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Would you get a womb transplant

Started by Sarah leah, November 25, 2015, 08:48:03 AM

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The article below states trans people could have the ability to give birth in less than 5-10 years. So if given this option would you carry a child to term?

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Debra

I'm definitely interested....but  my husband who's 22 years older than me, prob not so much.

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Squircle

In its current form, no way. Surgery is a big deal and anti rejection drugs can have a major impact on your life expectancy. It just sounds like way too much risk for a compromise right now.
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katrinaw

Yep I would have, bit late now tho :(

Hurts me watching childbirth so would have liked the experience of bring someone to  life and nurturing them through life.

Katy xxxx
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Carrie Liz

I've always wanted to have a child of my own.

With that said, with the state of medical technology right now, I don't feel like for me it would be worth it.

It's just too expensive, just too many possible complications, too major of a surgery, too much hassle just to keep your body from rejecting it, and even though it would allow me to carry a child we're still not at the point where I could biologically be the mother of the child, I'd have to use donor eggs, so really it's still basically adoption, albeit "adopting" a child that you give birth to yourself.

We're getting close to technology that will make it possible one day. And if we were in that medical future, where a trans woman can have a womb grown from her own cells, impregnated using her own egg cells converted from stem cells, and in an era where such things have become commonplace and thus reasonably affordable, I would do it in a heartbeat.

But regrettably, for now the reality is that I just don't think for me it would be worth the pain and hassle and expense and overall imperfection of this in-its-infancy technology. And I doubt that it will be advanced enough before I'm too old to benefit from it.
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sumcr8r

I recall an article many years ago about researchers studying this very thing. I haven't thought about that article in quite awhile,
I too have spent much time saddened by the fact that I will never bear children. I çant imagine anything more miraculous or awesome, regardless of tje pain and discomfort than carrying and giving birth to ones offspring.

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Catherine Sarah

In less than a heartbeat.


Speak to you as soon as I'm out of the OT

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Catherine




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TG CLare

Well, no I wouldn't opt for that. First of all I am way too old and I have never had maternal/paternal urge to have a child of my own. I don't mind other people's babies but once they reach the age where they can say my tummy hurts and use the bathroom on their own, for me their life expectancy goes waaaayyyyy up! Not everyone is cut out to be a parent.

Anyway, if I thought GCS was bad, I can only imagine what that must be like!

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Christine Eryn

In my late teens or early 20s I'd say yes if it included the whole package. Nowadays hell no.
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Laura_7

Quote from: Christine Eryn on November 26, 2015, 03:18:33 PM
In my late teens or early 20s I'd say yes if it included the whole package.

Lets hope for starship enterprise technology  :)


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TGSine

Quote from: Sarah leah on November 25, 2015, 08:48:03 AM
What are peoples thoughts on this post?


https://www.yahoo.com/health/surgery-could-give-men-wombs-1302360099545142.html


I would jump at the chance as I love children and would love another of my own :)

Yes, I want to be a mom...my boyfriend who knows I'm a MtF gets kidded at school would love to have me as his wife...I would be a great mommy. I help mom with my 14 month old brother.
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Dayta

Quote from: Laura_7 on November 26, 2015, 03:35:34 PM
Lets hope for starship enterprise technology  :)

Ya think!? 

In the purely hypothetical, yes, I would.  My wife and I joke that if I could, we'd already be pregnant. 

Realistically, pretty much zero chance. 

I'm too old (mid 50's). 
I haven't even started to think about any kind of transition if, let alone when. 
I'm currently on bone density meds so I'd be risking a lot if I did go onto hormones, probably. 
I'm also on thalidomide-derivative meds for some bone marrow issues, which I'd have to go off of, and again, risk large consequences. 

It is kind of fun to think about though. 




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iKate

I'm no medical doctor or biology anything but from what I was reading the "holy grail" is when they can figure out how to direct cells to produce certain types of tissue. Right now lab grown anything needs similar cells, I believe. Maybe with genetic engineering and gene splicing it could happen. You get some donor tissue (maybe from your mom or another willing female relative), splice in your genes to prevent rejection and grow that into a uterus. That would be the way to do it without the "holy grail."

But with the ability to direct stem cells to produce any kind of tissue that won't be needed.

Right now though I think that is science fantasy more than anything but that's how I see it happening.

There are also "ethical" issues to overcome but I think once it's available anywhere in the world we will travel to get it.
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Dayta

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Quote from: iKate on December 12, 2015, 08:39:06 AM
There are also "ethical" issues to overcome but I think once it's available anywhere in the world we will travel to get it.

I'm curious about your take on ethical issues, what do you think they are: limited resources, as in how do we choose who gets them?

Regarding the science, I understand that making the functional cells is the "easy" part.  Getting the cells to come together as functional organs is another story.  Scientists have been able to create replacement bladders by planting created bladder cells from stem cells onto an organic framework.  But the bladder is a pretty simple organ, just a storage tank for all intents and purposes.  (Not that I couldn't use more storage, right?)  They're still pretty far away from building a heart, even though they can create living cardiac cells. I imagine that building a functional uterus is yet another level of complexity. 




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Lyndsey

Quote from: BeverlyAnn on November 25, 2015, 07:21:12 PM
So let's see.  I'm 66 so five to ten years would make me between 71 and 76.  Nah, think I would pass.  Now if I was between 21 and 26 that would be a different matter.

Hi Beverly Anne

I have to laugh I will pass too I'm 58 and have three from my Passed. I think at this stage the thought of raising another child. Someone put me in the looney bin. LOL  >:-)
Although if I was young I would definitely consider it so yes for that. :angel:

Hug's Lyndsey
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Kova V

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Elsa Delyth

Interestingly enough, on something of a tangent, a natal female presenting and living as a man was the first to perform a successful c-section in Europe in centuries. They learned how to do it while serving in the military in south Africa, if I remember correctly. The significant thing was anesthetics. Since the church believed that women were supposed to feel the pain of child birth because of the biblical fall, they were denied anesthetics, meaning that c-sections were attempted without any, which also led to shock, and death for a few centuries. Good ol-Christians.

The problem with any major surgery is that it is rough on the body, and the stress of it reduces your life-span. I would do it if it were like, the full package, to just receive female internal organs grown from my own DNA. I would also prefer to be inseminated from a woman, from synthetic sperm made of her cells (which is also something they can do), that would be pretty damn cool in my mind. Otherwise not so interested.   
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Wild Flower

Yes..... But no.

Only will do this if the transplant is identically safe for the baby as a natural womb. And if I was still under 45 and I had a top knotch doctor ensuring that the baby will come out alright. Finally, if the baby was my own.

I want no baby to suffer for my selfish desire to be pregnant.
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Moomin

Don't let anyone ever dull your sparkle!
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Wild Flower

Wouldnt our articicial hormones feminize the womb?

Im being honest.
"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."
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iKate

Quote from: Wild Flower on December 12, 2015, 06:31:20 PM
Wouldnt our articicial hormones feminize the womb?

Im being honest.

During pregnancy estradiol and progesterone levels are many times ours.

IVF procedures also use hormone regimens somewhat similar to what MTFs use. I know because we were IVF patients and had to do the injections daily.

So no real risk. The womb also keeps out the mother's blood supply from mixing with the baby's.
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