Thanks to specific hormone therapy, a 30-year-old transgender woman became the first officially registered woman to be able to breastfeed a baby. According to “Transgender Health” magazine, the patient underwent an experimental treatment regimen that lasted about three months, which included hormones to induce lactation, an anti-nausea drug and another to stimulate the breasts. The breast milk produced by the patient was enough to breastfeed the baby during its first six months. Even without undergoing any breast enlargement surgery, the regimen allowed her breasts to develop fully. “This is a big deal. Many transgender women are looking to experience non-transgender women, so I can see this being extremely popular,” said Joshua Safer, a doctor at Boston Medical Center in the United States. According to the woman, the idea of looking for doctors came when her partner was five and a half months pregnant. However, her partner did not want to breastfeed the couple's baby, and so she sought treatment herself to be able to do so. Even though experts have recorded that the baby's development has been normal, they say it is still too early to know whether transgender breastfeeding is safe and nutritious.
