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‘Rather than feeling sexually repressed, it’s given me a kind of freedom’
A transgender woman from the Philippines was forced to have a testicle removed after years of tucking caused her serious pain
Trinity ‘The Tuck’ Taylor has made a video on how to tuck. She warns of the dangers of testicular torsion – when a testicle twists around the cord it dangles from – in the video
Doctors were told she regularly tucked her testicles into her inguinal canals, which are passages in the abdomen that hold the sperm cords.
The reduced blood flow causes sudden and often severe pain and swelling.
Signs and symptoms of testicular torsion include:
Young boys who have testicular torsion typically wake up due to scrotal pain in the middle of the night or early in the morning.
Her case — published in a medical journal — also revealed she would tuck her penis and empty scrotum back between her legs.
Dr Clarence Debarbo, author of the case report published in
He said: ‘The patient already experienced discomfort and pain for six years because of tucking, which is also the same with other transgenders.
‘Although at younger age, trans women desire to hide their testicles or wish to have gender-affirming surgery, as they grow older many transgender individuals desire to have biological children, thus awareness of the problem should be disseminated for them not to resent in years to come.’
