Groundbreaking ‘Womb Transplants’ Allow Transgender Women to ‘Have Their Own Babies’

*Transgender women wanting to carrying a baby could do so sooner than expected after a successful ‘womb transplant‘ resulted in a healthy pregnancy in Brazil. 

The test subject at the center of the two-year-old case received the womb that was donated from a dead biologically female woman. Six weeks after the birth of her baby girl, she also started menstruating, according to a Yahoo report.

It was a major moment for fertility scientists, and many have since pushed for womb transplantation for trans women. 

Inglefield, founder of the London Transgender Clinic, told The Mirror, “This pioneering birth is extremely important for any trans female who would like to carry her own child. Because once the medical community accept this as a treatment for cis women with uterine infertility, such as congenital absence of a womb, then it would be illegal to deny a trans female who has completed her transition.

“There are clearly anatomical boundaries when it comes to trans women but these are problems I believe can be [overcome] and the transplant into a trans female is essentially identical to that of a cis female.”

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But how does the science of it all actually work, and how it relates to IVF treatment? 

The article says “Supplemental hormones could be taken to replicate the changes that occur in the body when a woman is pregnant.”

The Yahoo report goes on to note that “This groundbreaking new transplant surgery also gives hope to cisgender females with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome (which sees the body fail to develop a functioning uterus that could carry a child, or have a menstrual cycle). It’s believed to affect around 1 in 4,500 women.”

“The most important step is the harvesting from the donor, as great care is required to avoid damage to the arteries and veins supplying the uterus,” said Dr. Inglefield. “The ‘plumbing in’ is straight forward: donor vessels are connected to the pelvic artery and veins which are the same in both males and females.”

He went on to explain, “With a uterus transplant in a trans female, the neovaginal would be opened at the pelvic end to accept the donor womb, and the same procedure is used in a cis female transplant, with the donor uterus being attached to the native vagina.”

Inglefield says it’s unlikely a trans woman will ever be able to give birth naturally –  as a Caesarian section is the safest choice. 

The womb transplant in Brazil was the first case resulting in the birth of a healthy baby. To date, there have reportedly been 39 similar surgeries carried out across the world, resulting in the birth of 10 other babies.

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