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A pregnant...man?

http://www.wmconnect.com/whatsnew/de...=20080404-1307

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eh.
Thought it was interesting.

Is it technically a pregnant man when he's a transgender? It's not as if they had modified his internal organs.

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Originally Posted by Warumono

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That's a first. [/COLOR]

<insert obligatory person who links to a guy that did it before your guy, all smug like>

And well...AOL sign in page. Ew.

The only reason this is even in the news is because they can draw people in with the "MAN GETS PREGNANT" misleading statement/lie.

Do we have an alternate page with this? I am not signing up to AOL just for this.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=262979 (not linking directly to the article because I haven't really messed up with that site and I don't know if it has anything against the rules)

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To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.

I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.

Ten years ago, when Nancy and I became a couple, the idea of us having a child was more dream than plan. I always wanted to have children. However, due to severe endometriosis 20 years ago, Nancy had to undergo a hysterectomy and is unable to carry a child. But after the success of our custom screen-printing business and a move from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest two years ago, the timing finally seemed right. I stopped taking my bimonthly testosterone injections. It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle, so this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months, and I didn’t have to take any exogenous estrogen, progesterone, or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy.....

In total, nine different doctors have been involved. This is why it took over one year to get access to a cryogenic sperm bank to purchase anonymous donor vials, and why Nancy and I eventually resorted to home insemination. ...

On successfully getting pregnant a second time, we are proud to announce that this pregnancy is free of complications and our baby girl has a clean bill of health. We are happily awaiting her birth, with an estimated due date of July 3, 2008.

How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child—I am so lucky to have such a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.

There's supposedly this asian guy in New York or something that's pregnant too. And he's all Zen-like and everything.

Really, it's like male pregnancy is the new hot thing, every(male)body and their brother is doing it.

I'm not sure what the shocker is about this. The person in question is physically a woman. Born a woman, XX chomosone, all that. She had plastic surgery to remove her breasts, had hormone treatments to supress the estrogen and use testosterone, started living like as man, and got legally recognized as such.

But he still still has a fully funcitoning female reporductive system, so all that was needed was to stop the hormone treatments, and get some donated sperm.

It's interesting that this is as accepted as it is, a sign of where are culture is at the moment, but it's not a physical oddity.

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Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.

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Anyway, this a bit odd. I guess this guy should have taken more testorone if he got all excited about himself having a kid. I mean, he's got a perfectly good wife right there.

I think I just got AOLrolled...

Anyway, in every biological sense of the situation, that person is still female. Not really confusing, but from a social perspective it's kind of weird.