Sex Reassignment Surgery - Potential Future Advances

Potential Future Advances

See also: Uterus_transplantation#Application_on_transgendered_women

Medical advances may eventually make childbearing possible by using a donor uterus long enough to carry a child to term as anti-rejection drugs do not seem to affect the fetus. The DNA in a donated ovum can be removed and replaced with the DNA of the receiver. Further in the future stem cell biotechnology may also make this possible, with no need for anti-rejection drugs.

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