cannabiscomrade:

terfslying:

nerdylilpeebee:

benyw:

cannabiscomrade:

A huge medical step for trans women, cis women and other people struggling with fertility 💕

No ‘cis’ women will benefit from this. Womb transplants should be banned for everyone, worldwide.

This whole ‘deceased donor’ line may be true in this particular case, but it’s also a smokescreen to mask the fact that poor women of colour will have their organs harvested for the benefit of rich white westerners. The womb transplant industry will use WOC for spare parts just like the surrogacy industry does today. Men in India already force their wives to sell their kidneys, selling their wombs after delivering a son will be the next step if we don’t act to ban it now.

@terfslying I’ll let you, as a disabled cis woman (and a superior discourser who would probably know more about this topic than me), handle this.

In fairness the potential for illegal organ harvesting is terrible. But the chances of it actually happening on an explosively wide scale are… slim to nil. You can’t just cut out a uterus and throw it on the market, it has to be within a transplant recipients body within 6-12 hours. Transplants already exist and if WOC were going to be used as spare parts, most poor women in developing nations would only have 1 kidney. I don’t doubt it unfortunately has happened to some people but the potential for misuse never stopped us from developing every other kind of transplant. Hell, skin transplants are the easiest thing to do and you don’t see a lot of poor women in developing company being forced to sell their skin.

But cis women will benefit too. You know who will? I will! A cis woman! My Gynecologist told my plainly that my uterus is “hostile” to fetuses. My eggs are fine, but my chances of actually getting one implanted? Not gonna happen. IVF won’t help because that still relies on the egg being able to implant in the uterus. I can’t take hormone therapies to improve my own womb because without fail when exposed to any kind of progesterone including tiny amounts used in IVF pessaries I get major depressive episodes. A uterus transplant would potentially let me be a mother. I would adore it if this technology was available for me.

Challenging new medical innovations just because they help trans women as well as cis women is a dick move. And pretending no cis women will benefit from this is just ignorant.

Let’s not neglect to mention that the original article (linked in another reblog by me) mentioned that this has specifically been performed with live donors before- and deceased transplants are the obvious next step.

Consensual organ donation is a thing, trans women aren’t here to steal your organs for a procedure that’s only in its infancy with regards to gender confirmation and fertility support. Y’all aren’t hitting up organ donors for supporting the illegal organ market because they’re giving someone a new lung or liver.

Plus, transmisogynists/TERFs have never shown support for intersex women and cis women struggling with fertility. They use pseudo-biology to encourage isolation based on their inability to have children or different hormones. They love to use things like this to isolate all women who don’t fit in their stringent categories of biological womanhood. 

I don’t think benyw is trying to say organ stealing will happen on a large scale. I think what they’re saying is that WOC will be pressured into it for financial reasons as they currently are pressured into surrogacy