…Bend “Pregnant Man” Debuts his baby in People Magazine. And apparently the family earned a cool $300,000 from People for exclusive picture rights (because “you don’t go on the cover of People magazine for free honey!”)
I’m sure (I guess, I hope) they’ll make good parents (despite their love for the spotlight), I just feel bad for the daughter and the therapy sessions she will probably need as she gets older.
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How stupid that media actual reports this female to be a “man”. This girl took some hormones to grow “manly” hair but didn’t quite want to go all the way so SHE kept HER reproductive organs. SHE got pregnant (something true gays can not do) then with her hairy body gave birth like a normal FEMALE does.
No matter what superficial changes SHE does to HERself SHE will always be a female – unless SHE can figure out some way to modify her genes.
My mom had to have a hysterectomy years ago and believe me – she was still a female all the way.
JustaDog, I’m with you 100%. And UB, I think your concerns for the child are well founded. What a joke.
Funny how JustaDog’s mom had a hysterectomy (as did mine) which means that the “pregnant man” has more internal “womanly” parts than our mothers!
What is wrong with this??
Apparently the law has to recognize us as whatever we decide we are. I will now be called “Jamal”- a tall African-American man. I have to go now, I’m headed to my NBA tryout.
yuck! thanks for the update Jake. what a joke. i’m going to call myself an alien and have a kid and charge some magazine a billion dollars for the rights to the alien baby picture.
As someone who’s Intersexed and/or Transsexual (many TS people also have IS conditions), I guess I have a different view. I’ll try to explain it.
Suppose you as a guy had been born with a female, or mostly female, body. It happens, and if you’re very lucky, it’s due to 5ARD or 17BHDD, your body will masculinise later, and you’ll have a normal adulthood even if a weird childhood and early adolescence. But that’s only 1 in 4.
You’d think the same as you do now. Your lymbic nucleus (base of the brain) would be the same, that’s what makes you M not F. This can be seen on fMRI scans. Your instincts, body language, emotions etc would be male, despite social conditioning.
But instead of being allowed to play baseball with the other boys, you’re “Daddy’s little girl” and expected to paint your nails. I’m told by guys who have been in this situation that it “blows goats and swallows”.
OK, so you have the courage to do something about it. The hormones work really well, your brain neurotransmitters go into balance, you start getting muscular and growing a beard. Except… you don’t have the right genitalia. Worse, the surgical techniques aren’t very good. You might get an inch, maybe 2, from hormones and reliable surgery. Anything more, and it’s $100,000 and a 30% success rate.
Most guys stick with what they can get with hormones.
So you meet a girl, she’s not concerned about the details (size *does* matter, but less than you think), you get married, the usual white picket fence stuff. She tries to get pregnant via donor IVF, as happens with other husbands who are sterile…and it goes wrong. She can’t have any kids.
But.. you do have the chance to be a biological father, or pretty close. It means going off the hormones that keep your brain in balance. It means taking real risks that you’ll go insane from post-partum psychosis, that happens to many women, so you’d be at risk.
But it is the only way you’re ever going to have a son, or a daughter.
After being refused medical treatment by a number of medics, you decide to go public, and suddenly, they don’t want the bad PR and you get help. It’s costly, and the money has to come from somewhere. It’s not as if you’re the first, or even the twentieth, to do this. There’s even a move, TransParent, about 19 guys who did the same thing.
And you know that by the time your child goes to school, the whole thing will have been forgotten. Today’s headlines line tomorrow’s birdcages. Can anyone here remember the name of the first child born due to IVF? Now *that* was a controversy.
I have some empathy – my situation was similar, but with reversed polarity. I’m my son’s biological father, which is extremely weird to think about. Biologically, I’m also more female than male, I’m Intersexed. It’s rare, but we exist. We only enter the limelight when we get persecuted, but unfortunately that’s quite often these days. Things are getting worse, not better. We no longer “fly under the radar” so have been forced to go public to a greater or lesser extent.
TS-101 is a good basic introduction to the subject. For the medical and scientific evidence, quotes from various papers giving the details, see BiGender and the Brain, which is a lot more technical.
“Journalists” (I put that word in quotes because it is People magazine…) are supposed to use the gender that people identify themselves with if they are transgendered.
http://www.glaad.org/media/guide/style.php
“Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics of the opposite sex or present themselves in a way that does not correspond with their sex at birth.”