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- Mar 14, 2023
thank you for entertaining my dumb question.First link states that cloaca is on a spectrum, and they're only talking about "benign" cloacas, ones that are straightforward to repair. It recommends a specialist for any complex cloaca or one with a shared passage greater than 3 cm deep. That's not very big.
so basically, the fixable versions have most of the machinery for the separate channels intact? and anything more complex than this has poor treatment outcomes, especially compared to what SRS candidates have which is normally functioning genitalia.
i'm still stunned that such a horrendous birth defect could be curable even in its 'benign' state, but can also see why this type of surgery isn't used as a benchmark for troons- it paints a dark but more realistic picture for what we can achieve.