Posted on 08/03/2015 1:32:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A California transgender teen who dreams of becoming a dad froze his eggs so he can one day have biological children.
Cole Carman is one of the first transgender teenagers to undergo fertility treatment and egg harvesting before transitioning genders, his doctor said.
"I have always wanted kids," the 18-year-old from San Francisco told NBC Bay Area. "I like kids, so I wanted to do it so I could have my own biological kids when I get older. Eight to 10 years from now, I want them to be related to me."
Carman's doctor Aimee Eyvazzadeh harvested 40 eggs from Carman's ovaries in May. Twenty-three of them have been frozen, so he can use them in the future.
The soon-to-be college freshman, who was adopted when he was 5 weeks old, was likely to have more success in fertility treatment if he did it before starting hormone therapy, Eyvazzadeh said, adding that she has worked with older transgender men in the past to try to harvest eggs after they have transitioned.
"If the ovaries have shut down, then it is really hard to wake them up after years of testosterone use, so you are not going to get as many eggs as you would before you transitioned," Eyvazzadeh said.
That made the decision to start fertility treatment now a no-brainer, Carman said. His parents helped him pay for the $13,000 treatment.
"Who doesn't want children that are part of them?" mom C.J. said. "My husband and I could never have children so I understand how that feels."
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This one will make your head spin.
You got that right.
California has become a waterless, roasty-toasty parade of freaks.
Bwaaaa-ha-ha-ha
A “no-brainer”, indeed
On to the next freak show.
Hey whatever-you-are, I hope eight to 10 years from now you don’t get to have kids.
Isn’t there a grammatical rule that you can’t refer to a specific person as he and she in the same paragraph?
[so I wanted to do it so I could have my own biological kids when I get older]
OK, I’m confused. The article said she was transitioning into being a man. Then he could have kids later, right?
At least that’s how biology worked when I was in school. Maybe biology changed or something.
Cynthia McKinney eyes...
She still won’t be able to f*** herself, unless reproductive and transgender science has advanced farther than I thought. But he/she is prepared if it does. The ultimate in self-love, self-cloning the new/old fashioned way.
“She” in the headline, “he” in the article. If the writer was going to use both in one sentence, s/he could have said that “he” was adopted when “she” was five weeks old.
And whatever monsters it produces will ultimately become wards of the state.
This is so weird I don’t know how they report it without labeling it satire.
Years ago they shuttled them off to insane asylums. Now we celebrate their madness— what a conundrum.
She says he wants to get married some day. To what, I wonder.
When you're breaking the laws of God & nature, you can't worry about little rules like that.
The writing rules are really screwed up. It took until the fourth sentence to determine what the gender is of this person, this “it”. Talk about a circle jerk.
Can I volunteer for the Mars Space Program yet?
I think we are getting to the root of this problem.
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