Oprah Interviews Pregnant Man
…Didn’t Arnold Schwarzenegger make a movie about this??
The world’s first pregnant man sat down with the queen of talk Oprah Winfrey yesterday. Thomas Beatie, who was born a female and had underwent gender reassignment surgery, began taking testosterone treatments and had breast surgery to remove glands and flatten his chest, and his wife Nancy appeared on the show and Beatie defended his decision to carry the couple’s child when they found out Nancy was unable to conceive. Beatie opted to keep his reproduction organs and was artificially inseminated.
“I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am,” said Beatie.
[Um....yes it kind of does. It generally — generally — means you're a woman, Tommy. But that's just me, I'm old-fashioned like that.]
“It’s not a male or female desire to want to have a child, it’s a human desire,” he continued.
[May be true, but while men may desire to have children, find me one who desires to actually give birth. Other than yourself.]
“I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”
[Please, find me that article in the Constitution.]
But, to each his own, I guess. Gotta love America!
April 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I must argue with you a little on this…but don’t let the fact that I’m not saying this aloud make me seem angry…I’m not!
He didn’t actually receive gender re-assignment surgery…that would have involved the removal of his reproductive organs. Rather, he chose to have breast augmentation and take testosterone.
And as for the biological child statement…I believe he was making the point that a man or woman has the right to a biological child…as in they have the right to have the child be part of its blood/dna lineage. He was defending the fact that they didn’t choose to adopt, and instead decided to conceive his biological child (since the wife could no longer bear biological children) and that he had a right to do so because any human beings containing their reproductive organs have a right to.
I agree that this occurrence is definately odd…but I think Thomas and Nancy are wonderful spokespeople for what they are doing. No intention to offend or rock the world…they just wanted their own baby.
April 4th, 2008 at 8:51 am
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