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Interesting links here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8571487/Worlds-first-womb-...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9389469/Womb-tr...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2172420/Britain-s-...
Sorry for the sources, but I only came across the story today.
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Sounds complicated....
From the way I read the articles it will be a LLOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG time before this procedure even makes it past the experimental stage IN WOMEN let alone being talked about in trans-folk.
But it is a step foreward right?
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
All things considered?
...there would need to be corresponding blood vessels in order for a transplant to take place in a woman born with no womb or a MtF transsexual; with compatibility issues from donor to donee as well. Still, as you say, a step forward.
It would be interesting to see the inclusion / exclusion criteria for eligibility as well; would being born male preclude a transplant if a genetically born female was available? Reserved uteri from family members much like directed donation for other organs or blood? And the biggest issue might be who decides which candidate will receive help first if at all? Ethics rears its fairly attractive head.
Love, Andrea Lena
Rough guess
But given it's a structure which has no analogue in the male, it's possible the cells may present proteins on their surface that the immune system wouldn't recognise, so substantially increasing the chances of rejection. Even in non-menstruating females, there may be biochemical / hormonal interactions with it, which it would expect to encounter.
A potentially more viable strategy (again, probably about a decade or so down the road) would be to tweak a person's own stem cells to create one in vitro and then implant. Even then, recovery time would probably be significantly longer than neovaginoplasty and the patient carefully monitored, as it's still a significant chunk of new material inside their body.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Tissue engineering in generally coming is coming along nicely
At least in mouse models.
So a decade out might right on the mark for experimental stage stuff. but then again technology is start to really become hard to predicated as of late. Things are compounding so fast that we could start to see very interesting things a lot sooner.
add ten years
add in about ten years until it will be in any acceptable stage in the United States. I'll get on the waiting list for a complete reproductive organ switch at the earliest possible moment because it's what I want. Also, this will probably be a lot of money to even get (and insurance would probably see it as "LAISK-like" but I'd save every penny I made for such a procedure. Something like this is my very long term goal
Hmmm.
I assume she's missing the Fallopian Tubes otherwise they wouldn't be mentioning the implantation.
If this isn't the case I would suggest they try to connect the two and wait for a bit to see if menstruation may occur.
As for MTF Transsexuals I imagine they will duplicate the X gene already in existence to create the womb. That seems to make the most sense.