Just Because We Can...

[mushroom25]

.....does that mean we should? womb transplants for transgender people are imminent...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/men-pregnant-womb-transplant-dr-richard-paulson-transgender-a8037201.html

an extreme example perhaps, but science can now definitely buck nature. is it time for ethics to stand aside and allow people to become anything that science can make them?

[kvalidir]

Erm it will be for each individual really I think to decide that- I don't think it's anyone else's business, and it will eventually become something fairly usual perhaps, as a lot of other things have.

[Mamyalynne]

It will never be something that affects me, so hard to have a strong opinion.

For those who it matters a lot to, their views will be different.

[RATTER15]

I dont see any reason why not, I dont see any problems with it, but I'm sure there will be issues somewhere with some people.
I wont be having the op.anytime soon however!

[baza]

I would imagine after the first child is born the father/mother will not want to go through it again, according to Mrs B.

[Gladeian]

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Probably ok for the individual to decide. But...not if the general tax payer has to fund it on the NHS.

[Mamyalynne]

Possibly though I know women who have has multiple C-Sections, so who knows.

[Old_Geezer]

Don't transplants necessitate a lifetime of immune system suppression ?

Whilst an individual can mimic whatever they like, as long as they are honest with yhose close to them, I'm unsure what affect there would be when someone discovers they'd had a male give birth to them. Could screw up their minds royally.

[douglas9401]

Given what can go wrong at cellular level when nature takes it's course, scientists will have to have supreme confidence in their ability to control matters of trace elements and their effects on growing foetuses before this madness continues.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should.

[sp1814]

"womb transplants for transgender people are imminent... "

No they are not.

[andres]

Apparently there are some women in Sweden have already had womb transplants .The wombs often come from women who are considered to be 'brain-dead' or deceased women who have previously given consent for their organs to be used after death. Imagine what you would feel like knowing you were the offspring of a man who had a transplanted womb obtained from a dead person.

[Baldric]

No doubt they will be expecting The NHS to pick up the Bill

[Tilly2]

I do wonder how I will react when I see my first pregnant man.

[atalanta]

There could be an awful lot of ex - men looking for spare wombs, which are surely going to be in short supply. In return, are ex - women going to be given testicle transplants ? If not, that's hardly fair, is it ?

[youngmafbog]

Given that with latest developments men will no longer be able to make a pass at women (and so not find a partner) this could be the answer. Women will no longer be needed !!

Now wouldn't that be amusing for the feminists.

And before the usual start (not that they will read this far), yes this is tongue in cheek

[youngmafbog]

Being serious I have two major problems

1) World wide we have a major population problem. We should be looking at ways of reducing the population not ways of increasing it.

2) In the UK the tax payer should not pay a penny towards this via the NHS.

[douglas9401]

TIC maybe Bogster but it's well known that the prime condition for inclusion in the sisterhood is, NO AMUSEMENT!

I will now withdraw and let them take their revenge on you. :-)

[albaqwerty]

to my mind, they'll have to re-define the terminology.

A transplant is when you already have something (eg, lungs, kidneys, liver) and if they become un-co-operative, then if you're lucky, then you can have a replacement.

How on earth can someone have a transplant when it was never there in the first place?

[youngmafbog]

Thanks Dougie ! :-)

[Old_Geezer]

You can transplant something from one place to another.
For example, your garden has no rose bush. Your parents' does. You transplant the bush from their garden to yours.

[Mamyalynne]

A re-plant then?