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Imperial College London study into womb transplant for transwomen

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bettybeans · 28/05/2019 23:16

I don't know if this has already been mentioned - I can't find it if it has - but wtf.
I have so many questions about and problems with this I don't even know where to begin.

Imperial College London study into womb transplant for transwomen
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pombear · 28/05/2019 23:41

The UK Womb Transplant research team hypothesise that whilst there are additional anatomical, hormonal, fertility, and obstetric complexities, modification to the surgical technique can still make the technique feasible in transgender women

a) 'additional complexities'? Yep, like having a female body.

b) Let's do the 'Barracker-application' to this statement (the new Bechedel Test barometer!). modifcation to the surgical technique can still make the technique feasible in males Only males can be transgender women. The statement is saying implanting uteri in MALES.

b) I'm not usually a fan of the 'i could identify as a table' analogy, but in this case, just because it's an aspiration, why does it have to be an ambition?

If in certain academic spaces speculation escalates into the possibility of performing uterine transplants into robots should we as a society ethically chase that speculation to its end goal? Speculation of human uterine transplants into men (same thing as the 1st, just different words)?

Speculation of human uterine transplants into...etc etc?

Whose 'speculation' are we entertaining here, and why?

KatvonHostileExtremist · 28/05/2019 23:35

16 plus

16

You can't get a tattoo till your 18 ffs

Redshoeblueshoe · 28/05/2019 23:30

I can't say anything that wouldn't get me banned.

Nikhedonia · 28/05/2019 23:30

Oh FFS Hmm

bettybeans · 28/05/2019 23:27

I'm not particularly well versed on any of this stuff but surely it has to be reasonable to conclude that at some point this would always involve some sort of test guinea pig foetus. In mean, aside from the obvious point that expertise in this area should presumably focus on females who are otherwise built to do this job, how could this ever end up being an ethically or morally sound thing to do? It's so messed up.

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