waiting on GRS?

[Angelyng357]

So, i may be new to here, but i am not exactly new to the idea of transgender and everything that goes along with it.  From what i've gathered about GRS, while i would love to have a vagina someday, I feel like the current state of the surgery is not quite to my liking.  I want to wait for there to be more progress towards simulating a cis woman's vagina before i have my own surgery of that.  Kind of throwing this out there, seeing what people think, agree, not agree, perhaps information i've missed about it. If, from what i've read, we do end up finding a way for transwomen to have a uterus and give birth, would having the current surgery ruin your chances of having that be an option for you? just thinking about giving birth in general, i'm thinking that C-sections are probably the only way we would ever be able to give birth. 

Thoughts?

[Laura_7]

Here are a few opinions:

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,205081.msg1824212.html#msg1824212


*hugs*

[Dena]

My personal viewpoint is that many of us would be beyond the age of giving birth by the time that type of surgery would be perfected. That would mean living all of those years waiting for something we wouldn't be able to take advantage of. You are talking about body parts grown in a lab at a high cost and more desirable parts like limb and organ replacement wold take priority over our parts. I have a 1982 model and the surgery has improved in appearance but functionally mine compares well with what is available today. In addition, my 1982 model could be update to modern appearance standards if I desired it however I am comfortable with what I have.

[Jenna Marie]

Personally, my vagina and vulva mimics a cis woman's in every way that matters to me (including being able to go to the gyno and be taken for cis). But I don't want  kids.

Pregnancy hormones actually loosen the ligaments that hold the pelvis together, so IF the full pregnancy hormonal experience could also be simulated, there's a chance that at least some trans women could give birth vaginally. (In other words, most non-pregnant cis women also can't fit a baby through there; the pelvis literally separates to some degree, and that degree varies from person to person.)