When I first heard about this, I assumed it was simply another “fishy story” (couldn’t resist excuse the pun), however upon doing a little investigation, thanks to the miracle of science this is actually accruing.

A trans-woman has undergone a procedure called a “neovaginoplasty,” in which doctors “use the part of the animal skin that is usually just thrown away.” In this particular case the surgeon used the skin of a tilapia fish, to reconstruct the trans- woman collapsing vagina.

According to the New York Post, an individual identified as a 35-year-old Brazilian trans-woman has become the first transgender person in the world to have successfully undergone reconstruction surgery of the vagina, using the skin of a freshwater fish.

The technique uses a “tubular-shaped acrylic mold” that has been “wrapped with the skin” of the fish that has then been shaped into the form of a “biological prosthesis” to repair and extend the vaginal canal in an operation that takes about three hours.

According to the report: “The sterilized and odor free fish skin displays stimulatory cell growth properties, it is rich in type 1 collagen a substance that promotes healing and has a firmness and elasticity which is as strong and resilient as human skin.”

Adding, “The tilapia membrane attached to and recoated the walls of the vaginal canal acting like stem cells. These were absorbed into the body, transforming into cellular tissue similar to that of an actual vagina.”

The patient identified only as Maju underwent a sex-reassignment operation back in 1999 that caused her genitals to narrow and “collapse,” which intern made sexual intercourse extremely painful prompting her to abstain from sex although she was married.

Professor Leonardo Bezerra told FocusOn News about the procedure. “We were able create a vagina of physiological length, both in thickness and by enlarging it and the patient has recovered extremely well.”

Adding, “She is walking around with ease, has no pain and is urinating normally. In a couple months we believe she will be able to have sexual intercourse.”

According to Professor Bezerra what happened to Maju although unusual concerning the “traditional procedure” of surgically altering an individual’s sex organs from male to female, can at times be biologically challenging.

In a recent 2016 study the number of adults who identified themselves as transgender was 1.4 million adults, which actually doubled from a decade ago.

At the time Jody Herman, one of the authors of the study said “The findings from this study are critical to current policy discussions that impact transgender people.”

Adding, “Policy debates on access to bathrooms, discrimination, and a host of other issues should rely on the best available data to assess potential impacts, including how many people may be affected.”

The Study also found at the time that several states have 100,000 or more people who identify as transgender, according to the researchers: California, with 218,000; Florida, with 100,300; and Texas, with 125,350.

Young adults are most likely to identify as transgender, the researchers say, citing the 0.7% of adults ages 18 to 24 who do so.

In another recent study, this one conducted in the UK, a record number of children as young as ten years old identify themselves as transgender.

Even more distressing at least one child in the UK every day undergoes a gender transition procedure. The study also found that the number of children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have been referred to gender identity clinics dramatically increased over the last five-years.

One wonders at such a young age, if this isn’t a form of state sponsored child-abuse and willful malfeasance.