| # | Author | Message |
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| DAR
Thu 4/3/2008 12:42p | No I didn't watch Junior with Arnold this is actually a true story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200
80403/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_pregnant_man;_ylt=Aoxj31mbYsOJ.eMMxqiSW8XtiBIF
I don't know what to say. |
2
| mele
Thu 4/3/2008 3:59p | I'm torn about this issue. On one hand, I believe that it's not up to me to define anybody by their gender, yadda, yadda, yadda, but on the other hand, I feel that this muddies people's perceptions about the transgendered. Transgendered people want to be truly treated and thought of as their preferred sex but most men wouldn't be pregnant even if they could (or am I wrong about this?) I feel as if this will confuse most people and will make them be even more distrustful, dismissive and hostile towards the transgendered community.
Part of me feels this is a step back in the way the public views the transgendered but, in a way, the whole point of it is that we shouldn't define people based on their reproductive organs.
I'm really trying not to be creeped out by it but, I must admit, I am a little. I think it's because I try really hard to see transgendered people as the gender they want (for a better word) to be, so this seems like a real pregnant man, which kind of makes me say "ew". Then I think "whoa, I know too much about this guy's body."
I hope these people are awesome parents because there will be a lot if issues to deal with. |
3
| Ursula
Thu 4/3/2008 4:14p | You know what annoys me about this? It is not a man.
It is a woman who became a man and kept her internal plumbing. I totally get the transgendered stuff, that she always felt more manly, etc., but she was born with the workings of a woman, so it is not surprising that she is expecting now.
If a real man got pregnant, then I'd be really impressed. They've had this person's story over the morning programs and it just irritates me that they are not ever explaining the whole story except as an aside. |
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| mele
Thu 4/3/2008 4:21p | Yeah, it's not the leap of technology that the media seems to want to make this out to be.
I'm watching this man on Oprah right now. Maybe he's not explaining himself all that well but he just doesn't like he always wanted to be a man...he just isn't comfortable with female gender roles. He kept his reproductive organs because he always wanted to have a child. I don't know...he's not like most transgendereds that I've known/read about. |
5
| DlandDug
Thu 4/3/2008 4:31p | My ds explained this to me in the car on the way to school. It is a pregnant man. It's simply the case that the pregnant man has a uterus. It's just that clear to a 12 year old. |
6
| Lady Starlight
Thu 4/3/2008 5:35p | Ursula, I totally get what you are saying. My question about this whole story is that if this man is in a secure relationship with a woman, why not just let HIS WIFE have the baby in the first place? |
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| mele
Thu 4/3/2008 5:51p | His wife is quite a bit older than he is...she has at least two grown daughters from a previous relationship. |
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| Lady Starlight
Thu 4/3/2008 5:52p | ok,but shes willing to have another child though. Does it say that shes unable to have any more children due to medical or age related reasons? I'm curious. |
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| Lady Starlight
Thu 4/3/2008 5:54p | There are some interestingly odd things going on out there. |
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| mele
Thu 4/3/2008 5:54p | From Oprah's website:
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/sli
de/200804/20080403/slide_20080403_350_101.jhtml?promocode=HP22
Nancy, the mother of two grown daughters from a previous marriage, says the effects of endometriosis left her unable to have more children. "[Doctors] removed my womb," she says. |
