Embrace Your Small Penis - or - It used to be a reason for transgender surgery in infants-!
For many years, the standard of care in pediatrics was to take boys born with very small penises (less than one-inch stretched at birth) and make them into girls: castrate them, turn their penises into “clitorises,” fashion their scrotum into labia, make a “neovagina” out of skin and/or colon. No, I am not making this up.
This is done much less often nowadays. (I am one of the people who helped change the practice.) But what bothers me is this: There never was any good evidence that a guy with a small penis couldn’t function as a boy or a man. The sex reassignments done on boys with “micropenis” were done for a vague quasi-Freudian notion that you couldn’t be a successful guy with a little one. There was absolutely no evidence that boys with small penises turned out to have female identities.
Meanwhile there was, here and there, pretty good evidence you could do OK as a boy with a small penis. (Take a look at the FAQ I wrote for ISNA on this.) But that was ignored.
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