{"id":305914,"date":"2024-01-29T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=305914"},"modified":"2024-01-26T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T02:21:39","slug":"female-gender-reassignment-pregnant-after-mastectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/female-gender-reassignment-pregnant-after-mastectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Female seeking gender reassignment found to be pregnant after mastectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A biological female undergoing gender reassignment surgery has found out she was pregnant, shortly before she was due to have a hysterectomy.<\/p>\n

Named only as “Marco,” the Telegraph reported<\/a> that Marco found out she was five months pregnant after having her breasts removed. Italian news outlet La Repubblica said<\/a> she had already been undergoing hormone therapy, and after the mastectomy, had planned to have a hysterectomy.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the pregnancy is discovered, the first thing to do is to immediately suspend the hormone therapy,\u201d Giulia Senofonte, an endocrinologist and expert on gender therapy, told La Repubblica. “If the halting of the therapy is not immediate, there could be consequences, especially in the first trimester of pregnancy, which is an important time for the development of the baby\u2019s organs. It\u2019s difficult to talk about it in abstract terms but it all depends on the timing of the suspension of the dosages of testosterone that the person is taking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Already, it has been suggested that Marco have an abortion, though Italy only permits abortion after 90 days of pregnancy when there are either serious fetal defects or significant health risks for the mother. Matilde Vigneri, a consultant at a gender dysphoria clinic in Palermo, tried to argue that the psychological stress alone should allow Marco to kill her preborn child. At five months pregnant, a D&E abortion, sometimes referred to as a “dismemberment” abortion, would be done — the child’s limbs torn from his or her torso before his or her skull is crushed and removed:<\/p>\n