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[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She has CAIS - complete androgen insensitivity syndrom, so she has underdeveloped "balls" and lacking uterus as it was destroyed by anti-mullerian hormones, and almost fully developed female body. She can't produce neither sperm, nor eggs, but her body possibly can support uterus transplant and gestation through IVF.

Mez, it's not true that a person with CAIS has an "almost fully developed female body." Persons with CAIS have observable external sex characteristics - phenotype - that are female. But they do not have female reproductive organs - no ovaries, Fallopian tubes, uterus, and they usually only have the lower or distal portion of a vagina.

Also, AFAIK, persons with CAIS are not eligible for uterus transplants, not even for trials. And for various reasons, they probably would have a very difficult time growing a human fetus to term because every organ and cell in the human body has sex chromosomes. Sex chromosomes affect not just our dedicated sex organs and characteristics, they affect how all our cells and various organs develop and function. What's more, pregnancy involves a woman's entire body, not just her uterus and other reproductive organs.

For example, XX kidneys function differently to XY kidneys - only XX kidneys can do the job of handling/cleansing all the extra fluid/blood volume a pregnancy creates. Also, various female internal organs are designed move out of the way to accommodate the expanding size of the uterus during pregnancy; and female humans also grow an entirely new organ - a placenta - starting early in pregnancy. Without the ability to grow a placenta, sustaining a pregnancy is impossible. I suspect that the instructions for how and when to grow a placenta might come from having female genetics.

The idea that a uterus can be popped into the body of an XY person and - voila! - that person instantly becomes capable of pregnancy is a male fantasy that is insulting to women coz it downplays and erases all the myriad, complex and essential things that a female body must do in order to grow an embryo/fetus to term.