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The former practice was to do "feminizing genitoplasty" or in other words, a sex-change operation on an infant boy,<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Total ablation of the penis after circumcision with electrocautery: a method of management and long-term followup
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|journal=J Urol
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|date=1989-09
|volume=142
|issue=3
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|pages=799-801
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/gearhart1/
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|DOI=10.1016/s0022-5347(17)38893-6
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}}</ref> however this was found to be unsatisfactory.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Diamond
|first=Milton
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|last2=Sigmundson
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|init2=HK
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|etal=no
|title=Sex reassignment at birth. Long-term review and clinical implications
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|journal= Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med
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|date=1997-03
|volume=151
|issue=3
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|pages=298-304
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/diamond1/
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|DOI=10.1001/archpedi.1997.02170400084015
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More recently, penile re-implantation using leech therapy has been described.<ref>{{REFjournal