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<\/p>\nThe surgeons responsible for a landmark womb transplant have ruled out conducting the same procedure for trans patients.<\/p>\n
Grace Davidson, 36, and husband Angus, 37, welcomed Amy Isabel into the world earlier this year after the UK’s first successful womb transplant.<\/p>\n
Mrs Davidson, who was born without a womb, received the transplant from her sister Amy Purdie, and now thousands more women could benefit from the medical breakthrough.<\/p>\n
But Scots gynaecological surgeon Professor Richard Smith, and transplant surgeon Isabel Quiroga, who were behind Mrs Davidson’s transplant, said the research is nowhere near ready for trans patients.<\/p>\n
Professor Smith, who told how ‘the whole project is about the creation of babies’, said: ‘It’s really important to be clear about what we’re trying to do, which is relief of suffering for women who have got no womb, or they’ve got a womb which is incapable of reproduction.’<\/p>\n
And Ms Quiroga said: ‘The only function of a uterus is to gestate and the uterus doesn’t make any hormones, it doesn’t do anything \u2013 it only gives the capacity of a woman to carry her own child.<\/p>\n
‘So that’s why we are not proposing to transplant anybody so they feel… a sense of being complete or complete psychologically or just to have a uterus itself, because the risks in the long term with immunosuppression and everything that entails is quite great.’<\/p>\n
Many in the trans community have hoped for the possibility of womb transplants for trans women \u2013 those who were born men but identify as female.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Grace Davidson (M) and husband Angus (L) welcomed Amy Isabel into the world earlier this year after the UK’s first successful womb transplant, donated by Grace’s sister\u00a0Amy Purdie (R)<\/p>\n
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The procedure marked the UK’s first successful womb transplant (Pictured: father Angus holds his newborn baby girl)<\/p>\n
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But the surgeons responsible for a landmark womb transplant have ruled out conducting the same procedure for trans patients (Pictured: The birth of baby Amy)<\/p>\n
But research shows that women born without a womb or vagina, and who have a surgically created neo-vagina, tend to have miscarriages.<\/p>\n
Professor Smith told The Times: ‘On top of that, while we’re well aware no one is having a normal vaginal delivery, there are issues with respect to private anatomy.<\/p>\n
‘We have a lot of supporting structures in a female pelvis \u2013 where are you going to hook a uterus when we stitch one in a male pelvis?<\/p>\n
‘I have seen this raised false expectation but my own belief is that this is ten to 20 years away at least.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘There may be somebody who wants to be a renegade and be a real hero but that’s not our scene at all in any way. We are not currently doing any work in this area because we’ve got far too much to do.’<\/p>\n