Daily Mail – by Sanchez Manning And Stephen Adams For The Mail On Sunday
Transgender women who were born male should be given womb transplants so that they can have children, leading NHS doctors have told The Mail on Sunday.
And fertility experts say taxpayers should fund such transplants for those who identify as women, on the basis of ‘equality enshrined in law’.
Leading the debate on the controversial procedure is medical ethics lawyer Dr Amel Alghrani, who is pressing for a talks on whether womb transplants for trans-women should be publicly funded.
Dr Alghrani, of Liverpool University, also predicts that a successful programme would lead to others demanding wombs – including gay and straight men who wanted to experience ‘the joys’ of carrying a child.
But critics say the NHS should not waste precious resources merely to allow trans-women to pursue an ‘authentic female experience’.
Women’s campaigner Laura Perrins said: ‘Most taxpayers will not think this is a good use of resources. It raises profound ethical and moral issues that will have an impact on women’s rights. It will impinge on the meaning of motherhood and womanhood.’
However, gynaecologists are increasingly convinced that implanting a donor womb into a person born with male organs is possible, with one top doctor saying it is just a decade away. They believe the recent success of ‘uterine transplantation’ in women born without wombs has drawn it a step closer.
Since 2014, at least five babies have been born to womb-less women after receiving donor wombs in a series of pioneering operations at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
Later this year British doctors hope to start their own charity-funded programme to give donor wombs to at least three UK women.
It is the remarkable success of the Swedish team that has triggered calls by transgender women for them to receive womb transplants too.
And now some NHS doctors are backing their demands.Consultant gynaecologist Dr Arianna D’Angelo, of the NHS’s Wales Fertility Institute, said it was right from an ‘ethical point of view’.
Mr Cross, 21, from Gloucester, who was born Paige, put his sex-change on hold last year so
‘We already have fertility preservation for transgender people, to give them the possibility to have their own genetic child,’ she said.
‘So I don’t see much of a difference between that and actually delivering their own child.’ Dr Francoise Shelfield, a clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at University College London, who has treated infertile NHS patients for 30 years, added her support.
‘If we are saying we should have equality and we have legislation [defending the rights of transgender people], I do not see why not,’ she said.
Their rights to equal treatment, she noted, were ‘actually enshrined in legislation’.
The doctors’ calls come as Hayden Cross, the first British female-to-male transsexual to become pregnant, is due to give birth. Mr Cross, 21, from Gloucester, who was born Paige, put his sex-change on hold last year so he could have a baby – doing so with sperm from an online donor.
Professor Steven Weyers, of Ghent University Hospital, in Belgium, is starting a womb transplant programme involving 20 women later this year. He said he believed transplants for trans-women would happen in ‘maybe a decade’.
Dr Alghrani, director of Liverpool University’s Health Law & Regulation Unit and a trained barrister, makes her case in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, saying that once women started being offered womb transplants, ‘questions will arise as to whether this should be publicly funded’ for trans-women too. She says this would ‘revolutionise reproduction’.
It could lead others to demand transplants, including straight men, ‘allowing for couples to jointly share the reproductive burdens and joys of pregnancy’. And she says: ‘Homosexual couples may also wish to procreate in this fashion, while single men may opt for it to avoid surrogacy.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4657830/transgender-women-born-boys-babies-NHS-doctors.html#ixzz4ldBsRrQu
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I say that John McCain be the first recipient of the male womb.
Let the old corrupt fart be the poster boy for this human garbage.
I love having a reasonable level of Internet access again. Now I can become so nauseated at what passes as ‘journalism ‘ I might become “bitter” again. Oh yay. My hammock. F this bullshit ‘cunt-tree’
And fertility experts say taxpayers should fund such transplants for those who identify as women, on the basis of ‘equality enshrined in law’OY I’LL BET KATIE WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SA ABOUT THAT BULLSHIT…..
I PROPOSE WE TAKE OUR TAX DOLLARS AND USE THEM TO PAY SURGEONS TO SEW ALL THESE WEIRDOS TO ONE ANOTHER, AND DO ALL WE CAN TO GIVE THEM A LONG LIFE AFTERWARD……………
Koyote, here I am.
“OY I’LL BET KATIE WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SA ABOUT THAT BULLSHIT…..
Anyone still choosing to be ignorant or cowardly regarding the “income” tax just may get stuck with paying for this garbage, but it sure isn’t going to be me, thank God!
“Koyote, here I am.” 😀 LMAO 😀 😉
This development is the most Ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of.
I’m flabbergasted…bumfuzzled…speechless…
DONT BE “FLABBERFUZZLESS!!!! IT’S SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE ARE ALMOST UP TO THIS FARCE CALLED “INDEPENDENCE DAY!
ALTHOUGH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE WOULD BE “INDEPENDENT” FROM?? (IT DAMN SURE ISN’T THE FOOLISHNESS OF TYRANNY)
LOL 😉 😀
THEN FORCE THEM TO TEACH THE RIGHTS OF MAN TO THOSE “POOR CHILDREN COMING TO THE US”, I KEEP EYEING ABOUT IN THE SIDEBAR
My sidebar shows what I would consider to be Porn. Maybe it’s my NYC location… Don’t know… It is Very Irritating/Disgusting. I spoke to Henry&Laura about it and there ain’t Sh$t I can do about the sidebar (2 or 3 are legit ads, the rest of them are trash)&popups (I supposedly have pop-ups blocked) GRRR. All I can do is ignore them.
Like you said Koyote, “IT’S SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Chill out, Brother. <3
Don't get your BP up over this ridiculous BS.
Yes!… It is Garbage!… It is Infuriating!…
AGREED!!! However, Don't have another stroke or seizure over this utterly ridiculous proposal (which will Never work).
It Ain't Worth It! We NEED you around for when the Sh$t hits the fan. 😉
When I read a story like this, part of me takes it seriously and …Well, you know…
The other part can’t help but LAUGH…It is so Ludicrous…
MY SIDEBAR ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE AUTHORS OF THE LATEST COMMENTS….. WHO DID YOU PISS OFF??
I was talking about my Left sidebar and the bottom of each post I view. My Right sidebar also shows the latest comments (That’s the one I pay attention to).
Maybe it’s just me…my location/server… Thanks for telling me what you see. I appreciate it. 🙂
Hey Angel. I use mozilla and it blocks out the pop up stuff. I have used IE on occasion and it doesn’t block them.
so far Mozilla has performed well for me.
FIrefox, acblockplus, ghostery. Poof they go away. Not the vape or ammo people.
So what happens when this woman/man is pregnant does he/she still take those male hormones, and what will happen to the baby? will it be born a male or female?? just remember you transgenders, when you die you will die what you were born as!!!PERIOD!
THOSE YUNGUNS WON’T BE MALE/FEMALE. THEY WILL BE BORN AS DOOHICKEYS…………
LOL
If someone wants to mutiliate himself/herself in a futile attempt to become the opposite sex, that’s his or her right, as sick as it may be.
HOWEVER, when you bring innocent children into the picture, everything changes.
How do we know what will happen to a child who develops in an unnatural womb like this? Are they going to experiment on humans (or even animals) to find out? That’s absolutely unethical and unacceptable.
NOPE!!!!!
and
$&*)_&*%C$#$^&*^#@@!!!!!!!
“But those born male who are dosed with female hormones and undergo cosmetic surgery in order to present as female will never be women.”
Truth.
“This procedure suggests that you can create a woman in a test tube or through a surgeon’s knife.”
All you can create is a sick, confused retard that THINKS it’s a woman.