Could someone born as a man have a transplanted womb and get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization, in theory? anyone here with more medical knowledge who can comment on how likely that is to work at some point in the future?
As you may imagine, she was not happy with such responses.
However, I fear the largest hurdle will be a political one, with so many nutjobs [2] so hell-bent on imposing their dogmatic definition of gender on everyone.
[1] https://www.euronews.com/health/2023/08/23/uterus-transplant...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/18/jk-rowling-har...
why just trans? it would work on any male regardless of what they identify as if it were possible. No need for penis removal either, C-section would work.
No, since plenty of trans men have babies. All these considerations would be completely irrelevant.
It's strong evidence that the desire to birth child has nothing to do with gender identity, which latter will be pretty much pointless by the time science allows human fœtus gestation outside the human female body.
First, male-identified people can be born biological female. It's an identity.
Second, the procedure doesn't exist for biological males to begin with right now, neovagina or not. A neovagina is physiologically not a biological female vagina to begin with anyway so I wouldn't help at all with the gestation. Birth can be done via C-Section.
Trans women will receive the modern* uterine transplant operation, this I can state with certainty. Birth is done via C-section as a requirement of the UTx operation, the vagina is required for discharge. I haven't been able to pay attention to the operation for a few years, but it is clear that you are operating from uninformed conjecture.
*The first uterine transplant was performed on a trans woman in Germany in 1930, Lili Elbe. This pioneering surgery lead to her death, as transplantation medicine was not adequately developed at that point in time.
> Trans women will receive the modern* uterine transplant operation, this I can state with certainty. Birth is done via C-section as a requirement of the UTx operation, the vagina is required for discharge. I haven't been able to pay attention to the operation for a few years, but it is clear that you are operating from uninformed conjecture.
> *The first uterine transplant was performed on a trans woman in Germany in 1930, Lili Elbe. This pioneering surgery lead to her death, as transplantation medicine was not adequately developed at that point in time.
Not all transmen require a vaginoplasty, not all transwomen have had a vaginoplasty or even have the desire to do so.
No biological male has ever birthed a child so far, so all that's speculation about what is or isn't needed from you is just that, speculation, based on nothing since it's technically not possible for now.
The desire to birth a child doesn't depends on anybody's gender identity nor anatomy.
Now stop trying to put people in boxes and keep an open mind.
I am unaware of trans women having received this operation yet, but Lili Elbe died after the first uterine transplant nearly 100 years ago, before the Nazi regime destroyed trans medicine and eradicated contemporary trans existence. Given the global climate, I don't expect any trans recipients to be eager for publicity. It will happen, and soon.
Aside from this, the male pelvis isn't shaped to accommodate a womb, and males don't have the hormonal milieu to enable pregnancy.
The closest that researchers have come to having a male gestate a foetus was in rats. But they had to connect the bloodstream of the male rat to a pregnant female rat, where both were implanted with embryos at the same time. Even then, it worked less than 5% of the time.
Harmless divergence from nature: helping women have children.
People's perspectives give wildly different views on things.
I can't truly comprehend the mass data collection and surveillance system, how it interplays with intelligence and law enforcement, and what the impact of connecting a global constellation of privatized armed satellites and a constellation of advanced phased array antennas & sdrs to either end of the system will be, however. I believe there are bigger threats to humanity than bodily autonomy.