Posted on 03/29/2008 11:00:11 AM PDT by presidio9
A pregnant Oregon man who sports a beard with his baby bump insists he is "perfectly capable" of giving birth despite years of hormone treatments to make him a male.
"I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child," Thomas Beatie, 34, told Oprah Winfrey for a show airing next Thursday.
Beatie made worldwide headlines after announcing his extraordinary pregnancy in The Advocate magazine - and posing topless to show off his bulging belly, pancake bosom and mounds of armpit hair.
"Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor a female desire, but a human desire," he wrote in the April 8 issue of the magazine, geared toward gays, lesbians and transgender people.
Beatie legally became a man after undergoing a sex-change operation, but he kept his female reproductive organs.
In order to conceive, he said, he stopped taking his twice-weekly testosterone injections and started getting his period after an eight-year hiatus.
He used a sperm donor to get pregnant and did not require fertility treatments.
The macho mama, who is due this summer, said he decided to carry the baby because his wife, Nancy Richards, couldn't conceive.
"Who hires a surrogate if they are perfectly capable of carrying their own child?" he said in an interview for next week's People magazine, portions of which were released yesterday.
Beatie acknowledges he and his wife are in uncharted territory and that much of the reaction has been negative.
"Health-care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive," he wrote.
When he suffered an ectopic pregnancy in his initial attempt at conception, his brother told him it was probably
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.....because his wife, Nancy Richards, couldn’t conceive. ....
How does he know that?
My guess is she’s on the pill and running around on her.
Now that IS a good point, but this will most certainly be done as a C-section.
Don’t they sew those things on? I wonder if they’re plastic....
I just got back from eating out and appear about 7 months along right now.
what, I wonder, will all those hormones do the child that this demented woman is carrying?
No, she didn’t become a man. She is genetically female with her reproductive organs intact.
She’s a woman who has had massive amounts of hormones, breast amputation, and needs mental help.
I thought this GIRL didn’t go through the entire sex change, I thought she still has her “girl parts”...ALL of them, just did the hormone thing.
“Beatie legally became a man after undergoing a sex-change operation, but he kept his female reproductive organs.
In order to conceive, he said, he stopped taking his twice-weekly testosterone injections and started getting his period after an eight-year hiatus.
He used a sperm donor to get pregnant and did not require fertility treatments. “
This is no different than someone thinking they are a cat, and having surgery to have a tail and cat ears added.
This “thing” is not a man. “It” is a woman who mutilated her body out of self hatred most likely.
It’s NOT a man—it’s one of those transgender people who only went through half the process of changing over ‘to the other team’...in other words, half man, half woman—totally confused!
Does that really matter? If she/he wants to have a baby, no matter WHAT happens to this poor child, then to heck with the baby! They have no problem ripping the unborn apart limb from limb so this really isn’t too big a suprise. Gross....yes!
Guess that’s what happens when a woman gets an addadicktome.
This is no man, this is a woman who has spent yrs on hormone treatments trying to become a man, now “it” is trying to revert to a being a woman.
This is the sort of crap that the taxpayer will have to pony up for if the Dhimmis win in Nov, it’s totally sick, these folks have mental illnesses.
I am so sick of this culture of narcissistic sensationalism in which people strive to outdo each other’s ability to be bizarre. They care not a whit for the impact on anyone else, or the distraction from things of actual importance or merit.
They are 4-year-olds all screaming “watch me, mommy, watch me, mommy, WAAAAATCH MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”.
I’ve heard the phrase ‘baby bump’ since I was a kid, and that’s about 35+ years ago! (speaking as a mom-to-be with 2 baby bumps at this time!) ;-)
I think when you see the tabloids using the phrase it just seems more ‘trashy’, but personally I don’t find anything offensive about the description itself. There IS a bump when the baby/ies start showing! ;-)
Ah ha! I was wondering what the “catch” was here. This isn’t a pregnant man - it’s a pregnant woman masquerading as a man.
Am I a bigot or what?
Typical heterosexual bigot.
She doesn't have a penis. Below the belt, she's all woman. Why they continues calling this female a "he" is mystifying.
No "man" is giving birth in this story.
Such abomination. I can’t help but think of the poor unborn child who is being used as a tool of perversion.
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