Womb transplants given UK go-ahead

[stephaniec]

Womb transplants given UK go-ahead

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34397794

BBC/09/30/2015

"Doctors have been granted approval to carry out the UK's first 10 womb transplants, following the success of the procedure in Sweden.

The go-ahead has been given by the Health Research Authority - as part of a clinical trial - which launches in the spring.

Around one in 7,000 women are born without a womb, while others lose their womb to cancer"

[suzifrommd]

[Around one in 7,000 women are born without a womb, while others lose their womb to cancer"

That is a very cissexist statistic. FAR more than 1 in 7,000 women are trans, and NONE of us were born with a womb.

[Peep]

Is it possible to transplant a womb to a body that was born physically male? Is there like a space for the womb? Soz I'm not a biologist, and I was wondering this when i heard about this a while ago - if it's actually good news for transwomen or just news...

[stephaniec]

Trans-Uterus

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-mott/transuterus_b_4629589.html

The Huffington Post/y Stephanie Mott  Posted:  01/21/2014 2:33 pm EST    Updated:  03/23/2014 5:59 am EDT

"The recent CBS story regarding nine Swedish women who received uterus transplants undoubtedly caught the attention of transgender women throughout the world. Anyone, with even the slightest awareness of the advancement of medical science, understands that eventually there will be few things left in the realm of impossible. The idea that a transgender woman will one day be able to carry a child in her womb is no longer just an idea. It is a reality of the future."

[LizardFaceLizzy]

I probably wouldn't, although I would want to. I would just be afraid of complications with the pregnancy, so many things could already go wrong with pregnancy in a cis person, and I would be scared that there could be some unforeseen risk to the baby.

[iKate]

I'm just glad for it to exist so that people can shut up about how we aren't "real" anything.

[iKate]

I probably wouldn't, although I would want to. I would just be afraid of complications with the pregnancy, so many things could already go wrong with pregnancy in a cis person, and I would be scared that there could be some unforeseen risk to the baby.

No kidding. It's probably like any organ transplant.

"The recipient will need to take immunosuppressant drugs following the transplant and throughout any pregnancy to prevent the chance their body might reject the donor organ"

The real breakthrough will come when one is grown from stem cells, with little chance of rejection then.