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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This ain’t a man. This is a mutilated female with profound and disturbing psychological problems.
>>>Typical heterosexual bigot.<<<
We’re going to have a rally for our cause. All of us heterosexual bigots are gathering to protest for our rights. We even have a chant, which I will share:
“What do we have?”
“A penis!”
“Where do we want it?”
Well, you can fill in the rest. LOL
That's a pet peeve of my wife and me, too. It started with British tabloids, who are always coming up with annoying new euphemisms, like calling Madonna "Madge" (like the manicurist on the old commericals -- Madonna's done a lot of creepy things, but I don't recall her ever soaking anyone's hands in dishwashing liquid). Now, they've given us "baby bump," and we are to the point of screaming every time we hear that obnoxious, cutesy-poo term.
Who is going to breastfeed the little tyke? EEEeewwww
She is NOT A MAN. Its a mentally ill, surgically mutilated woman. If they grafted eagle wings on her back would she be a bird?
...I see your ewwwww and raise you 10 fold!!!!
She supposedly started menstruating after an 8-yr. suspension. Before she got pregnant, what did she do for feminine protection? I can’t imagine a man dealing with -excuse me for saying this - a bleeding penis.
This is Mr/Miss Beatty...he/she is positively glowing.
NOT A POP NO MATTER OW MUCH THE PC MEDIA CALLS HER SO...!
Probably nothing, seeing as Beatie stopped taking the hormones. So, we have a person who is genetically female, anatomically female and biochemically female, but has a flat chest and hairy armpits.
If that makes Beatie a male, doesn't that mean 99% of the city of Berkeley is male?
Does that make her partner Nancy gay?
I would assume it to “elevate” her to lesbian status. Now they can both be a proud member of DU!!!!
"[hrallllllph!!!] I think I'm gonna be sick."
"Naw, dude! You're gonna be a mom."
She is not a "man". Why does the media insist on calling someone what they want to be called?
Then she is legally a woman. Period.
This is sssooo wrong. If he/she/it wants to change gender, then fine, but don’t turn around and decide you want to be what you were originally because it affords you other benefits.
Hopefully her hormone treatments will not be damaging to the baby
Don’t believe it for a second.
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