Top fertility experts have expressed the possibilities for trans women to get womb transplants in the future. This breakthrough will enable biologically born males to bear children, which is currently an impossible feat.
There are rallyers who claim that trans women should also be capable of bearing children the same way that biologically born women are. However, there are some who do not agree with such claims. The Daily Mail reports that there are critics who have seen the endeavor as selfish and that insults motherhood. Nevertheless, this is something that specialists are exploring.
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Can Trans Women Bear Children After Undergoing Womb Transplants?
According to the Daily Mail, women with infertility, from all over the world, have already been able to bear children thanks to such efforts. For this to be reflected in biologically born men, there is a need for only small adjustments, according to globally renowned transplant specialists.
In fact, a team from renown Cleveland Clinic in Ohio conducted a womb transplant in North America, which marks the first of the area, that was from a deceased donor. A child was later on born out of this transplanted womb.
The team also expressed in their publication in the Fertility and Sterility journal that the surgery could possibly be performed among biologically born men as well.
Lead author Dr. Rebecca Flyck expresses how not making the procedure available to trans women would be discriminatory. Dr. Flyck mentions that as society recognizes discrimination and inequality faced by trans women, it is important to question whether trans women should indeed be denied such clinical trials because of their gender.
Dr. Flyck also expresses that allowing trans women to access such womb transplants would help alleviate the mental distress that they faced due to being unable to completely embrace the gender identity that they have chosen. She further adds that the availability of such procedures for trans women is a matter of "when" and not "if."
She says that the first womb transplant with a trans woman could happen in the coming years or sooner.
The operation procedures are not explicitly stated in their article. However, there are chances that the first step would be for the trans women to go through vaginoplasty so that the trans women's body would mirror a biologically born woman even more.
Womb Transplants and Fertility
The Daily Mail reports that there have been around a hundred globally performed womb transplants since the year 2014. Such a year was when the operation met its first success in Sweden.
According to JAMA Network, there were 33 women in the US who were recipients of uterus transplants from 2016 up to 2021. They reported as of July 2022 that there were 19 of them who birthed 21 babies in total.
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