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- From: annick@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Annick Ansselin)
- Subject: Re: Sex Organ Transplant - more info please
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:36:46 GMT
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- In <swood.712269911@vela> swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG) writes:
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- >I heard a quick tidbit the other day about a sex change operation that
- >was alledgedly just completed somewhere in East Asia (Japan I think)
- >in which two willing individuals (one male and one female) agreed to have
- >their sexual organs exchanged to allow for a change in their gender as
- >per sexual preference.
-
- This has got to be a joke! For one thing, unless they were identical twins
- (in which case the sex would be the same and the exchange impossible!)
- the exhanged parts would be rejected without immunosuppression - for the
- rest of their lives.
-