Indian Doctor Seeks To Transplant Womb To Trans Woman

A doctor engaged in gender reassignment practice is planning to perform the first-ever successful womb transplant for a trans woman to help her give birth via in vitro fertilization (IVF), Jacob Paul reported for UK’s Daily Express.

Photo Insert: A successful surgery would mean that the person could get pregnant through IVF.

The donated womb will come either from a dead donor or from someone that had their womb removed when transitioning to become a man. A successful surgery would mean that the person could get pregnant through IVF.

But the operation on a trans woman has never been performed successfully and the first one undertaken led to a woman dying from complications months after the procedure was performed.

New Delhi-based Dr. Narendra Kaushik said he is "very, very optimistic" that he can make it work, with the surgery to be performed in his busy Olmec Clinic.

"Every transgender woman wants to be as female as possible and that includes being a mother. The way toward this is with a uterine transplant, the same as a kidney or any other type of transplant. This is the future. We cannot predict exactly when this will happen but it will happen very soon. We have our plans and we are very, very optimistic about this,” he boasted.

Womb transplants are a costly procedure, with patients having to fork out about £50,000 if they want one.

IVF costs over £5,000 per cycle of treatment. Kaushik said: "Many of our patients tell us that their sexual partners don't even notice that they weren't born with female sex organs. That's our aim, to make it so that they live as normal a life as possible as a woman. We aim for an aesthetic ideal."

This industry is reportedly flying in India, with the country recently overtaking Thailand as the go-to spot for this area of surgery. Dr. Kaushik said around a fifth of his customers fly in from around the world, with large swathes arriving from the UK. This is despite gender reassignment being free on UK’s National Health Service (NHS).

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