How to be a Woman on Twitter, by Alessandra Asteriti
How to be a Woman on Twitter, by Alessandra Asteriti On 28 May 2019, I saw on my TL on Twitter an article about how Imperial College, with funding provided by the NHS, is planning to trial womb transplants on transgender women. The wombs would be sourced either from dead women donors, or from transmen wanting a hysterectomy. Amongst the proponents of the procedure, a plastic surgeon from London, who runs a clinic where surgical procedures are offered to transgender people wanting to undergo a complete sex change (which for transmen includes a complete mastectomy and hysterectomy; the trans community likes to refer to these as top and bottom operations, partially to obfuscate, partially to make them sound harmless by adopting an infantile language. But they are operations that render these females sterile and deprive them of their breasts and uterus. Any woman who has wished to be sterilised will know how difficult it is to get this operation done, as doctors will tell them