Dude, I'll take that if you're not gonna use it...

The world's first ever penis transplant has failed.

When I read the headline,"Man rejects first penis transplant," I immediately thought, "Oh, his body rejected the donor tissue and it fell off." Noooo. It was doing just fine. He asked his doctors to *cut it off*. He couldn't deal with having another guy's (OK, a dead guy's) dong between his legs. I guess it was weirding out his wife, too.

Although the operation was a surgical success, surgeons said they had to remove the penis two weeks later. "Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off," Dr Hu said. An examination of the organ showed no signs of it being rejected by the body.

Dude, do you have any idea how many transmen would have killed for a shot at a penis transplant?

Well, to be honest, I don't know how many FTMs would be comfortable with having that sort of frankencock either, but the topic of transplants (and growing dicks from stem cells) does come up in the FTM chat groups from time to time. It raises an interesting question: if doctors can now do penis transplants for bio men with mutilated genitals (this guy's peter was messed up in an accident), would they consider performing the procedure for transmen instead of cosmetically constructing a phallus? It doesn't seem like there's any reason it wouldn't be possible. And theoretically it might be easier for a transman to adapt psychologically to having someone else's penis down there, since he'd never had his own to form an attachment to.

Would I sign up to be on the donor recipient list? Ehh, I'm pretty leery of genital surgery in general, since it seems like there's so much that could potentially go wrong. So I'd say no. But damn, the idea of having a "real" dick (even if it's not fully functional) is pretty tempting.

Rules of evacuation

More men's room etiquette, this time in the form of a Sims-based machinima animation. It's a little long but has some funny parts.

It reminded me of the time I committed a severe men's room faux pas by speaking to my then-girlfriend's boss while in the john at their office. I had just walked out of a stall and he was washing his lunch dishes at the sink. I was still pretty new to the men's restroom rules, and I knew him, so I figured it was no big deal to say hi. Wrong. He quickly set me straight. He was polite about it, and he knew I was trans, so he probably cut me some slack. But he made sure to mention the fact that men never, *ever* engage in conversation while in the bathroom.

I've since learned this rule isn't totally written in stone, as I've overheard several men's room conversations in the past few years (mostly at colleges or in bars).

Cell phone conversations carried on in public bathrooms are another matter entirely. To me, that seems so much more wrong, for so many reasons.