This is what I really don't understand. Menstruation and childbirth are painful, exhausting, and occasionally life threatening. And having a uterus is no guarantee that you'll get the ideal procreative outcome. Why would you want something that is so risky, painful, and annoying, especially if you're already set up to procreate in the "fun" manner?

The only explaination I can come up with is that these bodily functions still hold massive amounts of spiritual or subconscious power in the human psyce, despite millenia of patriarchal programming designed to paint them as demonic, evil, and gross. This is the wellspring of women-specific power and no matter how men frame that power, they can't take it from us and they can't get rid of it. For colonization junkies, that's gotta be a real sore spot.

This trans uterus envy seems like a 21st century reversal of Freud's penis envy, which was itself a reversal of men's inherent jealousy of women. So men are back in touch with their most deeply held feelings and are no longer denying them, but sadly their sense of entitlement and their desire to colonize hasn't dissipated. sigh.