mom and dad in one
having been a scientist myself once upon a time, i am all for advances in medical and scientific research. i appreciate the extent of drug treatments available today for all sort of maladies for which, some decades ago there were no available treatment. i get excited and am hopeful whenever i come across discoveries, big or small, that have the potential to improve the quality of our lives. but this news stumps me: a woman-turned-man getting pregnant.
According to the story, Mr. Beatie was born a woman but decided to become a transgender male and legally changed his sex to male. He had his breasts surgically removed and started bimonthly testosterone injections, but kept his vagina.
Now identifying as male, Mr. Beatie legally married Nancy Beatie, the story says. The pair wanted a biological baby but Ms. Beatie was unable to carry a child. So they decided Mr. Beatie would carry the child.
“How does it feel to be a pregnant man,” Mr. Beatie writes in the article. “Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child … I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.”
what is the world coming to?
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2 Responses to “mom and dad in one”
March 29th, 2008 at
my comment to her (or him..?) “make up your mind, girl!”
yeah, what is this world coming to? tsk.
March 30th, 2008 at
have you watched the movie “junior” of arnold schwarzenegger and danny devito?—scary pero nowadays, we only have to watch comedy movies then wait for it to get real–ngiii!