QuoteAs of 2006, Dr. Cinzia Marchese in Italy used Stem cells to grow a natural functioning vagina for 2 women. With this in mind, I am confident that the technology to recreate a vagina, uterus, and even ovaries for MtF transexuals is within a decade's reach. (In all actuallity, it could happen right now with the proper support.)

Proper SRS is at hand.

When this occurs, yes, we will be able to become pregnant, as well as say 'goodbye' to ANNOYING hormone regimens.

( I placed my edit above the below explanation because the technology does indeed exist.)

Under present available surgeries to the public at large, this is not available. The Sex Reassignment Surgery operation provides a neo-vagina from the penis, but no uterus. It will be possible with stem-cell therapy when we are able to grow replacement organs; it will be possible for a woman (biological or not) to have ovaries, a uterus, a vagina and fallopian tubes (and attending parts) lab grown and have them transplanted into the woman without fear of rejection.

All this will possible with out using cloning. Without more research into stem-cell therapy (non-blastocyte and blastocyte), personal organ replacement will not be possible. This same technology will stop many deaths because there aren't enough organ donors for people on transplant lists. An organ made form your own flesh will be a miracle for thousands, even millions of people.

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Baltimore, MD, USA.Val Smith [N1] is a forty-year old, male to female post-operative transsexual who is pregnant as the result of recent advances in neurobiology and the use of stem cells to grow viable human organs for use as a replacement for failing organs or the insertion of new ones to correct physical errors that occur during fetal development.

Scientists and doctors have used stem cells have been used to grow new kidneys to replace failing ones, new hearts to take the place of dying ones, and sexual genitalia when cancer has taken the old ones.

What are you guys thoughts on this?

This the first I have heard of it, but I definitely will voluntary.

Janet

I am not religious but playing God is a dangerous thing!

Medical research using stem cells and DNA should concentrate on the eradication of diseases such as cancer in all its various forms, diseases that kill millions.

In my opinion cloning is not a technique that should ever be used on humans, apart from replacing diseased organs, but at what cost financially?

Perhaps one day this type of research will find a cure for GID and we can all live in our birth gender, the cost of that will be far less than the current cure.

There are far more important things scientists to be working on....

Buffy

Quote from: Buffy on July 24, 2009, 11:23:33 PM
I am not religious but playing God is a dangerous thing!

Medical research using stem cells and DNA should concentrate on the eradication of diseases such as cancer in all its various forms, diseases that kill millions.

In my opinion cloning is not a technique that should ever be used on humans, apart from replacing diseased organs, but at what cost financially?

Perhaps one day this type of research will find a cure for GID and we can all live in our birth gender, the cost of that will be far less than the current cure.

There are far more important things scientists to be working on....

Buffy

This is going to sound really rude, and I don't mean it to be, so don't take it personal. What you said is often said by those not suffering G.I.D. or anything else they themselves do not suffer.

First off, I want my vagina.


As for the curing of G.I.D. and living as your birth sex (I am guessing that is what you meant)... Just because the feelings go away, it wouldn't erase the years of anguish you went through and the knowledge that things weren't right. I don't see how living as the birth sex, even if you "fix" the mind really fixes the problem. You can't undo what you already know and have experienced.

As for more important things, I agree there are to a certain extent, but...
You want to stop doctors who can make us who we want and need to be (which leads many of us to death) to stop and focus on more important things.  While you may see this as frivolous and a waste, I can't help but think it is at least as important or 100's of times more important than finding a better way to reduce wrinkles, or whiten teeth, or the new hair coloring, or how to hook more people on cigarettes. Yet there are millions of researchers working on this sort of thing. At least learning to make a vagina carries over to other things, like replacement arms, legs, hearts, and more.

I think we can handle a few doctors focusing on us without seeming a little selfish considering what all is being researched.

Important may not be as relative as profitable. These are huge corporations, they are not in business to make people 'well' as much as they are in business to make money.  So things like wrinkle cream sell more to more people.

Second, most of this research is very expensive, and for now a lot of it is underwritten by government funding, and I don't think your going to get funding for that passed.

To me, the thought of developing something to change people's mental gender seems more like "playing god" then making new genitals with stem cells.

Quote from: Mr. Fox on July 26, 2009, 06:42:48 PM
To me, the thought of developing something to change people's mental gender seems more like "playing god" then making new genitals with stem cells.

Wouldn't that be the same thing as living as a woman? To me it's no difference. Birth defect, it's something we can't help, why not fix it? I would love to be able to produce a child, and working inside organs.

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Quote from: Leslie Ann on July 25, 2009, 02:50:17 AM
This is going to sound really rude, and I don't mean it to be, so don't take it personal. What you said is often said by those not suffering G.I.D. or anything else they themselves do not suffer.

First off, I want my vagina.


As for the curing of G.I.D. and living as your birth sex (I am guessing that is what you meant)... Just because the feelings go away, it wouldn't erase the years of anguish you went through and the knowledge that things weren't right. I don't see how living as the birth sex, even if you "fix" the mind really fixes the problem. You can't undo what you already know and have experienced.

As for more important things, I agree there are to a certain extent, but...
You want to stop doctors who can make us who we want and need to be (which leads many of us to death) to stop and focus on more important things.  While you may see this as frivolous and a waste, I can't help but think it is at least as important or 100's of times more important than finding a better way to reduce wrinkles, or whiten teeth, or the new hair coloring, or how to hook more people on cigarettes. Yet there are millions of researchers working on this sort of thing. At least learning to make a vagina carries over to other things, like replacement arms, legs, hearts, and more.

I think we can handle a few doctors focusing on us without seeming a little selfish considering what all is being researched.

I feel as if, we have the same right as people with the type of major condition disease. Not saying we have a disease, but the life trauma of the things we been threw have been pretty rough, and personally, i don't think that something as in using stem cells to grow a vagina or reporductive organs is against the will of God. It's not going to help us live forever if we get that done, it would make us XX inside.