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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Now a new publication in the journal Bioethics makes the case that research trials should consider including transgender women

So some useless publication that nobody reads, got it.

As transgender rights gain increasing mainstream acceptance, the political and social environment could also be ripe for broadening the scope of the surgical innovation. The paper suggests a transgender woman could possibly undergo a uterus transplant sometime in the future if an ethical framework is absorbed into clinical practice and research trials demonstrate the safety and success of uterus transplantation in this population.

So this article says that because TiMs really wanna get pregnant super duper bad, we should consider that first and I guess there might be some safety crap but the most important thing is how they really really want it, guys. They admit freely that these are in the research trial stage, and provide no context for the medical reality of the procedure - is a 30% success rate supposed to be good? Is n=60 enough to say that this is a well-understood procedure - and yet TiMs already have a "right" to it.

Nobody has a right to get pregnant. People have a right to not be sterilized by evil people (hm kinda like the ethical disaster of transitioning minors) but goddamn, everything is a right to these people. The word basically means "I want it." Seeing how our society has apparently been overtaken by a collective delusion makes me think it's already too late for us.

[–]aloris342 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bioethics as a field has gone off the deep end, IMHO. As you point out, part of the problem is that the governing philosophy seems to be "I want it" rather than going with what is really healthy for our bodies. Hence, sterilization of young people can somehow be framed as a benefit, even though it is objectively damaging.

Also worried about the issue of women as organ donors for this kind of thing.