But a transplant from any donor other than an identical twin would require immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection. But he would not transplant testicles as part of transgender surgery, he said. The first report of a testicle transplant, by Dr Sherman Silber, a fertility specialist in St. Louis, was published in a medical journal in 1978. He spent five years searching for a doctor who could perform a testicle transplant before he found Silber, after reading a New York Times article about his work published in 1975. “So doing a testicle transplant was not a big deal,” he recalled in an interview Thursday.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2019 11:15 UTC