in the world that would attempt such a feat?? With the litigation minded society that we live in today it is hard enough for these doctors to get malpractice insurance for the generally accepted surgeries, I would imagine that finding a company to cover complete female to male reproductive transplant would be less than slim to none.
Then of course there is the slight matter of cost. Not being a medical professional nor a hospital CEO, I can only guess that the cost of such an operation would run in the high six figure bracket. Couple that with the fact that as with all other SRS/GRS surgery payment would be expected in full in advance you would have to be a multi-millionaire to even consider such an undertaking.
Medical science has made tremendous strides in surgery and treatment of a lot of major diseases/disorders/illnesses but I do not foresee this type of an operation feasible for many many years if ever.
You must understand, that I am not a medical professional, but only a reasonably well informed member of society and that these are by no means all of the obstacles that stand in the way of such a procedure. These are but a few of the interesting situations that came to mind as I thought about your question.


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