Dr. Brownstein is Retiring - Dr. Crane to Take Over Practice

Dr. Michael Brownstein, whose name is synonomous with “top surgery” for many, is retiring at the end of this year. Dr. Curtis Crane will be taking over his practice in the new year under the name “Brownstein & Crane Surgical Services.” In addition to male chest reconstruction, Dr. Crane will also offer metoidioplasty and multiple types of phalloplasty.

Dr. Brownstein pioneered FTM chest reconstruction and has been performing the procedure since the late 1970's in San Francisco.

Brownstein & Crane Surgical Services Facebook

At This Point in My Transition [video, lower surgery]

I posted a video this afternoon about a penis/sexual/psychological problem I've been having lately - it's a little hard to talk about, so I will just let the video do the speaking.



I also have come to a point in my transition where I am seriously starting to consider lower surgery and am starting the whole process of researching/consultation/figuring out funding.



It also feels really great to be back on T; I had to give myself an injection a couple weeks ago because my girlfriend (who is a nurse) was already at work. I am not the biggest fan of needles (that's why I started on T cream), but I like to still self-inject every once in awhile just so I don't get rusty at it and am able to give myself injections if need be.

Dr. Perovic, Trans Surgeon, Dead at 72.

Dr. Sava Perovic, gender reassignment surgery pioneer, has died in Serbia. He was 72 years old.

According to Yahoo news:

Perovic, a respected urologist, began gender reassignment surgery in the 1980s in Belgrade and soon became a leading expert.

With his team, he performed a number of surgeries abroad, mostly in Asia, including urologic and genital corrective procedures.

Perovic died after a long illness, the reports said without giving details. His funeral would be held on Thursday in Belgrade.

I was not aware Dr. Perovic had battled a long illness; my thoughts go out to his family. Dr. Perovic drastically improved FTM lower surgery throughout his career and his death will be mourned in the trans community.

Troy is Back from Lower Surgery!

As some of you might recall, I made a video about a month ago about Troy (tro23y) going to Serbia for his lower surgery. Since then, I have received many inquiries as to how he has been doing since the surgery.

He is doing really great! Check out his video about his lower surgery experience:



Since Troy is the only guy on YouTube (that I know of) documenting the process of lower surgery, here are his videos leading up to the surgery.











Here is the video I did for him wishing him good luck on December 6, 2009.

Troy is Getting Lower Surgery on December 8th!

Just a short video I made Troy wishing him good luck with his lower surgery coming up on Tuesday.

Here is a birthday video I made for him a couple years ago:

Here is a photo montage I made of documenting our top surgery experience. We had our surgeries done together on December 12, 2006 with Dr. Beverly Fischer in Baltimore, Maryland.



Good luck, Troy!