Anyone Got A Spare Womb ?

[atalanta]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4657830/transgender-women-born-boys-babies-NHS-doctors.html
This idea raises several million questions, none of which seems to have an answer. Such as - where are all these wombs going to come from ? Which NHS treatments will have to be abandoned in order to pay for ex-men or even gay or straight men to have such an operation ? How on earth are such "mothers" going to produce the pregnancy hormones needed to result in the normal development of a foetus ? Should men who want to be mothers take precedence over unfortunate women born without wombs ? How do you explain to a child that a person is both its Mother And its Father ? And, finally, does anyone's mind Not boggle at the whole idea ?

[EDDIE51]

If I have a sex change and become a woman can I get my pension 5 years early?

[Caran]

Love that EDDIE51

[Cloverjo]

This the DM, remember. The 'man' who is pregnant is still a woman biologically. He/she had a womb already. It would take extraordinary skill in human plumbing to put a womb inside a biological man to enable him/her to give birth. I really don't think it will happen.

[Mamyalynne]

There's rather more history to Uterine Transplantation than I first thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterus_transplantation


Of course this latest idea is bound to be controversial on many levels.

[atalanta]

Actually, Eddie, I know personally an ex-chap who "changed" after the age of 60 and got a woman's pension. But to be serious, I really don't think that a male-born person would have a blood supply which could be attached to a donated womb. Are there any medics out there who can confirm or deny this ?

[Mamyalynne]

Some of what it may involve in this article, for that reason alone I think any such transplants will be few and far between.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/07/uterine-transplant-transgender/

[scooping]

At times like these the Catholic Church has a lot to commend it.

[Sqad]

Atalanta....yes it could be done......a uterus could be transplanted into a male pelvis.
The uterus is supplied by the uterine artery which is a branch of the internal iliac artery (large artery in the pelvis) and the testicular artery in the male is a branch of the Aorta (biggest artery in the body) and it would only be a matter of plumbing.
BUT....that is the easy bit and the link supplied by mamy gives you a better indication of the problems.

[atalanta]

Could a baby develop to full size in a (usually much narrower) male-born pelvis ?

[Mamyalynne]

The width of the pelvis is most important during delivery and I am sure any babies born under these circumstances would be delivered C-Section.

[Sqad]

Yes......the size of the baby is not dependent upon the size of the pelvis. It may well be that, as the male pelvis is narrower than the "usual" female pelvis, a Caesarian section may (will) have to ensue, particularly if there is no vagina ;-)
The problem will be to get the fertilised egg, to implant.