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March of the Male Mums: Women having sex changes on the NHS are also receiving free IVF... with three British men born female already 'on brink' of having babies

At least three British men who were born female are 'on the brink' of becoming parents using IVF techniques, according to a top doctor. And dozens more are now having their eggs frozen at NHS clinics before undergoing surgery or hormone therapy to switch sex. The controversial treatment means that a British transgender man could soon become a parent - all funded by the taxpayer. American Thomas Beatie (top) was the first man to give birth. Dr James Barrett (bottom left), of the NHS Gender Identity Clinic in West London, said three of his patients who have transitioned from women to men were close to becoming parents. And Riley Middlemore (bottom right) hopes to freeze his eggs before making the full transition from female to male.

 

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A medical first: Thomas Beatie, when pregnant for the first time. He was the first man to give birth and went on to have two more sons


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[h=3]THE TRAILBLAZER: AMERICAN WHO BECAME WORLD'S FIRST PREGNANT MAN[/h]

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In 2008 Thomas Beatie proved it is possible for trans-men to physically have a baby themselves if they keep their female reproductive organs. He is pictured with his daughter Susan and son Jensen

Most transgender parents who freeze their eggs before fully transitioning from female to male will attempt to have children through a surrogate.
But in 2008 Thomas Beatie proved it is possible for trans-men to physically have a baby themselves if they keep their female reproductive organs.
The former teen beauty queen from Honolulu had started taking testosterone at 23. In 2002 he underwent surgery to give him a more manly appearance.
But he chose not to have a hysterectomy and at the age of 34 he conceived his daughter Susan with the help of an anonymous sperm donor.
He went on to have two more sons.



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[h=3]THE CHAMPION: DOCTOR WHO HAS THREE MEN READY TO BE 'MOTHERS' [/h]Dr James Barrett, consultant psychiatrist and lead clinician at Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, believes that transgender men and women have just as much right as cancer patients to preserve their fertility through the NHS.

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One transgender candidate for the treatment is 17-year-old Riley Middlemore, born Rebecca, who wants to freeze eggs before transitioning to a man, so in the future – using donor sperm – his girlfriend would be able to become a surrogate and give birth to their child.
Last night, his mother Carrie said: ‘He’s very passionate about having his own children, but he wants his girlfriend to have the children – he doesn’t want to give birth.’
In 2008, American Thomas Beatie shocked the world by giving birth to a daughter, Susan, after changing gender.
Mr Beatie went on to bear two other children using donor sperm, because his wife had undergone a hysterectomy while he had kept his womb.
But Dr Barrett said that in most cases the child would be born with a surrogate and the role of the transgender man who provided the eggs ‘would be that of father’.
But Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, said the procedure risked upsetting ‘the natural order’ and said children would be ‘confused by not knowing if the parent is a father or a mother’.
He added: ‘Any child is best brought up by knowing the biological father and biological mother.’


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[h=3]THE CANDIDATE: TEENAGER WHO WANTS TO FREEZE HIS EGGS [/h]Riley Middlemore hopes to freeze his eggs before making the full transition from female to male. The 17-year-old has revealed that he wants his girlfriend to act as a surrogate with his eggs so he can have his own biological children.

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THE DEBATE: SHOULD THE NHS FUND TREATMENT?




Yes: Dr Peter Swinyard, Chairman of the Family Doctor Association

Whether the NHS should provide complex fertility services at a time it is very, very cash strapped is a big question.
But if we accept that the NHS should be offering IVF and other fertility treatments, then I firmly believe these services must be offered irrespective of gender.
We must not discriminate, just because someone happens to have had a sex change.
Some people will say that, by offering sperm and egg freezing to transgender people, we are mucking around with the natural order of things. But IVF itself is mucking around with the natural order of things. It is saying: ‘OK God, you stuffed the plumbing up, so we are going to sort it out. We are going to let someone conceive when nature would not let them.’
This is an issue of fairness to transgender individuals. They are not lesser people, they are just different people.





No: Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough

At a time when NHS authorities across the country are having to ration cataract operations, hip replacements and even hearing aids to make ends meet, should taxpayers really be asked to fund fertility treatment so men can give birth?
The NHS is does not have endless pots of cash and, with accident and emergency departments and hospitals bursting at the seams, we should stop pretending that it does.
When you go into realms like this, I am not sure why the taxpayer should be funding it.
It’s something that people could surely fund privately if they want to.
We’ve had changes in the Cancer Drugs Fund which will stop some cancer drugs being available to people on cost grounds.
I just sometimes ask if the NHS is getting its priorities right.



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[Seymour]

Speechless

 

[Willie99]

those poor kids, life is hard enough and people can be cruel (especially kids when they're growing up)

I'll never understand how so many people don't have live saving procedures covered (before high deductibles under Obamacare anyhow), yet stuff like this is

 

[ScottL]

Go ahead Joe, you can borrow the penguin.

 

[busterhyman]

it's a mad mad mad mad world-not as funny as the movie though