Can transsexual male to female with the right hormone therapy and right set of organs actually have a baby?

Question

And carry it to term? Or it's a still question of the future?

Answer 1

Nope, it is impossible for us to become pregenant, although they are working on womb transplants and other things, they are a long way off from being commercially viable. The options for having a child are adoption, being a foster parent, or saving sperm before starting hormone therapy. Also kidnapping is an option, but usually looked down upon.

Answer 2

No, the primary gonads (sex organs) form in-utero
(prior to the person being born).

We have no way of simply re-creating those organs.

In the case you mention, the resulting woman won't have
ovaries to release ova (eggs) to be fertilized, and won't have
a fully functioning womb in which to raise them.

By the way, the lack of these organs is why the person
will be taking hormones for the rest of her life: The primary
gonads are the triggering system to produce hormones.
No trigger, no hormones.

That is NOT to say, however, that this person cannot
contribute genetically to offspring. Currently, his frozen
sperm could be used to fertilize somebody else's egg.

In the future, it should be possible to remove the DNA
from an existing egg and replace it with material from
other eggs or yes, sperms. That right, you'll be able to
take the DNA from two different sperms and combine
them in a de-DNAd egg to get a child from two donor
FATHERS.

This HAS been done with lower order animals, but obviously
not humans. The ethical implications are staggering.
This is the future of Jerry Springer...

Clearly, some combinations won't be able to survive
(for instance, if both sperms are carrying Y chromosomes,
the resulting child would have no X, and wouldn't be viable).

However, somebody still has to "bring the embryo to term"
or "gestate" - and right now we have no technology for that.
Mom's womb is still the best and only hotel on the block.

Answer 3

Not on ummmm, her own, because even after such an operation, she won't have ovaries, and eggs are needed for half the DNA of a baby, and I don't think sex change ops are that involved yet. if an embryo was created it could theoretically be implanted somewhere, but I'm not sure how that would work. There was a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger where he had an embryo planted somewhere and carried it to term and delivered by C section, but that is a little different, because Arnold's character was still fully male; there were no hormone replacements or things like that, if I remember right.

Answer 4

Something for the future. an mtf Transexual is still lacking a womb and so there is nowhere for a (donated) egg to be implanted - with a rich blood supply - to service the needs of the developing embryo.

It is theoretically possible, to implant the egg on a part of the intestinal tract but, as anyone who has ever endured an ectopic pregnancy (usuall in the fallopean tubes) will tell you, this leads to all sorts of problems and can lead to lifelong abdominal problems.

Answer 5

When one has genital reassignment surgery, from male to female, they dont give u a uterus. Which is where u carry a baby. So yeah, its being studied, but still a question of the future,

Answer 6

no. no yet anyway, because men are physically set up different than women and even though they can change the stuff "down there" doctors have not been able to figure out how to make pregnancy possible.

Answer 7

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure right now the surgery is all cosmetic. But who knows - the future is like sci-fi - crazy.

Answer 8

Not with the current medical technology. In the future, with nanobots, who knows?

Answer 9

I don't think so. Only a biological female can bear a child.

Answer 10

No, it's physiologically impossible. As for the future ... I doubt it, but who can say?