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The trans woman had six ribs removed from her ribcage in order to achieve a smaller waist.
Wait What? In early November, Emily James, 27, of Kansas City, Missouri, underwent a most unusual and expensive ($17,000) body-altering surgery, the New York Post reported. The trans woman had six ribs removed from her ribcage in order to achieve a smaller waist.
The recovery gave her plenty of time to think about what she wanted to do with those extra ribs—yes, the hospital gave them to her—and her options seemed limitless: Make them into dog toys, boil them down for broth, have an "Emily barbecue." But eschewing all the cannibalistic notions, James has come up with the perfect project: "I…
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