That article is interesting in talking about men still being and feeling like and wanting to live as masculine men after castrations or losing their penises. It is something that is very important to men losing their sex organs to illness, diseases, old age disfunctions, and injuries that is almost never talked about..

Even among men wanting elective voluntary castrations there are a lot who enjoy and want to stay masculine men even without their balls and who do take artificial testosterone to stay masculine and sexually able to perform as men.

Most voluntary castration is automatically assumed to be a desire to go from male to female. Not a man with balls to being a man without balls but still a man as the end result.

Medically necessary castrations are nearly always against a man s wishes and he wants to stay a man even if he can t save his balls and penis. Yet there is almost nothing written or said about all those men wanting to be masculine or hyper masculine men with no balls.

This article is a good start on talking about men with no balls staying men.

Thanks to LoseThem for being a pioneer to convince doctors like Dr. Crane to be more open about this.

Regarding a person's right to do what they want to their body, I totally agree in principle but I also think people need to be careful because they don't always know what they want. Some people are truly mentally ill and their desire is fueled by self-harm rather than identity. Some people are seeking identity but mistakenly think that eunuch-hood is the identity they want then they have regrets.

I think it okay for society and doctors to push back a bit when someone comes in wanting an otherwise healthy part of their body removed. I think the requirement for some time with psychological counseling is a reasonable compromise. It prevents the rash decisions and allows a person a chance to find out the root of their desire and realistic evaluation of their life afterwards.