At first we were going to file this Reuters headline under "News of the
Oxymoronic": "Pregnant Man Tells Oprah: It's a Miracle." But then we read
the
article:
A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an
interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he
always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.
"It's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's
a human desire," a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. "I
have a very stable male identity," he added, saying that
pregnancy neither defines him nor makes him feel feminine.
The key to understand all this is that mysterious adjective _transgender_.
Reuters explains:
Beatie, 34, who lives in Oregon, was born a woman but
decided to become a man 10 years ago. He began taking
testosterone treatments and had breast surgery to remove
glands and flatten his chest.
"I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs
because I wanted to have a child one day," he told the talk
show host. Beatie's wife Nancy said she inseminated him with
a syringe using sperm purchased from a bank.
In other words, it is a legal and medical fiction to call Thomas Beatie a
man.
In reality, she is a woman. And for a woman of childbearing age to become
pregnant when inseminated is not exactly a miracle.
Unless, of course, EVERY pregnancy is a miracle. This whole "transgender"
rigmarole looks suspiciously like another effort by antichoice extremists
to
impose their religion on the rest of us.
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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