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QuoteWill men be able to give birth sooner than, well, never? (Credit Yahoo Health/iStock)
That?s the question provoked by last week?s announcement that the Cleveland Clinic is performing uterus transplant surgery on women who were born without a womb or whose uterus is diseased or malfunctioning. Hearing the news, we, and some of you, wondered: If science can transplant a uterus into a woman, can it transplant one into a man?
The answer is yes. Theoretically, men could receive a uterus, carry a baby to term, and give birth. But what really blew our minds is that the day of male pregnancy is closer than you?d think.
?My guess is five, 10 years away, maybe sooner,? says Dr. Karine Chung, director of the fertility preservation program at the University of Southern California?s Keck School of Medicine. Today, medical advances let transgender women adjust their biochemistry to suppress male and introduce female hormones, have breasts that can lactate, and obtain surgically constructed vaginas that include a ?neoclitoris,? which allows sensation.
Until now, however, a place to carry the fetus ? a womb of its own ? was a major missing link. Uterus transplants could conceivably surmount that hurdle.
?I?d bet just about every transgender person who is female will want to do it, if it were covered by insurance,? says Dr. Christine McGinn, a New Hope, Pa., plastic surgeon who performs transgender surgeries on men and women and is a consultant to the new movie The Danish Girl, about one of the first recipients of sex reassignment surgery.
McGinn, a transgender woman and mother of twins, says the ?human drive to be a mother for a woman is a very serious thing. Transgender women are no different.?
Uterus transplants are still in the research stage for women suffering from uterine factor infertility (UFI). A Swedish team already has successfully transplanted uteri harvested from live donors and achieved five pregnancies and four live births. In the coming months, the Cleveland Clinic team plans to transplant uteri from deceased donors into UFI female patients.
Transplant surgery is difficult and dangerous, requiring patients to take antirejection drugs throughout their pregnancies, putting them at risk for infection. But for many women ? and presumably for many transitioning women ? the risk is worth the reward.
However, biological women have a leg up on biological males when it comes to accepting and nurturing a transplanted uterus. Women already have: vasculature needed to feed the uterus with blood, pelvic ligaments designed to support a uterus, a vagina and cervix, and natural hormones that prepare the uterus for implantation and support the pregnancy.
Men have none of those support systems ? naturally ? but none are impossible to create. ?Male and female anatomy is not that different,? says Chung. ?Probably at some point, somebody will figure out how to make that work.?
In fact, medical techniques already exist to overcome many obstacles to male pregnancy.
Hormone therapy can shut off testosterone and introduce progesterone and estrogen needed to prepare the uterus for pregnancy.
Even though males do not have uterine veins and arteries needed to nurture the womb, it?s possible to attach a branch of a large vessel, like the internal iliac, to the uterus. ?It?s doable, it just hasn?t been done,? Chung says.
Although it?s preferable for a vagina to support the uterus, it?s possible to attach a transplanted uterus to other ligaments in the pelvis.
At the moment, the thorniest problem standing between men and pregnancy is transferring an embryo grown in vitro into the transplanted womb. The usual route for women undergoing fertility treatments is through the vagina and cervix and into the uterus. But since a uterus has never been transplanted into a biological male, techniques to connect a constructed vagina to a transplanted uterus have not been attempted. But Dr. Elliot Jacobs, a Manhattan plastic surgeon, says that theoretically, ?Connecting the two is not a major surgical feat.?
Perhaps the most insurmountable obstacle will be the economics: Transplants are wildly expensive, ranging from $25,000 for a corneal transplant to $1.3 million for a heart, according to the National Foundation of Transplants. We can?t even begin to guess how much a uterus transplant will cost if the surgery makes it out of the research phase, and chances are slim that insurance companies will pay for it.
?It?s a class issue; you?ll only have wealthy people able to do this,? says McGinn, who is featured in the documentary TRANS.
Also, transplanting uteri into men provokes ethical questions about long-term health outcomes for transplant recipients and subsequent children, and the benefit to society of using so many resources for men and women to experience the joy of birth.
?Are people going to want to do it? Yes,? says Dr. Arthur Caplan, head of medical ethics at the NYU School of Medicine. ?But I don?t see making this a priority. In terms of making the best use of scarce resources, this won?t get over the threshold.?
https://www.yahoo.com/health/surgery-could-give-men-wombs-1302360099545142.html
TIME 4 SOME MESS!!! :plzstop: :plzstop: :plzstop:
It won't go down
Ok..,so where will the baby come out May?
:ohwow:
But personally no thanks. Kudos to women though.
I just couldn't put my body through this. :plzstop: not saying I couldn't bounce back. But...
and I suppose there will be a C-section mess cause...
Quote from: Mista 7.0 on November 23, 2015, 07:23:56 PM
Ok..,so where will the baby come out May?
from the manmade vagina
Quote from: Mista 7.0 on November 23, 2015, 07:23:56 PM
Ok..,so where will the baby come out May?
It's called a C-Section hon
it sounds really risky .. i wouldnt wanna be the guinea pigg for this. bitch that baby is gonna rip through that tranny and KILL her when its time to give birth
ma'am...
but who is pushing that big headed thing out?
Quote from: MΛΥDΛΥ on November 23, 2015, 07:25:53 PM
Quote from: Mista 7.0 on November 23, 2015, 07:23:56 PM
Ok..,so where will the baby come out May?
It's called a C-Section hon
These bottoms are ready in Atlanta.
I don't want to live thur this shit. Too much
This is great news!
Foh
Now this is just too damn edgy
Quote from: Bentley! on November 23, 2015, 07:33:09 PM
This is great news!
Sis! We can have Miles' babies! :wub:
dmdm
wait Pons
Quote from: Nine on November 23, 2015, 07:37:32 PM
dmdm
wait Pons
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Ain't nobody letting that THING carry their seed
:nowgorl:
uh oh tiger' bby
u 'bouta have sum siblings
Ch.. yawl do what you want
I'll be sitting up somewhere with Blake Griffins baby.
Now I wonder .... if they'll streamline the process and have the eggs come bundled with the uterus. And if ovaries are included in the combo?
dfffddff that'll be one weird looking ass baby
Pretty soon we'll be able to build our own personal bby and have it inserted inside.
I wouldn't do it.
:wellheythere:
whoa
i wonder if men will have eggs?
whoa
Bbys gone come out with wings and horns.
Men don't produce the same mess women do in their bodies. It won't work.
More pushing I see LMAO!!
Quote from: Drais. on November 23, 2015, 09:23:13 PM
Bbys gone come out with wings and horns.
my kinda fckin bby :supluv:
Not sure if "giving birth" is the right way to pitch this. Good thing either way, especially for trans women.
im gonna be able to have kids with my future middle eastern adonis :everythingok:
This is crossing tha fuckin line right here
Quote from: Stewie on November 23, 2015, 09:39:07 PM
im gonna be able to have kids with my future middle eastern adonis :everythingok:
and me with my pure west african God :wellheythere:
Who the fuck wanna experience that level of pain! I'm
Sorry but I think science is taking it too far with this one
Sign me up.
I'd definitely carry my man's seed if he wanted me to.
Quote from: BigDawg on November 23, 2015, 09:40:33 PM
This is crossing tha fuckin line right here
Yeah I'm all for being progressive and edgy but a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
Quote from: Drais. on November 24, 2015, 12:05:50 AM
Quote from: BigDawg on November 23, 2015, 09:40:33 PM
This is crossing tha fuckin line right here
Yeah I'm all for being progressive and edgy but a line needs to be drawn somewhere.
nigger draw a damns bath
n dnt jus stands thea either
GET IN
Fck u stu' tranny
r'ported
guhjn
u gurls will learn
uh ohs
Quote from: Blues clue on November 24, 2015, 12:31:43 AM
r'ported
guhjn
u gurls will learn
sssss
Hey luv ur an artificial womuh :receipts:
Some of u gorls are past the birthing age. All these these damn high risk pregnancies. :mmywheresddy:
Ok its getting a lil too edgy up in hea
Thats too risky just pay the bitch
Im actually carrying Micheal B Jordan's bby right now
DEATH all you queens saying you would do it.. this is supposed to be for transgenders..isnt it?
Quote from: Nicholas_Styles on November 24, 2015, 01:59:23 AM
DEATH all you queens saying you would do it.. this is supposed to be for transgenders..isnt it?
But I thought you wanted me to carry your baby...
Our strong Black genes mixing together to create a beautiful chocolate bundle of joy
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I am disgusted beyond belief
Quote from: Chokeme on November 24, 2015, 01:34:41 AM
Some of u gorls are past the birthing age. All these these damn high risk pregnancies. :mmywheresddy:
sssss
hey... it's a gamble... but worth a CHECK!
all these damns celebs ... I'd get preggo at least... once a year
that's BANK lolz
:letsmessfag: