I'm disgusted

[andrewducker]

If you are a woman, know one, or are related to one then you'll almost certainly be as sickened as I am by this article on discrimination against pregnant mothers.  But not terribly surprised by most of it.  The bit that gets to me is that an advisor to the government is saying it, and nobody is speaking out to contradict him...

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[johanna-alice.livejournal.com]

I should apologise a little - through one thing and another I'm in bolshy militant TS mode right now.

There was an incident about five years ago of a woman getting pregnant after a hysterectomy. Apparently the egg was fertilised as normal in the fallopian tube, but there was no womb for it to go to. Instead the embryo attached itself to a point somewhere in the womans digestive system, developed normally and was delivered by c-section.

It's interesting to speculate that a similar embryo introduced into a genetic male could theoretically develop in a similar way. I guess hormonal queues would be the stumbling block and it would probably therefore be simpler to have a female rather than male child.

The other example I know of is a bit of a cheat, but with the possibilities of stem-cell therapies could be possible. In China two TS's (A MTF and FTM) had successful surgery that effectively swapped their sex organs. From there it's easy to postulate a circumstance where stem-cells have the y chromosone replaced with a duplicated x chromosone and are triggered to develop into ovaries...

The thing to my eyes is that this is just another form of gender reassignment surgery, but on a micro rather than macro scale...