Okay, some one has probably mentioned this before, while doing research for chapter 9 of Unexpected Atractions, I came across this, and thought it was interesting. Of course, we are not a target market...however...
http://cancer.about.com/od/copingwithcancer/a/uterus_trans.htm
I think I have that right. I was looking up GRS and found this about Uterine transplants. Maybe it'll work for us...someday.
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Sadly, having lived in total ignorance
Sadly, having lived in total ignorance for much of my life, any such solution wouldn't have worked for me; for one thing, my body shape is all wrong. I live in hope, however, that future generations will benefit from information not available to me.
I wasn't aware, for example, that my body was poisoning itself. I was near retirement before the information became available that would have prevented that.
For goodness sake, I was twenty one years of age before I found out how a baby was made!
I am thankful that many children can now make informed choices regarding their future, hopefully supported by enlightened adults.
S.
There is more than a Uterus.
I wish it were not so, but the article is a step in the right direction, I think. Still, in the forseable future, I think our greatest hope lies in early identification, hopefully by blood test, done before birth. I have been reading about blood chemistry levels in human children before puberty, and have not found much.
I think the current understanding of blood chemistry is primitive compared to what it needs to be. We start becoming male toward the end of the first three months of pregnancy. So, for me, in T folk and the intersexed, why does the developing fetus not follow orders? I can think of two posibilities and one of them is some sort of defect. However, I think that it is posible that those who are not purely Male or Female are no accident at all, but either a statistically normal part of the process or, sort of evolutionary "feelers" that search for better solutions to the procreation issue.
One day, someone will transplant a Uterus, make it thrive, get it preggers, and bring a child to full term. Hopefully, they will have figured out the birth canal issue, because it is not big enough in a genetic male. So, probably that first child will have to be delivered by C section.
Much Peace
Khadijah
There is more than a Uterus.
I wish it were not so, but the article is a step in the right direction, I think. Still, in the forseable future, I think our greatest hope lies in early identification, hopefully by blood test, done before birth. I have been reading about blood chemistry levels in human children before puberty, and have not found much.
I think the current understanding of blood chemistry is primitive compared to what it needs to be. We start becoming male toward the end of the first three months of pregnancy. So, for me, in T folk and the intersexed, why does the developing fetus not follow orders? I can think of two posibilities and one of them is some sort of defect. However, I think that it is posible that those who are not purely Male or Female are no accident at all, but either a statistically normal part of the process or, sort of evolutionary "feelers" that search for better solutions to the procreation issue.
One day, someone will transplant a Uterus, make it thrive, get it preggers, and bring a child to full term. Hopefully, they will have figured out the birth canal issue, because it is not big enough in a genetic male. So, probably that first child will have to be delivered by C section.
Much Peace
Khadijah
Sorry for Double Post
I dunno wut happened ??
Khaduum
Clopts
And Commander Suzdahl, in Cordwainer Smith's story, comes to mind.