As I have a few trans friends, I've mulled this idea around a bit.
On the one hand, I'm kind of tickled by the thought of a guy being pregnant, even if it's a guy who started out as a girl. Most transpeople feel like they are the wrong gender since earliest childhood, anyway. I remember saying repeatedly as a child that I wished I was a boy and I hated girls, and I still *sort of* feel like that but I've no desire to take hormones and have surgery, however I actively support those who do. I think now at age 28 I identify more as soft butch female-to-third and I'm OK with that. (I will dress up on occasion but I have to be in the mood and right frame of mind to do so.) I wasn't OK with that when my mom was doing my hair for 2 hours and stuffing me into pink ruffly dresses. So, YMMV.
On the other hand, the whole issue is really complex, rather confusing, and I'm still scratching my head. I'm kind of irritated that Beatie was rejected 9 times by pre-natal doctors over moral objections, it offends the libertarian within me. But I don't know what to say about whether or not he can technically qualify as "male sex" after that nor is it my place to even say or not, I am not the Trans Police.
I just hope whatever happens, he is happy and the child has the best life possible. That has to be what counts, the quality of life involved, not whether or not it makes others comfortable.
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Date: 2008-04-06 12:13 am (UTC)On the one hand, I'm kind of tickled by the thought of a guy being pregnant, even if it's a guy who started out as a girl. Most transpeople feel like they are the wrong gender since earliest childhood, anyway. I remember saying repeatedly as a child that I wished I was a boy and I hated girls, and I still *sort of* feel like that but I've no desire to take hormones and have surgery, however I actively support those who do. I think now at age 28 I identify more as soft butch female-to-third and I'm OK with that. (I will dress up on occasion but I have to be in the mood and right frame of mind to do so.) I wasn't OK with that when my mom was doing my hair for 2 hours and stuffing me into pink ruffly dresses. So, YMMV.
On the other hand, the whole issue is really complex, rather confusing, and I'm still scratching my head. I'm kind of irritated that Beatie was rejected 9 times by pre-natal doctors over moral objections, it offends the libertarian within me. But I don't know what to say about whether or not he can technically qualify as "male sex" after that nor is it my place to even say or not, I am not the Trans Police.
I just hope whatever happens, he is happy and the child has the best life possible. That has to be what counts, the quality of life involved, not whether or not it makes others comfortable.