Men could get pregnant tomorrow with womb transplants | Daily Mail Online
- Successful womb transplants into women could be extended to men
- Surgeons believe the same technology could allow men to carry a baby
- Dr Richard Paulson said there was 'no scientific reason for it not to happen'
- An international agreement only allows womb transplants in women
Men could become pregnant ‘tomorrow’ thanks to advances in womb transplantation, according to a leading fertility expert.
The success of womb transplants into women has paved the way for a similar operation being carried out on people born male.
Dr Richard Paulson said that now wombs have been successfully transplanted into women born without them, ‘trans women’ – people born biologically male but who have had sex change surgery – will also want a womb transplant.
This would allow them to carry a baby – and there was no scientific reason why it would not happen, he added.
In recent months, there have been reports of ‘trans men’ having babies – women who have had sex change operations to become male, but still have functioning wombs.
Dr Paulson, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, made his controversial prediction at the society’s annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
When asked whether men having babies was ‘pie in the sky’, he said: ‘You are talking about trans women. Someone who started out as a man, who became a woman.
‘There would be additional challenges, but I don’t see any obvious problem that would preclude it. I think it would be possible.’
Asked when someone who was born male could be fitted with a uterus, Dr Paulson said: ‘They could do it tomorrow.’
He added, however: ‘It’s still a very complicated procedure. It’s a huge team, it’s not something somebody can do in a community hospital and just get it done.’
Dr Paulson explained that one problem is that the male pelvis would not allow a baby to pass through it because it is too narrow, so a man would have to give birth by caesarean section.
But there was room inside a man to hold a womb. Dr Paulson said hormones might have to be given to replicate the changes that go on while a woman is pregnant.
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