Uterine transplants do exist and are performed, right now, for cis women who are infertile due to uterine agenesis (because they have MRKH or a similar condition) Do those women have a "fetish"?
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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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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?
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
The answer to that question would logically depend primarily on regulatory hurdles and research funding.
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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.
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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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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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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
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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.
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
So the 2012 "Montreal Criteria" declare that recipients should be "genetic women", but there are a few studies essentially lodging complaints (and at least a couple stating a lack of legal enforceability due to anti-discrimination laws which is even more intriguing).
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Yeah sorry to mansplain, you obviously know as much about this as I do I consider it fairly unlikely that someone was successfully able to do an end-around this in an "underground" operation, although who actually knows what billionaires get up to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
I think if it's happened already I suspect that the Cleveland Clinic or similar held a trial and is holding off announcing the results until it's actually successful - I vaguely recall this being a thing, where announcements only occurred once the birth was a done deal.
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