In 2014 the first baby was born to a woman who had received a uterine implant as a result of pioneering work by Professor Mats Branstromm. It was heralded as a breakthrough for women suffering infertility issues. The majority of uterine implants before and since this successful birth have taken place in women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome, where a woman may have ovaries and external female genitalia, but has failed to fully develop a uterus or a vagina. More established infertility treatments such as IVF would not be effective in these female patients.

Some women with fertility issues may desire such pioneering treatment and some may not. There is no requirement for women to give birth in order to be seen as female, and having a uterus or giving birth does not make her more female. She simply is. Uterine transplantation is still not a common surgical procedure; it remains expensive and highly specialised. The uterus can successfully be implanted from a female donor who is dead or alive. The 2014 birth mentioned above came from a donor who was a friend of the recipient, who had already borne her own children. 

There are four people involved in producing the eventual baby

Some feminist women, even in 2014, recognised a danger potentially hovering on the horizon. Enter stage left entitled men who identify as women, who increasingly have no boundaries in their desire to access women’s lives or mimic the experience of our female bodies. The trans-identified men who claim womanhood for themselves are of course extremely keen to cross that final frontier and take the most coveted part of a woman’s body, the part that is most recognisably distinct from a male body, and put it inside themselves in a final act of the never-ending vanity project of performing “woman”. 

A recently published study discusses research into the possibility of transplanting a woman’s uterus into a trans-identified man. The research considerations and language used in the paper are astounding. The report into this dystopian horror discusses uterine transplants needing to be made available to a “more diverse population”. Quite simply, this means men. Crudely, but realistically, it means taking a female uterus and placing it in a man’s pelvis, followed by placing inseminated female eggs inside it to produce a baby and then removing the developed baby from the man’s pelvis. 

The study itself acknowledges that some of the obstacles to be overcome are the differences in the male and female pelvis. There is a clear acknowledgement that sex is real, and yet gender identity is so fully endorsed that the author seems to accept as an inevitability that women’s body parts will be made available for men to “utilise” in order to more effectively perform gender. 

The most mind-blowing part of the study revolves around “fourth party reproduction”. Here we find that a woman’s uterus will be taken from her and placed inside a man, a different woman’s harvested eggs can be placed in this appropriated uterus and may be fertilised by a second man’s sperm. There are therefore four people involved in producing the eventual baby in this science-fiction horror. Of course, it is also the case that the man appropriating the woman’s uterus and possibly a different woman’s eggs can use his own sperm to fertilise the eggs before the whole lot is shoved inside his pelvis for a few months. There is a concern about how viable it would be to link up the woman’s uterus to the man’s “neo vagina”. “Born in the wrong body” has never had more frightening resonance. 

The grotesque picture does not end there. This trans identified man may wish to “retain” the uterus beyond the term required to extract the baby from his body. There are “worrisome” risks to this desire to keep performing “woman” by using her uterus. Continued immunosuppression would be necessary so that his body does not reject the appropriated uterus. A truth is revealed in the reasons given for this vain desire to keep her uterus which is, “for the purpose of menstruation and enhanced gender alignment”.

Men are revered whilst performing sex-stereotyped womanhood

We return to the motivating factor as to why as Dr Liza Johannesson tells us, “Transgender women are also increasingly interested in this procedure”. Men who say they are women will not be happy until they have crossed every boundary between them, politically, physically and now biologically. Despite a man shaving pieces of his facial bone, inverting his penis to create a neo-vagina, accessing women’s spaces, stealing women’s sporting or arts awards, wearing wigs, dresses and make up, there is nothing that will feel more like gender identity triumph than taking a woman’s uterus from her and placing it inside himself. 

We have to wonder how much money will be invested in pandering to this male delusion, which could otherwise be targeted towards women’s fertility or gynae cancer treatment. Another worry is where these donor uteruses will come from. We have been told the woman “donating” can be dead or alive. Existing ethics and law govern organ donation, but in the UK you are currently considered to have “opted-in” to organ donation unless you have formally specified that you do not agree to such organ use after your death. If you neglect your admin whilst alive, your womb could be inside William after your death. 

The vanity project that is Dylan Mulvaney — a man identifying as a woman, who recently documented his “transition” on Tik Tok, including his facial feminisation surgery — would potentially be able to point at a dead woman and say, “I want her womb. Follow me on my journey. Love ya!” I expect the sponsorship would flood in as each Tik Tok revealed his burgeoning stomach whilst he strutted around baby clothes shops on high heels performing “pregnancy” to a captivated social media audience. It is macabre to consider and all too easy to imagine in today’s world, where such men are revered whilst performing the most insulting, sex-stereotyped version of supposed womanhood. 

It should also be mentioned that, according to Interpol, there is still a thriving global trade in illegal organ harvesting where organised criminal gangs profit from trafficking vulnerable communities in impoverished African countries for example. Those most at risk are “the unemployed, migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Victims of human trafficking for sexual and labour purposes also find themselves at additional risk”. In this case, only the female part of that already vulnerable demographic would be at risk. It is noteworthy that the report into transgender uterine transplants stresses that the procedure should only be performed by “well established teams at experienced centers” because the worry is that it may not be. 

A woman once reminded us that “the poorest women have the fewest choices”, and it now seems that the richest men may have a greater and more macabre choice about how they steal and use women’s bodies. 

Hands off our rights and our bodies. Women’s body parts are not part of a dressing up box for entitled men.