Uterus Transplants for Men: Finally Women?

Obviously not, but this option will be available to biological men sooner than you think.

Women have joked for centuries now about how a man faced with the same challenges of nurturing and growing another human inside his vessel for 9 months would crumble if it were to ever become a reality.

That being said, none of these women ever imagined a world where you could actually CHOOSE the sex you identify as, and live your life as such without tons of social stigma & prejudice.

Now, tell that same group of women that in a few decades, we’ll be transferring uteruses into male bodies with the intent to impregnate them and deliver a child.

What was once considered science fiction or that of absolute mental insanity could soon be commonplace.

But First, Women

The first successfully transferred uterus was from one woman to another, initiated in 2013 in Sweden. The woman was in her mid-30s and received the organ from her then 61-year-old mother.

“She was one of seven women who successfully underwent a womb transplant from a live donor – in most cases the recipient’s mother - and subsequently had in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.,” according to a 2014 Reuter article.

Living donors are not all that these Frankensurgeons work with, however. In 2020, the University of Gothenburg reported its first successful uterus transplant using organs from deceased donors.

“To date, three babies in the world have been born after transplantation of the uterus of a deceased donor: one in Brazil, followed by two in the U.S. The first such birth in Sweden may take place in 2021 at the earliest.”

According to a recent report by JAMA Surgery, ”Between 2016 and 2021, 33 women received uterus transplants in the United States and so far 19 of them, or 58%, have delivered a total of 21 babies.”

*Side note* All of the deliveries were done via C-section.

Now Do Transmen

I remember seeing images plastered all over magazine covers at the grocery store and seeing little blurbs on Mainstream Media showing these confusing & disturbing images of what appeared at first glance to be a man with a swollen (pregnant) belly.

These images were of a person named Thomas Beatie who was born female but had gone through a double mastectomy & years of hormones to appear more like a male. Beatie had not gone through bottom surgery, and thus still maintained female reproductive organs.

Beatie was one of many trans-pregnancies since. The numbers aren’t solid, but a 2019 report via Rutger shows nearly 30% of transgender men have had unplanned pregnancies.

So here we have a female, with female reproductive organs who was able to conceive & bring a pregnancy to term that has made an attempt to present like a male.

Though strange, this isn’t a scientific miracle - it’s simply a mockery of both genders, motherhood, and reproduction as a whole. Let’s get to the super weird stuff.

Bioethical Issues

In pursuit of this ridiculous and blasphemous goal, one Chinese scientist stitched a male and female living rat together, transferred her uterus into the male & then performed a c-section 21.5 days later on the male rat, delivering 10 out of 27 “normal” pups.

Totally normal. All this is normal. Keep telling yourself. This is just the beginning.