130: The Science of Uterus Transplants & The Danish Girl (with NOAHFINNCE)

Uterus transplants are on the verge of becoming a common surgery for cis women, but one of the first women to ever receive this kind of surgery wasn’t cis… The life of Lilli Elbe, one of the first women to receive gender affirming surgery, has been romanticised and repackaged as a tender tragedy - but her real story is far more interesting & upliftng.You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel:http://youtube.com/SciGuys Help keep the show running by supporting us on Patreon!http://patreon.com/sciguys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPodFollow the SCI GUYS@notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforth References & Further ReadingTransplants https://www.britannica.com/science/transplant-surgery/Organ-transplants https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778785/ https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/who-we-are/a-history-of-donation-transfusion-and-transplantation/ Uterus Transplants https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/3/3/267/653944https://www.britannica.com/science/uterus https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29210893/ https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0037-1606321.pdf https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/turkish-woman-has-world-s-first-womb-transplant.388596 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-04/woman-has-baby-after-womb-transplant-in-sweden/5790726?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-29516910https://time.com/5044565/exclusive-first-u-s-baby-born-after-a-uterus-transplant/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/health/yeast-infectionled-to-removal-of-transplanted-uterus.html?_r=0 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/564280 https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3109/00016349.2010.520688 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1432-2277.2012.01438.x https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/07/world/medical-first-a-transplant-of-a-uterus.html Uterus Transplants for Trans Women https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2775302 https://jme.bmj.com/content/45/10/687.full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6492192/ Lilli Elbe https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lili-Elbe https://www.biography.com/artist/lili-elbe