{"id":2016949,"date":"2023-08-30T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/advocacy-group-slams-medical-association-paper-for-seeking-taxpayer-funding-to-transplant-uteruses-in-men\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:16:40","slug":"advocacy-group-slams-medical-association-paper-for-seeking-taxpayer-funding-to-transplant-uteruses-in-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/advocacy-group-slams-medical-association-paper-for-seeking-taxpayer-funding-to-transplant-uteruses-in-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy group criticizes medical association&#8217;s request for taxpayer funding to perform uterus transplants in men."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fadvocacy-group-slams-medical-association-paper-for-seeking-taxpayer-funding-to-transplant-uteruses-in-men%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>American Medical Association\u2062 Paper Sparks Controversy Over Uterus Transplants for Transgender Individuals<\/h2>\n<p>A nonprofit \u200badvocacy group\u200c has strongly criticized a paper published by the\u200d American Medical Association (AMA) that suggests taxpayer funds\u2064 should be used \u200cto \u2064subsidize uterus \u200dtransplants \u2062for transgender men. The paper, featured in the AMA&#8217;s &#8220;Journal\u2062 of Ethics,&#8221; explores the\u200d possibility of providing federal subsidies or\u200d insurance coverage for \u2062uterus transplantation (UTx) procedures for trans individuals.<\/p>\n<p>UTx\u2063 is a surgical procedure where \u2062a healthy uterus is transplanted from one person \u200dto \u200danother. While the procedure has been successful among \u2062women, the paper acknowledges that no pregnancy\u200d has been\u200b achieved through UTx in a transwoman. Despite this, the AMA argues that some transgender individuals may seek UTx to gestate children or \u2063affirm their\u200d gender identity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A case could be\u200d made that no \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-ama-wants-to-rip-your-womb-from-your-dead-body-and-stuff-it-between-a-delusional-mans-legs\/\" title=\"AMA seeks to transplant wombs postmortem for transgender individuals.\">moral obstacle stands<\/a> in the way of justifying subsidies for UTx\u2064 for some\u2062 transwomen and transmen,&#8221; the AMA paper \u2064states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The cost of UTx in the United States \u2062ranges\u200c from $100,000 to $300,000. While some states require private insurers to cover certain in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, \u2064most \u2064insurers \u2063do not. The federal government\u200d also does\u200b not subsidize fertility\u200d treatments\u200b except under specific \u200ccircumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The American\u2062 Family Association (AFA) has \u200bcondemned the AMA paper, calling it a\u200d &#8220;dangerous\u2062 proposal.&#8221; The AFA argues that taxpayers should not be responsible for\u2063 funding uterus transplants for \u2064biological men. They \u2064have launched \u2064a petition urging the AMA to \u200dreconsider their stance and consider the potential consequences of irreversible gender-modifying procedures.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the\u2064 petition has garnered over 32,100\u2062 signatures.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sounding more like something from a\u200b Frankenstein\u2064 movie, the AMA\u200d paper\u2062 says there are no moral or \u2063ethical reasons\u200b why you and\u200c I shouldn&#8217;t pony up\u200c our\u2063 taxpayer dollars \u200bto\u2062 help transgenders improve their &#8216;mental health,'&#8221; the AFA \u2064stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite publishing the paper, the AMA has clarified that it maintains &#8220;no\u2063 position&#8221; on the issue. They emphasize \u2063that the\u200d AMA Journal of Ethics is editorially independent from the organization and that the \u2064viewpoints expressed \u2063in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/credit-suisses-first-boston-plan-in-doubt-amid-crisis-talks-bloomberg\/\" title=\"Credit Suisse\u2019s First Boston plan in doubt amid crisis talks -Bloomberg\">article belong solely<\/a> to the authors.<\/p>\n<p>A study conducted in 2021 found that 94 \u200dpercent of transgender individuals believed that the ability\u2062 to gestate and give birth would enhance their femininity. However, critics\u2063 argue that the AMA should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/advocacy-group-slams-medical-association-paper-for-seeking-taxpayer-funding-to-transplant-uteruses-in-men\/\" title=\"Advocacy group criticizes medical association's request for taxpayer funding to perform uterus transplants in men.\">prioritize funding objective\u200d medical studies<\/a> on transgender medicine\u200d rather than \u2064taking activist positions on delicate topics.<\/p>\n<h3>Uterine \u2062Transplants and Gender Identity<\/h3>\n<p>The AMA paper has sparked controversy at \u200da \u2063time when the idea of transferring uteruses from females to males \u2064is gaining traction among transgender activists. \u200bIn a video that gained \u200battention earlier this year, a community navigator at the University of Pittsburgh\u200c Medical Center Children&#8217;s\u2063 Hospital discussed the possibility of\u200c uterine transplants from &#8220;live donors&#8221; to transgender individuals.<\/p>\n<p>There is\u200b also\u200c an\u200c ongoing effort to blur the binary understanding of male and female sex\u2062 identities. During a \u2064hearing of the\u200c House Oversight\u200d and Reform Committee, a medical director for Planned Parenthood Gulf \u2062Coast claimed that &#8220;men\u2062 can\u2063 have pregnancies, especially trans men.&#8221; This statement has been met with opposition from those who argue that biological sex determines gender\u200c identity.<\/p>\n<p>While the\u200c AMA\u200d maintains its neutrality on the issue, \u200dthe debate surrounding uterus transplants for transgender individuals continues to provoke strong reactions from both \u2063supporters and critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nonprofit advocacy group criticized the American Medical Association (AMA) for proposing taxpayer-funded subsidies for uterus transplants in transgender men. The AMA paper, published in June, discussed the possibility of providing federal support or insurance coverage for uterus transplantation (UTx) in transgender individuals. The nonprofit group strongly opposed this idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2016950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}