Biology Quiz
There’s something really disturbing about this story. I’m thinking about the following sentence in particular:
…it may even be technically possible one day to transplant a womb into a man, and use hormone injections to allow a pregnancy to succeed.
Consider, for example, this scenario. Harold feels that he is a woman trapped in a man’s body so he has a sex change operation. I’m sorry, that’s insensitive. What I meant to say is that Harold elected to have “male to female gender reassignment surgery”. Harold’s new name is Hazel.
Now, out on the town one evening, Hazel/Harold becomes enamored with Rob. Rob used to be called Amy but recently had female to male gender reassignment surgery, specifically “penile implantation for the neo-phallus patient”.
Later that night, our two friends…um...reach the defining moment for a “successful conclusion to (their) gender reassignment surgery”. This relationship continues for several months until Hazel/Harold, unable to control her maternal instincts, tells Rob/Amy that she needs something more from him. Hazel/Harold figures that a child ought to do the trick. This is, of course, impossible in the truly natural sense as both participants’ plumbing is merely roughed in.
This is where it gets interesting. Hazel/Harold approaches her mother, Carla, with a proposition. Carla would donate her womb to Hazel/Harold and, in return, she gets the grandchild that she always wanted but could never have, since all of her other children that are still living as their birth gender have vowed never to procreate and have taken the appropriate steps to insure this. Carla figures this isn’t such a bad deal since she really isn’t using her womb at this point in her life, with her husband Joe being impotent and all, and she agrees.
Rob/Amy's working set of ovaries produce the necessary egg and Hazel/Harold contributes the needed fertilization, which he conveniently set aside before his transformation in case such a need should arise, and the equation is complete.
Nine months later, Baby Forrest is born. Who is his mother?
I’m waiting…....
Isn’t science wonderful?
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