I don't think it's wrong that this person decided she was a man and decided to live as one. That's cool. I'm all for human rights and everyone being allowed to be who they are without discrimination....but come on make a choice and stick with it though. If you're a man then be a man. Men don't carry children. It's not convenient to be a man so now you're a woman again? That's just confusing to everyone and seems extremely selfish. This couple is only thinking of getting what they want and not what they will do to the child they're bringing into the world.
IMO debate on the ethics and gender choices of the adults take second place to ensuring this little girl is delivered safely and the birthing parent is given unbiased medical attention. I get pissed off when I hear of health care workers making judgments about the morals and beliefs of people and then refusing them assistance.
Having said that, I am uneasy about the life prospects of the child. It's not that I think the parents will be unfit. The chances are they will be better parents than most "normal" couples. I just have the feeling that considering how hard it is for adults to come to terms with the complexities of the parental relationship, it could be moreso for the child. Then again, she may just accept her family as their kind of normal and not have a problem at all.
But DAMN, talk about shades of gray. It's like a film-noir black and white movie script.
Well, I confess when I first realised it was a transgender person I was a little disappointed, I though science had finally found a way to make men suffer as we women have had to :P Then I was a little, teeny bit uncomfortable with the idea. And I certainly want to know what kind of birth they have planned! And then when I got to how the 'health professionals' treated them... by that point I was outraged and decided fuck it, he's pregnant, he made the decision to be a man and still wants to be a man but this is the only way they can have a baby, get over it people! What we can accept that people want to have different sexual organs, we can accept that some people want to dress differently to the way society says they should, but can't accept that a man wants to have a baby? Bollocks to that.
I must say I went through exactly what you went through reading that story. I was really upset when his brother said something about the babies he lost being monsters. Poor fella. I think its odd. And if it were someone I knew, I probably would have a bit of an issue with it but if they're good parents, more power to them. I hope they raise their child to accept the differences that seem to be part of our ever-changing world. Its a wee bit strange though. But if its something that's going to happen once, I'm sure it'll start a "trend" and the next thing you know Hollywood will be doing it. And can you imagine the Lifetime movie that would be made? :/
First off, the link is unavailable right now so I don't know what's up with that, service interruption or the story taken down? Whatevs. We were talking about this last night and we were all suspect - having a hysterectomy would be part of the gender reassignment surgery/legal process in order for him to be legally a male in order to avoid exactly this situation, wouldn't it?
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Having said that, I am uneasy about the life prospects of the child. It's not that I think the parents will be unfit. The chances are they will be better parents than most "normal" couples. I just have the feeling that considering how hard it is for adults to come to terms with the complexities of the parental relationship, it could be moreso for the child. Then again, she may just accept her family as their kind of normal and not have a problem at all.
But DAMN, talk about shades of gray. It's like a film-noir black and white movie script.
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Then I was a little, teeny bit uncomfortable with the idea. And I certainly want to know what kind of birth they have planned!
And then when I got to how the 'health professionals' treated them... by that point I was outraged and decided fuck it, he's pregnant, he made the decision to be a man and still wants to be a man but this is the only way they can have a baby, get over it people!
What we can accept that people want to have different sexual organs, we can accept that some people want to dress differently to the way society says they should, but can't accept that a man wants to have a baby? Bollocks to that.
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