Surgeon Has Plans to Transplant a Uterus Into a Trans Woman
transplant a donated uterus into a transgender woman, with the goal of allowing her to become pregnant via IVF and give birth to a child, reports The Mirror.A uterine transplant in a trans woman has been attempted in the past.
In 1931, Lili Elbe, a painter and trans woman (and subject of the film The Danish Girl), underwent the surgery. However, she passed away three months later due to a heart attack caused by an infection she acquired during the procedure.Uterus transplants have been successful in cis women since then.
In 2014, a cis woman gave birth to the first child born of a womb transplant, and another child was born in 2018 to a cis woman who had been born without a uterus due to Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, after having received a transplant from a deceased donor.
These scientific achievements led Dr. Kaushik to believe that the same surgery will benefit trans women who wish to carry their own children. “Every transgender woman wants to be as female as possible,” Dr.
