Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion

by Allie Beth Stuckey

construct the vaginal lining. In some cases, there is not enough skin to achieve the necessary vaginal depth, so surgeons will take a skin graft from the upper hip, lower abdomen, or inner thigh. During the surgery, the surgeon installs a mold inside the new vaginal canal for a few days to make sure it doesn’t collapse. After it’s removed, patients need to shove a plastic rod called a dilator up their vagina regularly in the years following surgery to make sure it stays open. If it closes or swells—a common complication since the body interprets the cavity as a wound—patients risk infection and incontinence. Recovery from a vaginoplasty is brutal: symptoms can include swelling and soreness, phantom pains at the top of the now mangled penis, urethras too swollen to allow urination, and perhaps a lifetime of incontinence and sexual dysfunction requiring even more surgeries to fix. Phalloplasty is even more dangerous. In these highly dangerous surgeries, surgeons create a penis-like appendage and urethra from tissue somewhere on the body, usually the forearm or thigh. Often the tube created with the rerouted urethra simply doesn’t work.