Comments on: Thomas Beatie is Pregnant Again

By: Susan Huffer

Susan Huffer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:58:57 +0000

I would like to personally say to Thomas Beatie and his wife that I think it is wonderful they have been able to have their own child! BRAVO!!! What difference does it make whether a male or a female give birth to a child? My husband and I were not able to have a child, so we adopted.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:13:11 +0000

What Gina said.

When a real man gets pregnant, that will be news. This is just sensationalism.

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:34:47 +0000

“He” is a man only due to hormone therapy and surgery. “He” is not a pregnant “man”, IMO.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:59:36 +0000

You mean I can be whatever gender I say I want to be? In that case I can be whatever species I want to be as well right? I’m a hermaphrodite tiger….ggrrrrowwww!!!

By: zjojor

zjojor — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:55:53 +0000

I guess he/she wanted to have his/her cake and eat it too. People are just never satisfied. I wonder what his/her child or children will call him/her? “mom/ dad”?

By: Kadi

Kadi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:20:26 +0000

If the human wants to be a man, then why does this human insist on bearing children. That is a woman’s job, plain and simple.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:23:01 +0000

I personally think the whole situation is a tad ridiculous. I understand, accept, and support a person who feels he or she was born into the wrong body, but that implies that person does not want the things that come with being his or her original gender. For a woman, this means pregnancy.
Her argument (I will not call a person with a uterus a man) that it is not a male or female desire to have a biological child is valid, but that, in my mind, doesn’t apply to having that biological child growing inside of you. That, to me, is a very female desire, which means that she is still thinking like a woman.
I don’t claim to know what she is thinking and feeling. I don’t know what it’s like to want to be a man, so I can’t say that I’m right or wrong, but these are my thoughts on the subject.

By: Marijke

Marijke — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:13:30 +0000

Gender and sex aren’t the same thing. Thomas’ sex is MALE and males cannot give birth.

By: CRG

CRG — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:53:24 +0000

I’m rather offended by your comment that a real man can’t have a baby.

People are whatever gender they say they are.

Maybe you meant that a person born biologically as a man cannot have a baby. I think that’s probably what you meant.