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I passed the information to a couple of endocrinologists with whom I work and who specialize in transgender issues. It took a bit of bugging, but the responses that I got are not really helpful. The more helpful one ran:

I think the vocal cord changes in most youth often occur before the age of 17 ...

I want to thank everyone who took part in the survey. An article based on the responses is now awaiting peer review at an appropriate journal. This can take from weeks to months before we hear back. (I've had one take over a year!!!)

A film (probably only roughly) based on Anne Rice’s novel is currently under production. Rice is credited as the script writer, but the storyline posed on IMDb seems a bit off. The starring role is to be played by Owen Cooper, now 14 years old, who starred in the drama Adolescence . The film will be ...

Talula, the second chief archivist of EA2, passed away a couple of days ago. His body was found this afternoon, in bed, still attached to his dialysis machine.
Kriistoff, the third chief archivist, was placed into a memory care facility last week by his sisters. His dementia had progressed to the ...

People and pets come first. Things can wait. I'm glad that neither you nor your partner were injured. I hope that the pets will be O.K.

I want to thank those EA members who have taken the time to complete the survey. Your information is valuable. We still need at least a couple responses from members who used the WPATH Standards of Care in their search for proper treatment, whether for surgery or for other care. We want to have a ...

Thanks for sharing this experience. I was always curious about the MOM events, but never made it to one. I remember they were held in Minnesota. I think Minnesota and Wisconsin are nice central locations that are fairly easy to get to and quite nice in the summer. At some point, though after the ...

NEW SURVEY – Usefulness of the WPATH Standards of Care

The Institutional Review Board at the University of Hawaii finally approved our new survey. Our goal is an article in a medical journal consisting of brief biographical accounts of the use of the WPATH Standards of Care. Should you be willing ...

I do find it ironic that there were estimates of about a million Skoptsy, while they claimed that the magic number to make JC show up was 144K - last time I checked that is considerably less than one million - didn't someone notice?

WheelyFixed


The general interpretation of the Skoptsy is ...

I had lunch with Jamie Agapoff a couple of days ago. We talked about where next we needed to do research and writing in support of the eunuch community.

The WPATH SoC8 has been out for two years now and individuals have been able to use it to obtain proper care. We thought that an article that ...

I originally sent a version of the post below to WheelyFixed. He recommended that I post it here. While it involves minors, it is both from a current newspaper account and historical material.

An article about “bacha bazi” in Afghanistan was published in the Daily Mail on March 9, 2025 (https ...

I just received a copy of Gender in the Ancient Near East by Stephanie Lynn Budin (309 pp.). I immediately turned to the ten-page section on “ eunuchs ” in the chapter on masculinity. Budin argues that the word that means “ castrated ” when referring to donkeys, sheep, and pigs, means “ clean-shaven ...

About two years ago, I wrote a piece for EAv.2 when I finally, after a couple years of effort, managed to acquire a copy of Nadia Maria el-Cheikh’s “Servants at the Gate: Eunuchs at the Court of al-Muqtadir” (Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2005, 48 (pt.2), pp. 234-252 ...

The Tomb of the Prophet in Madinah is still guarded by a small group of elderly eunuchs. A large coffee-table book celebrating them was published in Saudi Arabia in 2020. The book, The Guardians (written and photographed by Adel al-Quraishi) begins and ends with large portraits of the eunuchs. In ...

NaturalEunuch asked after my post on Origins of Eunuchs and Human Castration, whether China had eunuchs before the Sumerians. In that post, I wrote, “The first documented instance of castration where the person was expected to live and be productive (as a slave) is from the Sumerian city of Lagash ...

Work began in 2017 toward SOC8 with a determination by the board of WPATH on a tentative list of chapters. Authors were then chosen to begin work and drafts ( MANY drafts) were circulated among the editors and authors. Some changes were made in chapters along the way and at least one chapter was not ...

The earliest discovered mention of human castration in China is on an oracle bone that is hundreds of years later than the eunuchs in Sumer. The earliest clear mention of intentional eunuchs comes after trade contact with the Middle East. I will post some historical information about Chinese eunuchs ...

Castration began long before the first intentional eunuchs, whom I define as humans castrated for the advantages that they then provide. Castrated with the intention that they live following their surgery.

Among our closest relatives, the chimpanzee, a defeated male sometimes has his testicles ...

With the upcoming closing of the Eunuch Archive on January 1, 2025, it would be useful to have a listing of alternative web sites for castration and eunuch information. Here is a place to provide information for others to use.

For each listing, please give:

Name of web site,

Internet address,

A ...

Unfortunately, much of the information that we have about the health situation of historic eunuchs and castrati is merely anecdotal. We do not have much clear data to work with. There is a bit of medical data from the first half of the 20th century (primarily on the Russian Skoptsy) and there has ...

Congratulations in your 9th. May there be many more. You've been a great help and inspiration for the entire community. Your help and advice is always appreciated.

I doubt (or at least hope) that there is never a more complete study of the impact of castration on human lifespan than the Kansas study. Such as study would require a random set of males of various ages to be castrated and then followed through to their death from whatever cause and comparing them ...

Good news. It's great to hear that you are on the mend, and more quickly than I remember others posting. I hope that you will find this to be a great improvement in your life.

Congratulations on finally getting there. It's taken far tong with too many roadblocks along the way. I hope that your struggles help to make it easier for those who follow. You've been a great role model as you've struggled with the bureaucracy.

Congratulations! That's great news.