Transgenders that switched from being a male to a female may soon be able to bear children of their own, thanks to the growing possibility of uterus transplants.
Earlier this month, a clinic based in Ohio revealed plans to take uteri from deceased donors and transfer them to cis women – women whose personal identity matches the
biological body assigned to them at birth – who suffered from uterine damage or didn’t have a uterus at all, reports the Huffington Post.
However, in Sweden, doctors have reportedly successfully transplanted uteri in nine cis women, which they have taken from living donors. From this, five pregnancies and four births were achieved in the women who had previously suffered from infertility.
Questions have since been raised over whether transgender women could also have uterus transplants to enable them to carry their own children.
Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation program at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, estimates that the procedure could happen between five and 10 years time or “maybe sooner.”
Eleanor Burns, 36, from Cardiff, Wales, who identifies as a trans woman, says she’d be “very tempted” by the surgery if it were to become available in the United Kingdom, she told Yahoo News.
“I would love to be a mother of whatever kind I can be, but my husband and I have had to rule out natural options. He is a pre-op trans man and the idea of pregnancy is horrifically triggering to him,” she says.
“I believe that the experience of pregnancy and nursing would vastly improve the way I feel about my own body, but that is – I can accept – very selfish logic. A better focus might be on improving the availability of adoption and fostering options for loving LGBT couples.
“That is our most likely option, though we are aware being a trans couple will probably not play in our favor.”
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