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The last 2 pairs of ribs do not attach to the sternum, and are "floaters" that can be removed without too many problems.
It is a rare elective surgery for those professionally working the pageant circuit, but more commonly, people in extremely traumatic accidents just get these ribs taken out because there is no real way to brace a rib.
The difference used to be, traditionally those suffering from gender dysphoria are doing this to stop feeling a constant sense of what could be best described as nausea. For some, it really does work.
Today, we don't actually care if the troon is actually mentally ill.
Does anyone with more knowledge on the general body modification scene (including those Barbie/Ken people) know if it’s as predatory as the SRS surgery circles seem to be? I always got the impression they just quietly did their own weird shit without trying to talk everyone else into doing it too, but I could be wrong![:\](/styles/custom/emotes/svg/chris-confused.svg "Confused :\")
Generally, you need legal standing to have "surgery". This could be as simple as signing off on therapy sessions and signing a waiver, or as complicated as suing the govt for permission to go ham on your body.
Extreme bodymodding often is in a legal grey area, because most legislatures have a rather tautological definition for a surgical procedure, which amounts to "if a medical practitioner calls it a surgery then it is".
As a result of this, the extreme body mod crowd goes underground to get their fix, and accordingly develop their own networks and cultures that have peer pressure and one-upsmanship.
Sometimes a surgeon starts offering a bodymod procedure, retroactively making it illegal and suddenly you see a string of busts in the scene for "practising medicine without a licence", and you can bet there was some political fallout in the community.
Other times, the surgeon gets asked to do something but the surgeon refuses due to insurance implications. Sometimes you see a surgeon reprimanded for doing things like earlobe piercing during surgery.
This surgery is for children with polio whose legs became deformed, uneven in length or brittle. Since the legs have to be reinforced anyway, about ~15cm of height is added in up to 5 successive surgeries to match the patient's projected growth.
Polio is currently considered eradicated. Naturally, these surgical practices are now only seen in Asian nations where leg deformities are more common.
Incidentally, if you have leg alignment issues and you happen to break your leg, it will be straightened. What often happens in this case is the other leg is broken and re-set at the same time so you don't walk out with one straight leg and one crooked leg.
Also, orthopaedic surgery can only be performed by orthopaedic surgeons, so it is strange that these cosmetic surgeons are so willing to have their teeth kicked in by advertising these things.
Because stem cells are genetically male or female, and are grafted onto surrounding cells which are genetically male or female and already have hardcoded information on what cell they are meant to be.
In short, there is nowhere for stem cells to get the information that they are meant to become a neophallus or neovagina.
Also, stem cells are applied in a suspension that is a very thin film layer, about the thickness of single ply tissue. It would take ages to grow a usable sample for such a purpose.
revision surgeries from other surgeons since then, but he's still dealing with pain and complications.
