A doctor has told how he is 'optimistic' about his plans to transplant a uterus into a transgender woman, so she could go on 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.
"Every transgender woman wants to be as female as possible," said Dr Narendra Kaushik, who runs a busy surgery in new Delhi.
"And that includes being a mother. The way towards this is with a uterine transplant, the same as a kidney or any other transplant.
"This is the future. We cannot predict exactly when this will happen but it will happen very soon.