In an interview for the "ABC Afternoon" show, Linda Rei stated that she is pregnant. At first it seemed like a joke, but then she added that she is about 2-3 months pregnant, without preferring to give details because "it is a little fast". "Let's wait for the right moment," she said.
Naturally anyone can ask whether it is possible for a transgender person (i.e. in the case of Linda, born with male sex but identified as female) to give birth to a child? In theory, the procedure is not impossible, though difficult and dangerous.
When Mats Brännström - a professor at the University of Gothenburg and head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Swedish Institute of Clinical Sciences - first dreamed of having a uterine transplant, he envisioned helping women who had been born without an organ or needed it. to do a hysterectomy. His desire was to give them a chance to have children, especially in countries like Sweden where pregnancies through a surrogate mother are illegal.
Scientific American reports that he tried the procedure on female rodents, then switched to sheep and baboons. He has performed uterine transplants on some non-transgender women and several babies have been born. His extraordinary interventions ignited the desire of transgender women to have children.
The problem with uterine transplantation is extremely complex because it requires a lot of resources, requiring dozens of people to be part of a health staff and to have careful coordination. First, the uterus, accompanying veins, and arteries must be removed by a donor, who may be a living person or a corpse. The organ must then be placed in the person and seen to function, initially causing menstruation. If the patient has no further complications, doctors can implant an embryo through in vitro fertilization.
The baby must be delivered by cesarean section - as a precautionary measure to avoid shock to the transplanted organ. The complicated process of pregnancy requires more than just a uterus to give birth to a baby.
Por për një grua transgjinore (edhe pas ndryshimit të organit gjenial nga penis në vaginë) procesi është shumë më i vështirë sepse kanë lindur pa sistemin riprodhues femëror. Grave transgjinore u duhet një mjedis hormonal për të ushqyer mitrën, së bashku me vaginën.
Ekspertët e riprodhimit thonë se për këta individë, të cilët janë të gatshëm të ndërmarrin këto hapa, shtatzënia është teorikisht e mundur – thjesht jo e lehtë.
Transplanti i mitrës është realizuar edhe më parë, në një nga përpjekjet mjekësore të para të fushës. Transplanti u krye të artistja daneze Lili Elbe (1882-1931). Lili (potretizuar nga aktori Eddie Redmayne në filmin "The Danish Girl"), me shpresën se do të kishte një fëmijë me të fejuarin e saj, iu nënshtrua transplantit të mitrës në vitin 1931, në Gjermani në moshën 48-vjeçare. Për fat të keq, ajo pati një infeksion post-kirurgjikal dhe ndërroi jetë nga arresti kardiak tre muaj më vonë. Shumë pak të dhëna dihen për teknikat që përdorën kirurgët, pasi informacionet humbën gjatë Luftës së Dytë Botërore. Sot, është e pamundur të dihet nëse operacioni mund të kishte rezultuar në shtatzëni të suksesshme.
Nowadays, pregnancy is possible for transgender men who have a functioning vagina, ovary and uterus, but for transgender women, like Linda's case, further studies are still needed and no successful pregnancies have been reported, so Linda's statement is vague and confusing.
Another way for a transgender woman to have a biological child is to collect sperm and lift the sperm before removing the genital organ (penis), so that in an indefinite period of time, they can combine with someone else's egg. At the moment, the pregnancy of transgender women is an unknown territory.
