Pregnant Man on Oprah…. Right…
Today Thomas Beatie, the “pregnant man” is on the Oprah show today.
Only thing is, the pregnant man is only legally man. Biologically he isn’t. He is transgendered, born Tracy, a woman who still has all the reproductive parts necessary to produce a child.
The news reporting on this is really annoying. They keep saying he is the first pregnant man, but in reality he isn’t. Men don’t have babies, which is something the media is so quick to overlook. There is definite misrepresentation going on in all this hype.
Thomas may feel like a man, and legally be a man, but if he is having a child he is obviously not a man in the traditional sense. Men don’t have babies. The media needs to stop saying they do.
Here is a link to a New York Post article about the story.
Hmm, what do you think of all this?
5 comments
Quite! I don’t see any fuss being made of all the “women” out there who sport penises! Wanting to be a man, doesn’t make you one, especially when you have a bun in the oven…
hmmm. yeah, that is misrepresentation.
I totally agree with you. And I know it’s not politically correct, but I think it’s sick for any gender to try to appear to be the opposite gender. Yuck!
I so agree! and was having this same debate with someone earlier. its a woman….women haev babies. so what?
I don’t have any issues with how this man self-identifies, or even with how the law or society categorizes him. How the scientific community identifies him and how the media reports that does concern me. IMO, his remaining female parts conceived and will (possibly) give birth. If he squeezed one out of his penis, I’d give HIM credit, but otherwise…I just can’t accept that a man is giving birth.
Interesting topic, Mary!
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