Pregnant Man

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by kstar

He only kept the internal organs, superficially, he's a man. Gender issues are a sensitive subject I know, but if someone says that they want to be identified as a man, they should be.

I don't think I agree. I probably would refer to someone I knew in real life by whatever gender they asked me to mainly to be polite, but I don't know that taking hormones and maybe even having surgery really does change your sex in a way that the state should be obligated to recognize.

This "guy" is one example why. The state where he currently lives recognizes him as a man and he has a uterus and is pregnant. He's not a man by any sane standard, and I'm not sure they rest of us are obligated to play along because he thinks he feels like a man despite actually being biologically a women.

[SWTXBelle]

Is his "wife" unable to bear children? Did I miss that? Cause otherwise, why do this other than for the publicity.

eta - okay, found it. But still . . . I feel for this child. Poor thing will be famous for the rest of her life - for something she had nothing to do with.

[LightBulb]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

He's not a man by any sane standard

Not only is that inflammatory, but it also is a logical fallacy.

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

despite actually being biologically a women.

Debatable.

[ZTABullwinkle]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

If this person is pumped full of artificial hormones in order to have male-characteristics and be legally "a man", I wonder what the health of the baby will be, being exposed to all of these unnatural hormone levels? Weird.

Eta: I say this because I read a book called "All She Wanted", by Aphrodite Jones, which was the story of Teena Brandon (i.e. the "Boys Don't Cry" movie). When Teena's Mom was pregnant with her, the Mom did take a short course of some type of hormone therapy (I can't remember what for...) and I'm convinced that the fetus of Teena being exposed to that adversely affected her.

I have to wonder also what effect those hormones will have on the first baby. According to what I have read, "he" did not go back on the hormones after the birth of the first baby. If so, how is it he still have facial hair?

Personally, I feel sorry for the children of this couple. Can you imagine the ridicule they are going to face growing up?