A penis transplant isn’t a punchline: Mocking this procedure could keep many suffering in silence

Thomas Manning (Credit: AP/Sam Riley/Mass General Hospital)
If ever there were a “don’t read the comments” kind of news story to show up in your feed, it’s this. Because two words: penis transplant.
Thomas Manning is a 64 year-old Halifax man who had his penis amputated in 2012, after what he describes as a “debilitating work accident followed by a devastating cancer diagnosis.” But now, after a 15-hour procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital earlier this