Do transgender women have a right to gestation?
by Michel Cook, Bio Edge:
Successful womb transplants have given birth to the notion that transgender women or even cisgender men could bear children. In the latest edition of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Amel Alghrani, of the University of Liverpool (UK) strongly defends the idea that they have a right to gestate. “Transgender, non-binary, and other gender plural individuals have the same procreative liberties as cisgender individuals,” she contends. Denying them this right would be tantamount to cissexism.
This would be true even if the person in question already had children as a cisgender man. It is the lived experience that matters:
the question here is not necessarily one of having children; transgender women may already be parents and have had children both prior to gender affirming surgery transitioning and post, depending on what type of surgeries and hormonal therapies they have chosen. The question is one of securing an experience imagined as important to one’s (gender) identity and hoped-for parental bonds.
Denying this right could possibly be a tragedy for the person involved, Alghrani says:
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