A minotaur was a thing of power and majestic beauty, a human being with a bull's head a grotesque. Time for Ashley's body to be brought into harmony.
Finally, it was time for the breasts--the one nagging reminder of Ashley's original gender--to go. The fat was liposuctioned out and the breast buds surgically removed. Electronic stimulation of Ashley's muscles along with growth hormone and male hormone were building a wall of muscle around Ashley's core. A similar process took place in the buttocks, where the last bit of feminine softness disappeared.
But the real challenge was going to be in the legs, which would have to be adapted for hooves. The feet were removed and previously cloned hooves surgically put in their place. Nanites altered Ashley's bone and muscle structure to adapt to walking with hooves. The arms required relatively little work except for an ongoing process of muscle-building similar to that going on in the core. Ashley's hands were growing, but would always be proportionately a little small in comparison to his massive arms.
Finally, a tail was surgically attached to the base of the spine. Connections to the muscle and nervous system ensured that Ashley would feel sensations from it and be able to move it.
The hairy, powerful body on the table exuded masculinity, thought Dr. Erlanger, who was feeling another "emergency" coming on. Somehow that made the lack of a penis both more conspicuous and less important. No matter; tomorrow, the last day of transformation, would see the attachment of the external genitalia.