Scholars: Uterus Transplants for Males Should be Covered by Insurance

Why is everything somebody else’s problem? No one ever wants to take responsibility or blame for anything, and it’s grinding on my last nerve.

This is just one of the many examples of why academia is quickly losing respect (including mine).

From The College Fix:

Government and private insurers have no moral reason not to pay for uterus transplants for biological males who identify as women, medical scholars wrote in a controversial June article in the American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics.

The peer-reviewed paper by Timothy Murphy, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, and Kelsey Mumford, a medical student at the University of Texas at Austin, came to the conclusion after analyzing medical and bioethical questions regarding insurance coverage of uterus transplants, or UTx, for “transwomen and transmen.”

“Even if there are limits on subsidies, the case could be made that no moral obstacle stands in the way of justifying subsidies for UTx for some transwomen and transmen, just as there seems to be no fully persuasive argument against gestating a child via UTx,” they wrote.

Their article received attention and backlash. Some accused the American Medical Association of hypocrisy for taking a stance on the issue while claiming to be apolitical.

In response to the criticism, the AMA released a “fact check” stating it “has no policy or advocacy positions on uterus transplantation, nor has it proposed taxpayer funding of such procedures.”

Regarding the feasibility of a biological male being implanted with a uterus and gestating a child, Murphy and Mumford stated it is possible.

“Even though there has been no uterus transplant to date in transwomen that we know of, some clinicians have maintained that there are no absolute barriers in anatomy, hormones, and obstetric considerations that would rule out the possibility of successful UTx in transwomen,” they wrote, referring to a 2021 Bioethics article by OB-GYNs in Montreal, Canada.

I never thought I would say this, but… I hope insurance companies keep up their stingy reputation on this one.

Now… this is still a bit of a non-issue, given that transplanting a uterus into a man isn’t something that’s even been done yet. But… I find it a little funny that we’re already having people complain about the fact that the patient will have to pay for it.

If you’re a grown a$$ man who wants a uterus, then be my guest… it’s a free country. But good grief… pay for it yourself. I know none of these wingnut activists want to hear this, but… a man will not die as a result of being denied a free uterus. This is not a problem that has ever, or will ever, exist.

If you want to subject yourself to voluntary surgery, then the money needs to come out of your pocket. It shouldn’t be taxpayer-funded, and insurance companies shouldn’t be shelling out free surgeries because of societal pressure and the fear of being labeled transphobic.

There are so many things that insurance companies don’t cover when they should… but this isn’t one of them.