So-Called "Pregnant Man" Now Expecting Third Baby
See previous posts here.
From People magazine, February 14:
Thomas Beatie gained worldwide attention 2 years ago when he became the 1st known transgendered man to give birth. Now Beatie and his wife, Nancy - who have a daughter and a son - are expecting baby No. 3, according to momlogic.com.
Beatie, born a woman, underwent a sex-change operation but kept his reproductive organs. He made headlines in 2007 after pictures of his pregnant belly became public. Nancy is unable to have children because of a hysterectomy.
Adds momlogic.com...
Who can forget the day Oregon native Thomas Beatie, a transgender living as a man, and his wife welcomed baby girl Susan (June 29, 2008)? Or the day Beatie gave birth to his 2nd child, a boy (June 9, 2009)?
Now, in keeping with his one-kid-per-year tradition, Beatie is pregnant with his 3rd child and is proudly showing off his baby bump.
And from Softpedia.com:
Confirmation of this does not come from Thomas and wife Nancy directly, as was the case with the 2 previous pregnancies, but the aforementioned media outlet claims the report is 100% accurate. Whether the 2 are expecting a baby boy or a girl is not known yet, as neither is the due date, but the report says Thomas is already showing and is very happy for being with child again.
To maintain consistency, liberals are going to have to stop supporting Beatie and complain about him like they do the Duggars. Liberals complain not only for the number of babies Michelle has delivered but also the frequency of her pregnancies.
But here we have Beatie on track to deliver 3 babies in about 3 years. And the 1st 2 were Irish twins, no less. Who would have thought the Duggars would receive competition from such an unlikely source?
Very cute kids.
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Why does Thomas Beatie have to be referred to as the 'so-called "Pregnant Man"'? And why does -Pregnant Man- have to be in "scare quotes"?
59 out of 60 of us human beings are happy with the gender we were born as. Our brains are wired to _like_ being the gender we are, and we can't imagine being any other way. Just try imagining that tomorrow you wake up and discover to your horror that you are the other gender. Scary thought, isn't it?
Now, imagine that instead of 60 people there are 6,000. 5,900 are content with their gender, and 100 are to varying degrees less so. Of the 100, half are accepting of the situation, and the other half are more distressed by the incongruities of daily life. Some handle it by cross-dressing part time, some by taking on an androgynous presentation, some by living mostly or wholly as their true gender -- stopping just short of surgery.
Two out of the hundred have completed a transition to the gender they feel themselves to truly be, including gender reassignment surgery.
Thomas Beatie is not the first transman to have carried a child to term and given birth. Many before him have done so outside of the public eye. Mr. Beatie is just the first to do so in such a public fashion.
What's 'so-called' about that?
Maybe it's in quotes because the author knows it isn't accurate - "he" is still a woman , hence these particular reproductive organs which carry and bear children !
There is a vast difference between having three children and having 20 children... and yes, having one baby a year is unhealthy (that is not a 'liberal' statement but rather a medical one).
The birth of a child should always be celebrated.