Transgender women should be entitled to womb transplant to enable them to have their own babies, according to a leading British surgeon.
Two years ago a woman in Brazil became the first mother to give birth to her child using a womb transplanted from a deceased donor to a woman.
It was a major breakthrough in fertility medicine when the little girl was born healthy and weighing 5.6lbs.
It comes just four years after the world’s first womb transplant baby from a live donor was born in Sweden in 2014.
Surgeon Christopher Inglefield, founder of the
London Transgender Clinic, says a successful uterus implant into a trans-female is now achievable.
He says the procedure ‘essentially identical’ to that of ‘cis-women’ - aka females born in that gender.
Mr Inglefield, a specialist in gender confirmation surgery as well as facial and body feminisation, said: “This pioneering birth is extremely important for any trans female who would like to carry her own child.
“Because once the medical community accept this as a treatment for cis-women with uterine infertility, such as congenital absence of a womb, then it would be illegal to deny a trans-female who has completed her transition.