Gujarat doctor wants to become a mother by changing gender, freezes semen for future use

Gujarat's first transwoman doctor, Dr Jesnoor Dayara, cryopreserved four vials of semen on Monday ahead of a sex change surgery. She preserved her sperms at Dr Nayana Patel’s hospital in Anand, so that she can be a biological mother to her child in future.

According to a Times of India report, 25-year-old Dr Dayara recently earned the MBBS degree from a Russian university. She was born in the small Gujarati town of Godhra in Panchmahal. She recalled how she always felt like a woman trapped in a man's body and that she wanted to come out but for the fear of shocking her parents, she chose to keep quiet.

However, going abroad for studies was liberating for her that helped her break the cage that kept her feelings, emotions, identity and instincts trapped. 
It is Dr Dayara’s dream to mother a child that is biologically hers. “Goddess Kali has given me the strength to become a woman. A woman can be a father, a mother, and a friend as the need arises,” she told TOI. “A uterus does not make a mother, a loving heart does,” she further added.

Dr Dayara is prepping up for the Medical Council of India examination so that she can practice medicine in India. Also, she is supposed to undergo sex-change surgery later this year.

Dr Dayara says she will undertake the journey to motherhood once she is ready and she will opt for surrogacy in which she will use her frozen sperms and will require an egg donor and a surrogate mother, who will carry the embryo- that is developed in a laboratory by mixing her sperms with a biological woman donor’s egg- in her uterus.

However, she is aware of The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, according to which LGBTQ couples, live-in couples, and single males cannot opt for surrogacy in India. Commenting on the bill, which is yet to be passed by the Upper House of Parliament, Dr Dayara said, “As a country, we need to be compassionate to each human’s biological desires.”