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Adventures in Transgender Fertility (NYT alert)
New York Times ^ | April 24, 2018 | Joanne Spataro

Posted on 04/25/2018 6:15:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1

Over the last several months, I’ve spent evenings watching my fiancée, Lara, inject herself with smaller and smaller doses of estrogen. I’ve watched her stand in front of a mirror, singeing each hair out of her face with a secondhand electrolysis machine.

The return of her testosterone hasn’t resulted in just the resurgence of facial hair; her pants now fit differently, too. My own skin has been plagued by acne since I got off the pill six months ago, and my default states are angry, hungry or sleeping. Such are the perils of trying to have a child the way Lara and I are trying, without in vitro fertilization, or cryogenically frozen sperm. The way fertile cisgender people do: They simply couple up, and boom — a child is born.

For many young trans people, the question of having babies is likely the last thing on their minds. Who could blame them? Like all young people, they’re figuring out their future, and matters of diapers and breast-feeding seem abstract and far off. But unlike all young people, young trans people are often making choices that have long-term consequences for their fertility. Which is part of how I, a 32-year-old cisgender lesbian, and Lara, my 33-year-old trans fiancée, came to be in the situation we’re in today: trying to conceive a child, even though Lara transitioned nearly four years ago.

I didn’t even realize I wanted biological kids until my mid-20s. Before then, I’d vaguely imagined that children would simply come to me, à la Auntie Mame, or Diane Keaton in “Baby Boom”: I’d inherit them from a long-lost relative and simply slot them into my independent, modern life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; joannespataro; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; trannies; transgender
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The NYT and the Democrats are getting ever crazier.

She may be able to conceive with "Lara" because he is a *man* who has not yet had his gonads chopped off and has stopped dosing himself with female hormones.

1 posted on 04/25/2018 6:15:41 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

Jump off very high buildings, please.


2 posted on 04/25/2018 6:17:34 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Criminals at F.B.I., Justice Dept, I.R.S and No one taken out in cuffs? Federal gub mint is crappola)
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To: reaganaut1

Feel sorry for the kid


3 posted on 04/25/2018 6:18:41 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (The jolly, candy-like button!)
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To: Joe Boucher
"Jump off very high buildings, please."

No, we should hope that the mentally ill get better, not that they kill themselves.

4 posted on 04/25/2018 6:20:24 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

These mentally ill freaks have no business being around anyone’s children and that includes their own.


5 posted on 04/25/2018 6:20:42 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: reaganaut1

more proof that the sex change people are mentally ill,


6 posted on 04/25/2018 6:21:39 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: reaganaut1

We pray every day that the Lord will return quickly and end the insanity of this godless generation.


7 posted on 04/25/2018 6:22:41 AM PDT by txrefugee
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8 posted on 04/25/2018 6:24:08 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: reaganaut1

The whole situation betrays how much “transgender” (1) is not a “transitioning” at all, but a medically manipulated & sustained pretense, and (2) it’s basis is a mental problem, a runaway obsession that has been allowed to take hold to the point of a conviction that what is real and natural is “wrong”.

Sympathy they do deserve, but “acceptance” that their erroneous obsession is “right” is wrong.


9 posted on 04/25/2018 6:27:40 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: reaganaut1

This piece is so vomit-inducing, I almost can’t read past the first disgusting paragraph.


10 posted on 04/25/2018 6:32:54 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: \/\/ayne

Hum..........


11 posted on 04/25/2018 6:39:35 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: reaganaut1
I just don't know about some people.
12 posted on 04/25/2018 6:41:35 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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Romans 1:

24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural,

27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

13 posted on 04/25/2018 6:43:05 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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I am always lost with this psychobabble crap. Is one of these people actually a male or not! If so which one?


14 posted on 04/25/2018 6:44:37 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Feel sorry for the kid

He or she will be dragged around and put on display like an accessory, because that is all they are to these heartless freaks.

15 posted on 04/25/2018 6:45:05 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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What an utter display of twisted deviant chatter! Useless garble! No doubt they’re on a collison course.


16 posted on 04/25/2018 6:46:34 AM PDT by caww
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To: txrefugee

If they kept their perversion to themselves and didn’t involve innocents in their delusions, we could almost ignore it and “live and let live.” But when they INSIST on involving the more vulnerable members of humanity in their sick fantasies, it cannot be far from the end of the Age.


17 posted on 04/25/2018 6:47:54 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: 48th SPS Crusader
I am always lost with this psychobabble crap. Is one of these people actually a male or not! If so which one?

"Lara" is a man, and after a few months of not dosing himself with estrogen, he may be able to impregnate his girlfriend, the author.

18 posted on 04/25/2018 6:52:12 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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There is no such thing as transgender. Its fiance is a he. Lara isn’t Lara. It’s Larry. Larry didn’t transition because no one can change his/her sex. “biological” in front of “kids” is redundant.
Truth: A lesbian woman has been living with a man who still has his dicque, but hasn’t been using it. They decided to dust off that old dicque and use it for its original purpose, in other words, to try sex the normal way, as much as you can call this whole setup normal.
These people should be in padded cells, not celebrated in the Rag of Record.


19 posted on 04/25/2018 6:52:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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So, as best as I can figure this out:

1. Partner one is a female lesbian ...

2. Partner two is a transgender-female (in other words, a male) ...

So, how is Partner one actually a lesbian? Simply because Partner two wants to look like a woman? Whatever she wants to call Partner two, she's with a he. Isn't that a "normal" woman?

Simply because I carry my cat around in a pillowcase doesn't make her a pillow ...

20 posted on 04/25/2018 6:53:55 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Come Hell or High Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNUp9rgjNs&feature=youtu.be)
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