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Adrian Addison & Rosaleen Fenton

Doctor planning risky womb transplant to allow transgender woman to carry a baby

A surgeon has told how he is planning the world's first womb transplant on a transgender woman who was born male.

The organs would be taken from a dead donor or from another woman who decided to become a man and had their wombs removed in the process.

This would mean that the person could fall pregnant through IVF - although the operation has never officially been performed successfully yet.

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