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Indeed. The current state of the art in vaginoplasty is nearly indistinguishable from the real thing; I think elasticity could be improved, but transwomen who can afford it are pretty well-served already. (Although affording it is kind of a huge deal; if this tech could be made significantly cheaper than standard vaginoplasty, it would be an enormous benefit to a lot of women.)

Phalloplasty, on the other hand, is somewhat disappointing right now--mainly because we can't yet create erectile tissue, so they have to resort to thing like pumps to get an erection. If we could create fully-functional penises, a lot of FTMs would be very happy.




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