This "man" is clearly a woman to all intents and purposes. I mean, I could call myself a "dolphin" and have fins surgically attached to me, but it shouldn't then surprise me if I could still father a human child rather than a fish. ;-)
Why would he keep his vagina if he gender-identified as male? Moreover, why would he keep his ovaries, where estrogen is produced, and concurrently undergo testosterone injections?
Title is very misleading. She's a transgender and chose to carry their baby. She was born a woman and will always be a woman and that's how she got pregnant. Nothing spectacular or revolutionary here. Just because she chooses to identify herself as a man means nothing.
Man, I knew something was fishy. He's not a natural male, he was a female (not that there's anything wrong with that!). Show me a male, who was born a male, who wants to carry a baby, and that will be real news. The title is misleading... not that I fell for it... ergh.
you cannot change your sex, is it that hard to fugure out? If i were to declare that i am a wookie on paper doesnt that mean that i am? no! it means i am mentally ***** insane.
The title should read, "U.S. Woman pretending to be a Man Claims to be Pregnant -- National Post"
Heck the person pretending to be a Man still has a vagina. The very minimum definition of a "Man" is that you not have a vagina. Just because someone may get surgically altered to look like a dolphin, that someone is still a human being. (South Park Reference.)
I wish the couple and their baby happiness, but there's nothing extraordinary here.
It'd be pretty funny if it was all the usual liberals making all these ignorant comments about gender identity, obviously coming from ignorant conventional thinking, bias and outright prejudices.
Go take a Human Sexuality course. You're either young or stupid and shortsighted.
I don't understand how someone who wants to be thought of as a man can have a baby? Isn't that a step backwards? I think if you really want to be a man, you have to give up being a woman, and that means no getting pregnant. He's not a man or a woman at this point, and that's fine, but you can't expect people to consider you a man when you're not.
A man who has a vagina, a uterus, ovaries, one in tact fallopian tube and a natural clutch of eggs MAGICALLY is able to give birth.
I mean... sure, this MAN used to be a woman. But HE had surgery to remove HIS breasts! HE took some hormones that made hair grow on HIS face and HIS voice get deeper!
AMAZING! HE eliminated all HIS secondary sex characteristics, kept HIS primary sex characteristics, and then changed HIS name, and now gosh darnit, despite a legal title of male, HE is having a baby!
No. SHE just changed a few things and started calling HERSELF a man. That changes nothing... SHE can still get pregnant. Looks like we found a legal loophole in the gay marriage argument.
//not hatin', just sayin'! You can cover a turd in sprinkles, but that doesn't make it icecream.
I have been reading about this since way before it was on DIGG , its an interesting article. FTM's have to deal with alot and I feel for them. It would have been a very hard decision. I mean stop for a second and ask your self. At WHAT POINT does family mean more than gender identity? In the original article its mentioned that his partner can't get pregnant as she is infertile and has damaged ovaries. As she was unable to carry the child was originally planned. He decided to do the same. Ask yourself if you as a man (GENETIC OR NOT in a relationship with a woman found out your partner/wife/girlfriend couldnt have a child BUT YOU BOTH wanted one. Would you do the same? Think about that for a mintue before you answer.
Claiming to be a man, when you are CLEARLY still a woman, getting prego, and creating the news headline " US Man Claims to be Pregnant" is just false advertisement! way to get someone all interested and then let down....what a shame...