China: Man offers to donate penis for odd woman - People's Daily

UPDATED: 12:40, July 22, 2005
Man offers to donate penis for odd woman - People's Daily

A man, who wants a sex change, offered to donate his penis to a woman, who wanted to be a man, the Guangzhou Daily reported Wednesday.

The man, 27, surnamed Xu, came from the countryside in southwestern China's Sichuan Province to work in Guangzhou.

Xu talked like a woman and showed some feminine characteristics, the report said.

The man, with six brothers and three sisters, said he enjoyed using his sisters' cosmetics ever since an early age.

He liked being friends with boys and tried to show his gentleness in the affairs.

However, his male friends stopped associating with him because they thought he was homosexual. He had attempted suicide three times, the report said.

"I am eager to have an operation for a sex change," he said.

However, he cannot afford the expenses and had to wait. When he learned that a woman, alias Gengzi, needed a penis to complete a sex change he thought he could give Gengzi his.

The donation was free as a blessing to Gengzi, he said.

"I'm not afraid of the danger in the operation to cut my penis, and am willing to be the first to donate a penis," he said.

However Gengzi has already had another "penis" attached, which was made of her own skin cut from the abdomen.

The hospital said the operation was smooth and they would operate on it again to implant a bone taken from Gengzi's chest to increase its hardness, the report said.

Chinese law did not forbid penis donation, said Lu Jian, lawyer with Guangdong Fazeming Law Firm, but doctors said penis transplant was unlikely to succeed.

A Chinese man had transplanted a donor's penis in 1993, but the organ failed after three months because of immune repelling effects.

Source: Shenzhen Daily