SRS Guide – Your feedback is appreciated

[bee]

The following was sent as feedback:

I saw your request for feedback here
http://forum.tgr.net.au/cms/forumindex/F133/6488-srs-guide-your-feedback-is-appreciated#28301

In your page you only describe one type of SRS MtoF technique – the very much outdated penile inversion. I think you should also state that other techniques that offer much better outcomes are available as well. Penile inversion only plus, I can see is that the recovery time is small. The minuses are: vagina depth is totally related to penile length and the vagina ends up in a different postilion compared with born females (too high).

I think you should mention that cost is not necessarily a country basted criteria – costs can vary from surgeon to surgeon within a country – so I am not sure if your country based cost graph has much meaning. Also it is not always the case that higher cost means a better outcome. Clients should research carefully and listen to first hand experiences from clients from many surgery centers to make an informed choice. (Not 3rd hand hearsay) Usually a person only has one experience with one surgeon, so when some say ‘my surgeon is the best’ it is not a fact based statement, as they have no comparison experience. Researchers should also be aware that some clients think of their surgeon in spiritual terms and therefore their testimony could be non-factual as well.

In addition cost is not the only factor for the client to consider – other things such as the after care provided can be a huge determining factor. Some surgery centers will have the same surgical nurseries that were there with the client in surgery, visit daily to the client at their accommodation during recovery for up to 3 weeks. Whereas others will place the client on a plane and send them home 10 days after surgery.

I hope my comments may help you form your informational page

[Catherine]

Would appear to be a somewhat flippant, guide to a complex and serious matter.

More specifically “Patients may NOT chose any” of the listed procedures, regardless of their gender. That waste of editorial space suggests that I may be entirely happy as a MtF individual to just under go a urethroplasty and nothing more. I would love to find a surgeon who would be happy to consent to such fantasy.

The price of the procedure stated for the USA is completely false and misleading. Dr. Bowers who is considered as one of the most expensive is only $28K USD, even less if you are an Australian. The other figures are as equally inaccurate.

Bree. I’m somewhat confused by your understanding of penile inversion. It is still a very much used procedure. To my understanding, the surgeons I know of create a new void for the neo-vagina which is in exactly the same position as that of a normal gendered female while the head of glan penis is recessed into the previous position once held by the penis to form the new clitoris. Perhaps you may wish to elaborate on the other forms of GCS.

Yours respectfully

[Deleted User]

In my opinion one of the best websites to describe the various MtF SRS Options and Preconditions and post treatment is the Kamol Clinic in Thailand. This just happens to be the place where a national geographic story was made about a journalist observing the procedure.

Kamol wasnt mentioned in the Juno resource list so maybe they might have a look at them also as a potential partner for prospective SRS Clients

Caroline