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aaaja 4 days ago

What would be the point of that? I'd be surprised if it got past an ethics committee.

Aside from this, the male pelvis isn't shaped to accommodate a womb, and males don't have the hormonal milieu to enable pregnancy.

The closest that researchers have come to having a male gestate a foetus was in rats. But they had to connect the bloodstream of the male rat to a pregnant female rat, where both were implanted with embryos at the same time. Even then, it worked less than 5% of the time.

derektank 4 days ago | parent [-]

Presumably, the point would be that a trans woman wanted to have kids without using a surrogate (which some people have ethical qualms with)