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This Controversial New Hormone Treatment Allows Transgender Women to Breastfeed

In February, a 30-year-old woman in New York City became the first male-to-female transgender person to breastfeed a baby. When the transgender woman told doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York that she wanted to breastfeed her pregnant partner’s baby, they put her on a regimen of drugs that included an anti-nausea medication licensed for use in Britain and Canada but banned in the United States.

In February, a 30-year-old woman in New York City became the first male-to-female transgender person to breastfeed a baby.

When the transgender woman told doctors at the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York that she wanted to breastfeed her pregnant partner’s baby, they put her on a regimen of drugs that included an anti-nausea medication licensed for use in Britain and Canada but banned in the United States.

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