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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @StuckInArkanar and

      Usually this isn't their only option for having children -- they could adopt, they could engage a surrogate -- but they want to personally experience gestation and childbirth, and so a very expensive and difficult transplant procedure is done to enable that desire

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    2. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @StuckInArkanar and

      Kinda curious, do you have a guess for the number of years before we see the first uterus transplant-enabled pregnancy in a trans woman? -0.5? 2? 5? 20?

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    3. ShyWoof says Black Lives Matter‏ @TheShyWoof Apr 8
      Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and

      The answer to that question would logically depend primarily on regulatory hurdles and research funding.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    4. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 8
      Replying to @TheShyWoof @arthur_affect and

      I -think- this is actually relatively lightly regulated, as a surgery rather than a drug, and for the first one in particular might be a stochastic matter of whether one of the clinics decides to be willing around the same time they get a sufficiently motivated patient.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @life_minutiae @TheShyWoof and

      In a world where this weren't "politically charged" I'd place my bets on it happening within a decade In the world we actually live in, all bets are off -- I can unfortunately also see the pathway by which HRT and GRS are banned in most countries within the next decade

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    6. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and

      What would you estimate as the probability that it's already been attempted at least once, or carried through to a birth at least once?

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @life_minutiae @TheShyWoof and

      I dunno My knowledge of this world only comes from what makes it to the mainstream press, so I have no priors for judging the likelihood of what's happening underground

      1 reply 0 retweets 18 likes
    8. Kate Chung‏ @life_minutiae Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and

      Interesting - my impression was that the uterus transplant community (which was driven by Turkish and Saudi attempts early on) very quickly declared trans procedures off limits and then some US and UK researchers pushed back against their categorical exclusion.

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @life_minutiae @TheShyWoof and

      I know that the first such transplant in the US (which happened at the Cleveland Clinic) came with a big burst of press about the criteria for approval, the first of which was straight up "patient must be a cis woman" (Not in those terms, but you know)

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

      I mean tbf it goes further than that The official criteria for a uterine transplant candidate today requires the patient must have functioning ovaries So it's pretty much only available to patients with MRKH (where the uterus doesn't develop but the ovaries do)

      1 reply 2 retweets 24 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
      Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

      The way the bioethicists stacked this up, they care a lot about where the DNA came from They consider it unethical to implant *both* a uterus *and* an "outside" embryo in a patient That's going to a lot of trouble to gestate an embryo that "could've been born elsewhere"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          The idea is that if the embryo is conceived from your own ovum then it starts off, ethically, "your embryo" and it's an injustice to compel you to relinquish "your" embryo to gestate in someone else's womb against your will

          1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Apr 8
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          The current ethical framework for a uterine transplant is "We're giving a mother the right to give birth to her own baby instead of having to give it away to someone else (surrogacy)" It's framed as trying to keep the pregnancy *more* "natural" instead of less natural

          1 reply 2 retweets 21 likes
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        1. Alicia‏ @alicianzapanta Apr 8
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          Woah where are you seeing this? My understanding is that the reason for the exclusion of people lacking ovaries and donor embryos from the protocol was to mitigate any question of whether those factors influenced the success of the procedure.

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        1. Alicia‏ @alicianzapanta Apr 8
          Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and

          We put donor embryos in intended parents and in gestational carriers all the time, I can’t imagine any ethical objection to a donor embryos in a donor uterus other than it’s still very much an experimental procedure. But many are advocating for donor embryos to be included now

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