Don't try this at home: Man chops off his testicles in DIY sex change

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A man who was desperate to become a woman carried out a DIY sex change by slicing off his own testicles.

The 22-year-old hurled them into a park - and astonishingly waited 24 hours before going to hospital.
The man, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, was so determined to undergo gender realignment surgery that he decided to carry it out himself without the usual anesthetics.

He told stunned doctors in Accident and Emergency that he experienced 'a lot less pain' than he had expected - before doctors stitched his wounds and offered him psychiatric help.
Doctors used swabs, stitches and anesthetics as they tried to repair the damage.

A spokesman for Derbyshire's Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust said: 'A man in his early twenties presented himself at the hospital minus his testicles, which he had removed the previous day.
'He was treated, then discharged. We can say no more because of patient confidentiality - but this is pretty unusual.'
It was thought the man had been suffering from 'gender confusion issues' when he chopped them off and hurled them into Queens Park, Chesterfield


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scary to think i live there

have you been for a walk in the park recently? i wouldn't take your dog...

LMAO don't think i'll go there ever again

wow lol, must be pretty messed up in the head to try and do that themselves.

but he left his penis?

why didn't he just put his meat loaf between his legs and zack... saves the pain.

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Originally Posted by Casanova

but he left his penis?

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well i guess the testis are what make a man a man more than the penis, and one would assume you'd bleed to death if u chopped off ur penis


either way, ew.

Poor woman. Shows just how serious being transgender really is. It's very hard to live with.

I can only imagine it's extremely difficult living with this when some people would go to such lengths to fix it. I hope she's cleared for the full gender reassignment.

oh my god that made me feel a bit sick. hope he's ok/on the way to recovery now.

Oh god, i feel a bit sick now :(

I wonder if it will be a dog or a kid who will find them.

Ouch. I think it would be far more practical if he or she had just asked for a sex change. :rolleyes:

That has got me fealing a bit sick as well, cant belive he done that.

Wow well he's obviously nuts (no pun), and to think some people don't consider people with problems like this in need of serious mental help.

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Originally Posted by TheEclipse

Poor woman. Shows just how serious being transgender really is. It's very hard to live with.

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A woman? he is a man. He may no longer have testicles, but that is the scientific reality - he will always be a man just as a spade is a spade.

To call this man a woman is both insulting to intelligence, common sense and reality.

Ouch, that made me feel ill. How he could say it didnt hurt that much is above me.

Slightly... gross? :/

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

Wow well he's obviously nuts (no pun), and to think some people don't consider people with problems like this in need of serious mental help.

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why does s/he need mental help??? because they were so desperate to become a woman they took matters in to their own hands? that's what bothered me about the article. it's not that they need help, they just need support. they don't have a *mental* disorder nor are they wrong in the head, he just wants to be a woman. people do crazy things but it does not make them crazy. hey, some would say homosexuals need psychiatric help and that they're nuts but i'm sure you'd dismiss that...

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

Wow well he's obviously nuts (no pun), and to think some people don't consider people with problems like this in need of serious mental help.



A woman? he is a man. He may no longer have testicles, but that is the scientific reality - he will always be a man just as a spade is a spade.

To call this man a woman is both insulting to intelligence, common sense and reality.

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Here we go again! If someone identifies with a certain gender then it's only fair to call them by that gender. It's like calling a gay person straight all the time.

It reminds me of the Jerry Springer guy who cut his own legs off at the knees, obviously in need of mental help in order to do something like that;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGgAbOw9Io

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Originally Posted by buttons

why does s/he need mental help??? because they were so desperate to become a woman they took matters in to their own hands? that's what bothered me about the article. it's not that they need help, they just need support. they don't have a *mental* disorder nor are they wrong in the head, he just wants to be a woman. people do crazy things but it does not make them crazy. hey, some would say homosexuals need psychiatric help and that they're nuts but i'm sure you'd dismiss that...

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I'm sorry but cutting your genitals off, a) without anasetic & b) doing it by yourself - I would say in order to do that and not only risk your life, you are need serious mental help. As for the homosexual part, thats more comparable to the fact he wants to be a woman in the first place which I debated in the other thread.

I'm merely pointing out in this thread that to cut them off by yourself and without using anasetic is simply crackers.

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

It reminds me of the Jerry Springer guy who cut his own legs off at the knees, obviously in need of mental help in order to do something like that;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGgAbOw9Io



I'm sorry but cutting your genitals off, a) without anasetic & b) doing it by yourself - I would say in order to do that and not only risk your life, you are need serious mental help. As for the homosexual part, thats more comparable to the fact he wants to be a woman in the first place which I debated in the other thread.

I'm merely pointing out in this thread that to cut them off by yourself and without using anasetic is simply crackers.

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i personally do not believe in mental disorders.... you can't begin to imagine what they're feeling unless you're in that situation. it's just what they believe is normal and thus should be normal unless they specifically ask for help. i don't think any mental help would have done this guy any good, he doesn't want a penis and so got rid of it (well his testicles)... doesn't mean he's off his rocker he's just desperate. obviously no-one is gonna agree with me but that's because there's a huge stigma against what people do and why. i don't think anyone has a right to judge until they've been there. he's not out cutting off everyone elses penis fgs or else i'd say he be locked up. plus even though the article says it's uncommon i've heard of people doing this before so imo he doesn't need help. each to their own though. clearly i have very unpopular opinions when it comes to such topics but 'merely' pointing out? no. you were grouping together all transexuals as always being a man. i think you have some sorta vendetta against them.

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i personally do not believe in mental disorders.... you can't begin to imagine what they're feeling unless you're in that situation. it's just what they believe is normal and thus should be normal unless they specifically ask for help. i don't think any mental help would have done this guy any good, he doesn't want a penis and so got rid of it... doesn't mean he's off his rocker he's just desperate. obviously no-one is gonna agree with me but that's because there's a huge stigma against what people do and why. i don't think anyone has a right to judge until they've been there. he's not out cutting off everyone elses penis fgs or else i'd say he be locked up. plus even though the article says it's uncommon i've heard of people doing this before so imo he doesn't need help. each to their own though.

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I don't have a stigma, I merely think cutting your penis off without anasetic and by yourself thus endangering your life is a reckless and stupid act.

so now you're changing him from being mentally ill to just partaking in something self-destructive? can't really compare but isn't endangering your life just the same as smoking/drinking/bad diets etc. are they mentally ill too? cmon do you see my point or are you too blinded by your judgement on transexuals because that's the feel i'm getting from you.

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Originally Posted by buttons

so now you're changing him from being mentally ill to just partaking in something self-destructive? can't really compare but isn't endangering your life just the same as smoking/drinking/bad diets etc. are they mentally ill too? cmon do you see my point or are you too blinded by your judgement on transexuals because that's the feel i'm getting from you.

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I think there's a big difference between having a drink/smoke and cutting your genitals off without anasetic and by yourself, don't you? and yes I do think to do something like this to yourself you need to have some serious deep mental issues, which in this case have led him to do something self-destructive. Either way, he acted on them when he did not need to - thus putting his own life in danger.

So either way, mental issues or not - still reckless, crazy & stupid.

You've got to have balls to do something like that.

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

I think there's a big difference between having a drink/smoke and cutting your genitals off without anasetic and by yourself, don't you? and yes I do think to do something like this to yourself you need to have some serious deep mental issues, which in this case have led him to do something self-destructive. Either way, he acted on them when he did not need to - thus putting his own life in danger.

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no, it's exactly the same except cutting your genitals off is a much quicker process. people cut themselves with knives, they don't need mental help they need support just like this guy. like i said, he was so desperate "to undergo gender realignment surgery" that he just did it. having to wait years on a list for something you've probably wanted for most your life is gonna have some sort of impact on you. people just get frustrated and do things without thinking, it doesn't make them mentally ill >.< none of us can judge until we know and obviously he doesn't have that much control over his feelings. he didn't do it for the sheer pain or whatever, he did it because he wants to be a woman. it's different to WANTING to harm yourself, much like the self-destructive habits such as smoking/drinking/bad diets that i already said.
anyway agree to disagree. i agree that it was stupid, who wouldn't? i love how you change from saying he's mentally ill to stupid so idc anymore lol bye.

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Originally Posted by buttons

i personally do not believe in mental disorders.... you can't begin to imagine what they're feeling unless you're in that situation. it's just what they believe is normal and thus should be normal unless they specifically ask for help. i don't think any mental help would have done this guy any good, he doesn't want a penis and so got rid of it (well his testicles)... doesn't mean he's off his rocker he's just desperate. obviously no-one is gonna agree with me but that's because there's a huge stigma against what people do and why. i don't think anyone has a right to judge until they've been there. he's not out cutting off everyone elses penis fgs or else i'd say he be locked up. plus even though the article says it's uncommon i've heard of people doing this before so imo he doesn't need help. each to their own though. clearly i have very unpopular opinions when it comes to such topics but 'merely' pointing out? no. you were grouping together all transexuals as always being a man. i think you have some sorta vendetta against them.

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I sorta agree with you. To say something is a mental disorder would assume you'd have an objective understanding of what order is but I believe that 'reality' and 'disorders' are just socially constructed.

Despite that, if he's cutting off his testicles, he does need help. I think if we relate it to the other thread, Undertaker argued that it is just a thought that he wants to be a woman when in reality he is a man and will always be a man (unless I misunderstood). However, this case proves that thought and reality are not seperate, they're connected. What you think shapes your reality.

I agree that you have a mental problem if you cut off your balls like that but transexuality isn't a mental illness.

I hope they actually listen to her needs.

That would make for an interesting game of fetch.

At least he didn't claim 16K off the NHS for it. Well done him/her/it.

Interesting that it follows the story about the man wanting to be a woman and it costing the NHS to undergo the operation(s). It's weird, he doesn't seem to care that much and it doesn't appear to have done too much damage if he managed to walk into a hospital the day after. It's weird he only took the testicles off, he must of thought about it for a while to not remove the penis (afterall, if he did that he would probably of bled to death). Interesting story... I think...

Well, they keep the penis nerves to turn it into a ****oris and stuff, when they do a sex change. Removing the testicles would lower her testosterone at least.

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... I'm actually kind of offended that we can say 'penis' and 'testicles' but not *REMOVED* or is. It's not a dirty word, people.

Edited by Dean (Forum Moderator): Please do not avoid the forum filter.

Oh dear, I'm a little frightened that I'm not surprised at all by this.

I feel sick, but wow...crazy to say the least. I guess it must be hard for him so we shouldn't laugh, he's probably going through a really hard time, or was.