March 25, 2012
I hate to be pestering you, but I am unable to pay the $250.00 consultation fee to speak with you which is a bummer, since I really want to and I am currently unemployed at this time, so what do you propose I do about speaking with you on the phone, because I am in dire need of any financial assistance towards the GRS. 
Madeleine
March 25, 2012
Good morning Madeleine,
Our policy is to help many with some reductions of fee based only on need, rather than underwrite the entire costs of any one individual as we receive letters requesting assistance every day. Anticipate a 10% reduction in our already low fees, which are about 6000 lower than what others charge in the United States. Again, only a few positions are open at this time. We have noted 50% of our patients come in with a sponsor, could be a friend, spouse, significant other, business partner, relative, or church group.
Best wishes and have a restful Sunday,
Harold M. Reed, M.D.
305-865-2000
Good morning Madeleine,
We are not a bank. We have noted 50% of our patients come in with a sponsor, could be a significant other, spouse, family member, church group, business partner. Think this way, about half of American women get married and never work for wages another day in their lives. Learning how to support yourself is one of life’s most important lessons, because if you can do that, you are independent, and can look forward to owning a car, paying for an apartment and home, and perhaps someday even supporting someone else.
If the outstretched hands of every indigent person, seeking SRS surgery in the United States were touching each other finger tips to finger tips, without doubt the line would stretch clear across the United States. Yes, we can help some but as described below. Surely there are many doctors who do this surgery, and see what they say.
Best wishes,
Harold M. Reed, M.D.
305-865-2000
I’m not a biologist eeithr, but based on what little I know of the subject:The one real function the Y chromosome really does have is causing ovaries to become testes. So even if we used stem cells to regrow the ovarian/testicular tissue (and other genital tissue), and used anti-androgens to suppress the androgenic hormones that would trigger the masculinization process, they’d still end up developing into testes (even if they were undescended ones).UNLESS we were to use stem cells from a female donor, perhaps?I could see it being a possibility some day down the road. But it would be something that wouldn’t come until we’d already figured out how to go ahead and use them to regrow tissues.I think I heard somewhere that it’s partly a stem cell thing, and partly an environmental thing related to amniotic fluids and stuff, that causes regeneration and the development or healing of certain kinds of tissues to be possible in the fetal stage but impossible shortly after birth?I have absolutely no idea why we lose this ability after birth, or why its loss was selected for. Maybe its related to cancer? I think I heard somewhere that genetic predisposition to cancer is related to cellular aging and apostosis like cells that are more genetically robus, and less prone to apostosis, such as in people with webbing between their fingers or toes, are much more likely to be cancerous. Unchecked growth and all that.But again I’m not actually a biologist or oncologist or anything, and this is just pure speculation.