Yes, there is. There's already something unnerving about organ transplantation in general, and this is exacerbated by the fact that people are killed for their organs. In China, it's just that simple, while here, patients are declared brain-dead while biologically humming along so that their organs can be harvested in tip-top shape.
When you go from life-saving transplants (heart, liver) to lifestyle-choice transplants, it gets super-creepy. As observed above, once it's been done for a woman, it will be done for a man as soon as possible, and then things are really sick.
Indeed.
I can’t help but think that the overall fitness for survival of the human race is threatened by things like this.
Those who can afford such procedures (who, to a large part, represent the more intelligent humans) rely more and more on “assisted reproduction”, while poor humans (who, to a large part, are the less intelligent) who cannot afford these procedures continue to reproduce naturally. These trends have long-term consequences.
I do not know if it would be possible for a man to give birth using these procedures. He would have a soup of drugs in his system—hormone suppressors and replacement hormones to simulate female characteristics, as well as immune suppressors to prevent rejection of the transplanted uterus. During pregnancy (as I am sure you know well!), the mother’s body undergoes dynamic hormonal changes throughout the pregnancy; how well can that be replicated artificially? Even if such a pregnancy were successfully maintained until term, what would the long-term consequences of it be on the child? On boys, I would think the consequences would be worse than for girls, because boys develop as boys when their testes begin producing testosterone early in development; if their gestating father is taking hormone suppressors and those cross the placental barrier, the effects on a developing boy would be dire.
I am firmly of the belief that just because we can do something does not mean we should do it. I say this as a scientist.