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Pregnant Man is Pregnant Again
Categories: Just For Dads, Pregnancy & Birth, Bump Watch, In The News
Remember that guy who had a baby earlier this year? Well, he and his wife Nancy are having another!Thomas Beatie is a transgender - he was born a woman but after undergoing gender reassignment surgery, he is legally considered a male. He elected to retain his reproductive organs and because of that, was able to get pregnant with the help of a sperm donor. In June, he gave birth to his daughter Susan.
Despite all the negative attention Beatie's situation has brought upon him and his family, he is anxious to do it again. He tells Barbra Walters of ABC News that he deliberately stayed away from the male hormones after giving birth so that he could conceive again. "I had my checkups with my hormone level... everything is right on track," he said. The baby is due in June.
Thomas Beatie not only knows the joy of childbirth, he also knows the pain of loss. Before his successful pregnancy with Susan, he had become pregnant with triplets. That pregnancy had to be terminated because it was ectopic. Here's to a happy and healthy pregnancy this go around.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Sarah 11-15-2008 @ 3:19PM
I find this very sad and disturbing for several reasons. First of all, this pregnant "man" isn't a man at all. Look at the DNA and the biology--on that level, you are whatever you were born as forever. Second of all, I feel this devalues the family so much. What does it teach our children?
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Uly 11-15-2008 @ 3:47PM
I don't know. What *does* it teach the children? I mean, surely it doesn't teach them that children are so valuable that people will go to great lengths to have them! Surely it doesn't teach them that two people who love each other can share their love with children as well!
Oh wait....
nevermind.
By the way, if your family is devalued by what *other* people choose to do with *their* families? That's YOUR problem.
Shay 11-22-2008 @ 3:22PM
How is this any different than people teaching their children to be happy with themselves while paying millions of dollars for plastic surgery? If family values are being distorted, what do people teach when they get divorces? What do they teach when they judge others? Before deciding another person's fitness to raise or bring a child into this world, think of what they have to offer, not whether it fits traditional norms. The only thing that truly matters is that the Beatie's raise their children in a loving, nurturing, and tolerant environment.
Derek 11-15-2008 @ 3:27PM
Look! It's a bird... no a plane... no!!! its transgender, sexual organ re-assignment man/woman/man... woman... man err uhh it?!
I'm sure this person is nice and all, but just because you paint a cow black doesn't make it a horse.
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gojennings 11-15-2008 @ 3:55PM
I try to be openminded and all that, but if this individual wants to be a man, then be a man. Give up the incubating, dude(ette).
But best of luck anyway. Live and let live, I guess.
LJ at http://gojennings.tumblr.com
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Uly 11-15-2008 @ 6:41PM
Because gender binary systems are totally binding on everybody.
Why shouldn't he have kids however he likes if he can?
Kirstie 11-15-2008 @ 4:25PM
Actually, he's legally considered a "man", not a "male". Gender and sex are different, legally - he can be of the male gender, fine, but as he still possesses female sex organs, he's still female.
I have no issues with him wanting to be a man. If that makes you happy, that's fine and I'm happy FOR you - but I question the desire to give birth and retain a vagina and uterus. That's pretty much the pinnacle of being female, from a physiological standpoint, anyway. If you so badly desire to be a man, why are you choosing to keep those organs you say you don't connect with and don't want? I feel like a lot of it is the publicity angle, especially with baby number two.
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Carol 11-16-2008 @ 6:24PM
This is sick and twisted. Children should not have to be abused in this nature. Its not about love because when you love you think of others and how they might feel. Children need stability and there is nothing stable about a woman who wants to be a man who gets pregnant. There should be a law against someone putting children in the middle of their insanity and calling it live and let live. Children are human too should they not be able to live a normal life. Its hard enough having normal parents OMG and dealing with life as a child. No love in this its two insane people making pregnancy and children and family a joke.
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Tina L.indsey 11-15-2008 @ 9:07PM
People, Leave the guy/girl alone. God made us what we are today.The only one that juges us is God. People need to go back and read there Bibles.Who made us?God. Adam and Eve had kids, so how did there kids have kids, Stop and think about it people.WE all come from them. White,Black,Brown,Man with Man, Woman with Woman, Woman with Man. Who do people think they are to juige anyone? Those people need to take a good look at there selves. God Bless, Have a nother healthy baby. Dont listen to what other people think. Listen to your heart. Remember, Gods the one that made what we are. Tina L.
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pbhj 11-15-2008 @ 10:34PM
Don't suppose you've ever heard of something called "the fall". It's the sin of mankind that separates us from the ideal that God created us to be ...
God says "remove first the plank in your own eye", but he doesn't say then that we shouldn't do anything about the speck in someone elses. He says "he without sin should throw the first stone" but he goes on to tell the woman to "sin no more".
God certainly didn't make this woman what she is - that was a lot of psychological issues with some pretty major surgery heaped on top.
Tina L.indsey 11-16-2008 @ 8:30AM
Like i said before. God the one that made us.There might be a man trapped in a womans body, there might be a woman trapped in a mans body. Everyone knows who they really are. Not for you or anyone else to juige. Theres only (ONE) that juiges us. Or have some people forgot. Let me say it again ( GOD). Jesus died for our sins........I dont see people running around here with haylos on ther heads or wings on there backs. Everyone sin once in a while in there life time. Adam and Eves kids did, or we wouldnt be here. Tina L.
Mamacita 11-15-2008 @ 9:05PM
I have no problem with this person reproducing, and even if I did, it would STILL be none of my business.
I do have a problem with the media referring to him as a man, but again, none of my business. It attracts attention and sells papers.
She/she'll have some 'splainin' to do to the children in a few years, though. Heh.
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Jenni 11-15-2008 @ 9:48PM
It's not some great big miraculous thing when a person who has female reproduction parts and no penis gets pregnant. It happens daily all over the world. Just because you have facial hair and live your life as if you where a man, doesn't make you such.
This isn't a man having a baby. If he/she had a penis and male parts, I might be more impressed.
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ninainindia 11-15-2008 @ 10:35PM
There is nothing special or miraculous about this person being pregnant. I don't mind her being pregnant but she shouldn't be so media seeking, I really hate that.
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JHZ 11-16-2008 @ 6:40AM
It drives me crazy when the media refers to this person as a pregnant man...there are NO male reproductive organs, only FEMALE ones...she was born with (and kept) all her female plumbing, and that is how she is able to become pregnant and give birth. Maybe legally she has obtained the label of "male", but physically speaking, this is not a pregnant man, this is a very hairy pregnant woman.
I am not going to even touch on whether or not this is morally right, wrong, etc...if she is happier living with her body looking this way, fine, but she should NOT be labeled as some sort of "scientific wonder"...again, this is a pregnant woman, not a man.
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Jo 11-16-2008 @ 6:47AM
Tina L., you say, "God made us what we are today", and "God is the one that made us what we are"...exactly...God made this person a WOMAN, not a man. There is no scientific miracle here, she was born a woman, and thus had the female plumbing to get pregnant...hormones and surgery were used to try to make her a man, NOT God.
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Tina L.indsey 11-16-2008 @ 9:04AM
Like i said, a man trapped in a womans body, or a woman trapped in a mans body. Yes , God made us. People dont know what they are felling. Utill they walk in there shoes.
BJ 11-18-2008 @ 10:07PM
The last I heard, God does not make mistakes. When God creates a male, the person is male. When God creates a female, the person is female. The mistake is in the mind of the person changing God's creation. As for judging that person, I cannot. God still reigns on His throne. As Christians, our duty is to love the person; not the actions. Our duty is to gently remind them of God's saving Grace, Jesus' ultimate sacrifice, and the forgiveness that follows acceptance of this wonderful gift.
Abdel-Massieh 11-20-2008 @ 4:13PM
I agree with JHZ and JO cocerning all what they said . That human being is NOT a man.It's a woman that tried to be a man . I really feel disgusted .
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Crystal 11-16-2008 @ 9:18PM
I wont pretend to know what is going on in this PERSON's mind. I dont know what this PERSON is thinking or feeling. I dont know why they feel the way they do about the body that they were born into.
And you know what? I DONT CARE.
What I do know, is that this PERSON went through hell to get a baby. This baby is one more child in this world that is cared for and loved.
There isnt anything, in my book, wrong with that.
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