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Old 05-19-2008, 04:17 PM  
Drake
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
Plenty of parents have allowed this to be done to their newborn children.

"In extreme cases of micropenis, there is barely any shaft, and the glans appears to sit almost on the pubic skin. From the 1960s until the late 1970s, it was not unusual for sex reassignment and surgery to be recommended. This was especially likely if evidence suggested that response to additional testosterone and pubertal testosterone would be poor. If parents accepted, the boy would be reassigned and renamed as a girl, and surgeryperformed to remove the testes and construct an artificial vagina."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropenis#Surgery
Ah, micropenis. I've finally found the medical term for my condition. Cheers.
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