Living John Irving novel The Pregnant Guy (aka Thomas Beatie) opened up to various publications about being the first "man" to spill forth with child. Diapers for transbabies cost money, yo.
"She's easygoing and mellow and intelligent," Formerly Pregnant Guy says about daughter Susan Juliette.
She's not gonna be easygoing when her friends start giving her shit about coming out of her Dad's vagina. Kids suck. Oh who cares, as long as everyone's happy?
Lil' Suzie was born on June 29, and she was 9 lbs. 5 oz.
"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," he says about the baby he conceived with his wife Nancy. "Just holding her is the best feeling in the world."
It's always good to be a trailblazer, and this is probably a triumph for transpeople. The common folk won't be understanding how this is achieved without a genetics course and several months of intensive counseling, though.
"She's easygoing and mellow and intelligent," Formerly Pregnant Guy says about daughter Susan Juliette.
She's not gonna be easygoing when her friends start giving her shit about coming out of her Dad's vagina. Kids suck. Oh who cares, as long as everyone's happy?
Lil' Suzie was born on June 29, and she was 9 lbs. 5 oz.
"She's so precious, I just can't stop staring at her," he says about the baby he conceived with his wife Nancy. "Just holding her is the best feeling in the world."
It's always good to be a trailblazer, and this is probably a triumph for transpeople. The common folk won't be understanding how this is achieved without a genetics course and several months of intensive counseling, though.
Photo Credit: Towleroad
Website: www.towleroad.com/2008/07/pregnant-trans.html
NunyaDangBizness says:
It's not a triumph, it's a travesty. Thomas Beatie is a woman. "He" is and always has been a "she". If 1,000 years from now someone dug up his bones, they'd identify the skeleton as that of a FEMALE. I don't care what gender she thinks she is, frankly. If I call myself a seagull and then go try to fly my stupid ass off the top of a building...yeah. THINKING you're a seagull doesn't make you one. THINKING you're a female doesn't make you one.
Thomas Beatie is simply a woman who gave birth. There's no miracle there, she's hardly the first WOMAN to give birth.
NAMBLA could be considered trailblazers as well, by your logic.
ella says:
Yeah... I feel sorry for that girl when she starts school. Kids are merciless. It's kind of a selfish thing that her parents did, you know? She's never going to be able to escape that.
kk says:
thank you!!! finally, someone with a brain - thomas still has OVARIES and a UTEROUS and since a person's sex is determined by what sexual organs they have, 'he' was never a 'pregnant man'... which is why i cannot understand the hype surrounding this story
DISGUSTED says:
HOW COULD PEOPLE STAND FOR THE ABUSE THIS CHILD IS BEING BROUGHT INTO? MENTALLY THIS POOR CHILD IS GOING TO BE SO ABUSED. I HOPE SOMEONE EXPLAINS TO HER THAT HER MOTHER WAS GAY AND WANTED TO DRESS UP LIKE A MAN. WHY DO YOU KEEP GIVING THIS SICK COUPLE PUBLICITY??? THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE DAMAGE THEY ARE DOING TO THIS POOR BABY GIRL, TO OUR SOCIETY, OR TO THEIR LOVED ONES.
DannyB says:
A "triumph for transpeople"? What was won? Who is transgendered?
Gimme a break! This is a total joke.
A woman gave birth and that's it, end of story.
tracy says:
Did all y'all out there in West Virginia finally learn how that internet thing works?!
Dear god, you people are all the most ridiculous, judgmental, closed-minded group I've seen in a while. I bet you're all "christians", right?
Go back to your bible, freaks.
tracy says:
Did all y'all out there in West Virginia finally learn how that internet thing works?!
Dear god, you people are all the most ridiculous, judgmental, closed-minded group I've seen in a while. I bet you're all "christians", right?
Go back to your bible, freaks.
NunyaDangBizness says:
Hey Tracy, put a sock it, hon. It's ironic how anyone who doesn't think like YOU are the close-minded ones. BTW, stereotyping the South or anywhere else just shows just how close-minded YOU are. Now toddle off, I'm sure you have some carpet to munch.
NunyaDangBizness says:
Hey Tracy, put a sock it, hon. It's ironic how anyone who doesn't think like YOU are the close-minded ones. BTW, stereotyping the South or anywhere else just shows just how close-minded YOU are. Now toddle off, I'm sure you have some carpet to munch.
piper says:
I tell you what; I would be a bible freak any day to be a screwed up wanna be homosapiens. Maxi Pad wearing b&*&*. Why would anyone want to take the innonence of a child and filter such distaste. This child deserves to know a father and mother.
Procreation isn't a choicecreation. Maybe that's why this world is going to hell in a nutshell. Selfish son of %*^^*&^. Gracing the cover as if she's a F*$$&%&% man. This kind of sh*^&*^ should be against the law.
Life is already complicated enough. I was outraged that Oprah would even host an hour long show about a man having a baby when she knew F%*^&*^ well she isn't a man. This type of media coverage only re-confirms her creditials. You may have money to filter this type of garbage. But I have enough sense to trash this filt. D E L E T E !!
piper says:
I tell you what; I would be a bible freak any day to be a screwed up wanna be homosapiens. Maxi Pad wearing b&*&*. Why would anyone want to take the innonence of a child and filter such distaste. This child deserves to know a father and mother.
Procreation isn't a choicecreation. Maybe that's why this world is going to hell in a nutshell. Selfish son of %*^^*&^. Gracing the cover as if she's a F*$$&%&% man. This kind of sh*^&*^ should be against the law.
Life is already complicated enough. I was outraged that Oprah would even host an hour long show about a man having a baby when she knew F%*^&*^ well she isn't a man. This type of media coverage only re-confirms her creditials. You may have money to filter this type of garbage. But I have enough sense to trash this filt. D E L E T E !!
piper says:
I tell you what; I would be a bible freak any day to be a screwed up wanna be homosapiens. Maxi Pad wearing b&*&*. Why would anyone want to take the innonence of a child and filter such distaste. This child deserves to know a father and mother.
Procreation isn't a choicecreation. Maybe that's why this world is going to hell in a nutshell. Selfish son of %*^^*&^. Gracing the cover as if she's a F*$$&%&% man. This kind of sh*^&*^ should be against the law.
Life is already complicated enough. I was outraged that Oprah would even host an hour long show about a man having a baby when she knew F%*^&*^ well she isn't a man. This type of media coverage only re-confirms her creditials. You may have money to filter this type of garbage. But I have enough sense to trash this filt. D E L E T E !!
tracy says:
Wow-NunyaDangBizness-hit a nerve much. And look at you with your big words, you used toddle as a verb!! And the Dang in your name-deep. Are you out of the 6th grade now?? Good for you!
You are all ridiculous hillbillies and you know it. Live and let live. I bet you wouldn't want to be judged. And if I did 'munch carpet' (as you so eloquently put), it has nothing to do with any of you or anyone else for that matter.
Now go on, that bible isn't going to misinterpret itself!
Rosa says:
Piper, preach girl, preach! I agree with you completely
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@ Tracy, b'cos you don't want to beleve in God and His Word, The Bible, does not make God and His Word false. Only morally corrupt people would approve of this freak show. Thank God for sane Christians.
It's sickening the way the Tabs and Oprah gave this confused moronic woman attention and touting "her" as "him", like the public are blind, deaf and dumb.
tracy says:
Not blind, deaf and dumb. Racist, prejudiced and judgmental.
And yes, thanks for you 'christians'-who would judge everyone without you!
omgg says:
OMG! this baby should call him DAD or MAMA? lol A hot debate is taking place at ~~~~~~Richromances.com now among hollywood writers and celebrities' fans. Many guys said they were super-excited about it~
Nunyadangbizness says:
Your only response is an ignorant critique on my verbage. I'm so sorry that these words are too difficult to handle for you; if I could find a picture I would, as it wouldn't tax your poor brain so much.
However, before you would like to call someone out for incorrect/improper grammar or spelling, perhaps you might like to peruse the definition below? Oh, sorry - "peruse" means to "read", there I go with those big words that hurt your poor head so bad.
toddle
Verb
[-dling, -dled]
1. to walk with short unsteady steps, like a young child
2. toddle off Jocular to depart: he toddled off to bed
Noun
the act or an instance of walking with short unsteady steps [origin unknown]
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
Nunyadangbizness says:
Your only response is an ignorant critique on my verbage. I'm so sorry that these words are too difficult to handle for you; if I could find a picture I would, as it wouldn't tax your poor brain so much.
However, before you would like to call someone out for incorrect/improper grammar or spelling, perhaps you might like to peruse the definition below? Oh, sorry - "peruse" means to "read", there I go with those big words that hurt your poor head so bad.
toddle
Verb
[-dling, -dled]
1. to walk with short unsteady steps, like a young child
2. toddle off Jocular to depart: he toddled off to bed
Noun
the act or an instance of walking with short unsteady steps [origin unknown]
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
tracy says:
oh, you are a clever one, aren't you. maybe i underestimated you, maybe it was the 8th grade that you just finished!
the fact that you really don't get my response only further proves how ignorant you really are. I could go back and forth all night, but unlike you, i have a life to get back to. tata!
Rhonda says:
There is no miracle here & it makes me sick because now there will be a little girl out there gettting mixed messages about who she is. This person is not a man, she is a woman who wants to be a man. I can't stand the commercials on tv advertising her and saying a man has gives birth. They should say a woman who wants to be a man had a baby.
Nunyadangbizness says:
No, dear heart, it is YOU that doesn't get the responses. My first response to you stated that I found it ironic that YOU are accusing anyone of being close-minded, yet anyone who doesn't agree with YOUR point of view is therefore close-minded, ignorant, hillbilly, etc. It's basically "Look at me, I accept everything and everybody, except anyone who thinks or feels differently than I do". Hypocrite much? Or does that word have too many letters for you as well? I know any more than 3 probably makes you break a sweat.
Now, since you can't come up with an intelligent response, instead you choose to play guessing games as to "what grade I finished". You can't come up with a legitimate response, argument, or rebuttal, so you regress to immature insults (ineffective ones, I might add).
Oh, but I guess I'm just talking to the wall, right? Because like you said, you have a life to get back to and all. And no, you can't go back and forth all night - tonight is a school night and you should really get some rest - being an angsty teenage bitch must be exhausting.
Patrick says:
I believe everyone has the right to live their life in peace without fear of religious and/or political persecution. That said, I do not agree with anyone claiming to be something they are not. I'm sorry, but just because you feel like a male doesn't make you a male; and just because you feel like a woman doesn't make you a woman. Lets not try to take everything in the Grey zone. Anatomically, if you have a penis and testes you are than a male. Thomas Beatie, you are not a man, a guy, or a male. You are a female who has surgically removed her breasts and is living as a man. You have a uterus and ovaries--I know this because you were able to give birth--that, I am sorry if it offends you, makes you a woman.
I am sure you are taking medication to increase you testosterone level which helps you appear more male. But please, for the sake of your child and the future children, be honest with yourself and admit the obvious. You are a woman who has chosen to surgically and medicinally alter you physical appearance to live as a man. Then you have this bright idea to be the one in a lesbian relationship to carry a child. That is your business; but when you invited the media into your life with headlines claiming to be the first man to give birth, you invited the rest of the world in too.
I hope you, your child, and your significant other well. But the news media is ignorant and print anything that will draw veiwers, listeners, and advertisers to them like a child throwing him or herself down on the floor for attention.
The headlines should read, "Thomas Beatie, a Woman Living as a Man gives birth to her first child."