There has been a flurry of attention in recent weeks over the revelation that a female-to-male transgender (that is, a person born female who now self-identifies as “male”) is currently pregnant. Although she had her breasts removed and took male hormones (which allowed her to grow a beard), this woman chose not to have her sexual organs altered as part of her “transition” to “manhood.” Still possessed of a uterus, this individual has now become pregnant by artificial insemination. Both as the butt of jokes and as a pop culture phenomenon (as certified by an appearance on Oprah), this person has been widely referred to as “the pregnant man.”
We owe a debt of thanks, therefore, to Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby for pointing out the obvious—that Tracy LaGondino, who now uses the name “Thomas Beatie,” is not, in fact, a “man” at all, but a woman with a serious psychiatric problem known as “Gender Identity Disorder.” The sensation surrounding this pregnancy should remind us yet again of the irony—and utter absurdity—of the claims of the homosexual and transgender movement. They would have us believe (on no evidence whatsoever) that homosexuality is genetic, fixed at birth, and immutable; while our sex, which is written in the chromosomes of every cell of our bodies, is malleable and can be changed at will.
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I am so tired of the homosexual news of the weird stuff, almost as tired as the Brittany stuff. Can't we move on to normal and important things. There are so many sad stories about the consequences of immoral sexual behavior,you would think they would try being normal, but as long as they get all the attention in the world they are not going to stop.
April 17, 2008 1:58 PM | Comment Permalink
Does a brain have a gender? It seems that it does: men are not women with different plumbing!
Plumbing is determined by whether you have XX or XY chromosomes. (Entirely? I don’t know.) Now the brain _might_ get its gender in exactly the same way the plumbing does. In that case it’s hard to see how a person could have the plumbing of one gender and the brain of another. But what if the brain gets its gender – at least in part - in some other way? In that case a person could end up with the plumbing of one gender and the brain of the other. Do I need to point out that this would not be their fault?
Do you know for certain that the gender of your plumbing and the gender of your brain came from exactly the same source? Beyond a shadow of a doubt? I doubt it. I doubt if anyone knows yet. If you have any doubt at all you might be blaming the victim. My guess – my hope - is you don’t want to do that.
April 21, 2008 1:21 PM | Comment Permalink