# Penis Transplant **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030 "2003-04-29T23:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/1 "2003-04-29T23:22:51Z")
[http://www.angelfire.com/ri/tucker/gender/genderstuff8.html](http://www.angelfire.com/ri/tucker/gender/genderstuff8.html) So, I was wondering. Assuming I, uh, had the need. And assuming Jeff Stryker (Gay porn star) decided to have a sex change and didn’t want his penis anymore. Could a qualified doctor make a couple of snips and successfully transplant? ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/2 "2003-04-29T23:48:50Z")
[Yep](http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,6038205%255E24217,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![mmmiiikkkeee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/edb3f5/32.png) [@mmmiiikkkeee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mmmiiikkkeee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/3 "2003-04-30T00:38:55Z")
I’ll bet most male porn stars make sure **not** to sign their organ donor cards from now on… [doctor (#1 on the transplant waiting list)] “nurse is he alive?” [nurse] “just barely” [doctor] “I’ll take that as a no” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/4 "2003-04-30T00:46:09Z")
Does it have to be from a human??? ---
**Author:** ![stoyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@stoyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stoyel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/5 "2003-04-30T01:15:06Z")
It doesn’t even have to be a penis. [http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2001/09/28/16583.html](http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2001/09/28/16583.html) ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/6 "2003-04-30T01:27:49Z")
It should be noted that most MTF reassignment techniques require an intact penis, which is destroyed in the process. It would not be possible for an MTF to donate her penis and also obtain a satisfactory surgical reassignment. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/7 "2003-04-30T02:40:03Z")
Do they use an erector set for scaffolding? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/8 "2003-04-30T02:40:39Z")
**KellyM** , I could google myself to death while probably more easily getting an accurate answer from you. Does your response above mean that an MTF sex change surgery involves basically turning the penis outside-in, and erectile tissue is removed and discarded in the process? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/9 "2003-04-30T02:46:48Z")
IOW, a sex change operation does _not_ involve removing a whole, intact penis? ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-transplant/172030/10 "2003-04-30T03:01:05Z")
**Ringo** , in the most common form of male-to-female reassignment surgery, known as penile inversion, that is exactly what happens: the sheath is turned inside out and used to line the vagina, while the glans is used to form the clitoris. The corpus cavernosa and the testes are removed and discarded. I am not aware of any form of reassignment surgery that preserves the penis intact or could be easily modified to do so. Any such procedure would be a nullification rather than a reassignment.