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"Man in position" today, this proposal may seem ridiculous, but scientists said that in the coming years, men along with women will be able to become pregnant and bear children. Specialists from the United States said that they are almost ready for a transplant operation for men of female reproductive organs so that they can conceive and give birth to a baby.
Once the great joker Charlie Chaplin bequeathed to the first man who will be able to give birth to a child a million dollars, but until the last moment no one could have thought that this could actually happen.
Specialists noted that today there are successful operations for the transplantation of the uterus for women, it is possible that the same operation can be done to a man. According to scientists, men have all the makings for bearing and giving birth to a child and transplant the uterus into the body of a man. Researchers will be able about 10 years later. In addition to the uterus, an artificial vagina will be needed, through which a direct connection with the uterus will be made.
It is worth noting that it is difficult to deceive nature, as the female organism is maximally adapted to conceive, bear and give birth to a child. In women, another form of the pelvis, besides this, the lymphatic and circulatory system is connected to the uterus. A man for gestation and childbirth is not enough simply to transplant the uterus, it will be necessary to establish a peripheral system. But besides physiology, there are other problems. First of all, there is a high probability that the male organism will begin to reject the fetal egg. In this situation, scientists offer special drugs against rejection. Also during pregnancy, the hormonal background in the women is significantly changing - here, according to scientists, hormonal preparations that will correct the level of female and male sex hormones will help.
In principle, the essence of the idea and the plan for the fulfillment of the task is understandable, one point remains unclear - what is it for? Every scientist dreams of the first to perform such an operation, but who becomes the first volunteer who consciously wants to bear and give birth to a child remains unknown.
For what it is necessary to transplant the uterus to a man, if in nature everything is distributed and the female organism is maximally adapted to pregnancy and childbirth? It can be assumed that such an operation will have some success among homosexuals or transgender people, however, in most countries of this category of persons it is forbidden to have children, since it is possible that education in a same-sex family can affect the infantile psyche. But in the US, freedom comes to the point of absurdity, and almost everything can have children. For example, the Hawaiian Thomas Biti was able to bear and give birth to three children, while he did not need any operation for a uterus transplantation - it was of his nature. Thomas was born a girl who was already in adulthood decided to change the sex. After surgery and hormone therapy, the pretty girl turned into a hairy man named Thomas Bity.
The birth of a child by Thomas was caused by the fact that his wife could not give birth for certain reasons, and he remembered that inside he had female organs, but that Thomas could become pregnant, he had to stop taking male hormones, but this did not become a special problem. According to Thomas, to feel how life grows and moves inside is the most wonderful feeling.
But the example of Thomas is not worthy, because he was a man only on a new passport, despite all the external changes, inside Thomas remained a woman.
Originally born in the body of men, some experts believe, it is not so easy to endure and give birth to a child, but they do not exclude the fact that a man has already been born on the planet Earth, who is destined to do the impossible and in the near future "try on" the role of a pregnant woman.