He has a unique situation. Dr. Whitehead is know for doing emergency surgery on trauma patients (like accidents). He also has a lot of experience of with Transgender Transformation.
"Dr. Whitehead is a surgeon who was trained in the art of gender reassignment surgery by Dr. Harold Reed, the now-retired urologist who performed GRS for decades"
He is married to his medical partner (Dr Alain Ramirez). A Yale trained anesthesiologist. Their surgery center is inside the clinic. For most doctors, more than half of the total cost pays for the outpatient surgery center. At this clinic, the surgery center is in house.
FROM THEIR WEBSITE:
"ON-SITE SURGICAL CENTER MAKES SURGERY MUCH MORE AFFORDABLE AND PRIVATE THAN USING A HOSPITAL
We are certified by the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (AAAASF). The operating room maintains the same standards as the finest hospitals. Having more control over every element of the operating room gives us more ability to make you feel comfortable, safe and with the utmost privacy. It is also why our fees are so much less than they would be in a hospital setting."
Thanks for those links. It was interesting to check out the doctors. My background is Ukrainian. I hear great things about Kyiv and Lviv and would love to visit sometime.
If a person is sure about their goals, and the doctor feels like he can trust the intent, many will help.
Most doctors (except for Dr. Arnkoff and Dr. Fara) don't advertise castration. Privately, many will agree to it. It helps them decide and explain it to insurance companies if you tell them that your testicles are painful. It might be that they are only emotionally painful. A medical justification helps avoid psychologist. If doctors have a good reason, they enjoy doing this type of surgery.
It's been easier since the summer of 2015, when the surgeon I found to help me, performed my nullification surgery then started speaking to his colleagues about it. I find no coincidence that when one doctor stuck his neck out and didn't get his head chopped off, then spoke with his colleagues, suddenly we have a lot more doctors helping us.
I know of 59 different nullos, including myself, whom I have a reasonable amount of proof are who they say they are.
Before it's asked... no, I won't be sharing that list. It's up to them to out themselves if they wish to do so, and many are known publicly. Of those 59, about 20 were pre-2015 nullos, and 39 are later. I think 2/3 of those 39 are people who have achieved this through the letter/doctor route. Many of the others might be the same, but I do not know that definitively.
Before 2015, most of us who got something done were satisfied to be castrated, when we could find help. Now most guys who have this kind of surgery go for full nullification at the start. There are still men like seanthomas who are happy to have gone with bilateral orchiectomy and stop, but I'd say these days the go-to surgery in our group is now complete nullification.
All this information I've gathered in my head over the years leaves me identifying a consistent problem today. The present problem beyond getting us officially recognized in the DSM with a standards of care to follow, is we have a great many brothers who are seeking this route and simply can't afford it. It's still prohibitively expensive for many of those who want to get surgery so their bodies match their identity, and finally stop suffering. Having come from that kind of background as a child and overcoming it, I have hope for them and am at the same time sympathetic to their situation.
It breaks my heart when I try to talk those folks off the ledge of doing something themselves... because I know they need it, but can't get it legitimately due to the cost being prohibitive. I also don't want to see anyone harm themselves in such a way as to endanger their lives, but completely understand their drive to get to the same body destination as I have.
If anyone is out there in this situation and needs an ear, I invite you to PM me. I may not respond immediately but I will eventually. I won't out you, and will let you get it off your chest with someone who has been there. Sometimes it helps to have a sympathetic ear to hear you, and offer sympathy. While just being able to talk about it with someone who understands you won't solve everything, being able to engage with others who have been there can be helpful when you're having a bad day with you desires.
Losethem (imported) wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:34 pm
All this information I've gathered in my head over the years leaves me identifying a consistent problem today. The present problem beyond getting us officially recognized in the DSM with a standards of care to follow, is we have a great many brothers who are seeking this route and simply can't afford it. It's still prohibitively expensive for many of those who want to get surgery so their bodies match their identity, and finally stop suffering. Having come from that kind of background as a child and overcoming it, I have hope for them and am at the same time sympathetic to their situation.
For many of us cost is the main factor for not seeking corrective surgery. It would be nice if surgery was at a more attainable cost for more of us, there would be many more of us living as eunuch and nullo.
I always give Losethem credit for waking up some of the gatekeepers to the need that some people need genital nullification to match their body to their identity. It speaks loudly that 39 of the 59 nullos that losethem knows had surgery post 2015. It doesn't surprise me that many go for full nullification in one step now that more surgeons are willing to do this.
For as long as I can remember I felt that I needed a vagina instead of my original equipment, this was the only surgical option that I knew of for many years. Later I learned that some people were castrated electively and a few had penectomies too, most all were done by cutters at the time. This was not something I would consider at the time, now that their are some creditable state side surgeons preforming genital nullification, I find it a option I'm considering if I come into a windfall.��
Someone should start a nonprofit that provides on demand, no questions asked castrations. Sell it as a way to help sex offenders do the right thing. No questions, no records. But then again it could strongly associate elective castration to being a sex predator...
I would hate to see elective castration and nullification being pegged as a sex predator prevention, bad enough that some people think think only gay bottoms seek out theses procedures
Elective and completely confidential castration services, for free, offered for all willing sexual predators, would sure save a lot of ruined lives and police, court, and prison costs ! Prevention is much better than repairing the victims and seeking justice and picking up the shattered pieces after the crime has been commited. So many ruined lives from sexual crimes or even sexual harassment or unplanned pregnancies for men.
From the look of it in these videos, not only can you get your balls lopped off legally in India (here they say it is for religious reasons, but that means elective surgery), but you can get it posted on youtube also. Here are the links. Personally I don't like looking at surgery of any kind:
