Jordy
04-04-2008, 05:37 PM
A US man who is six months pregnant, 10 years after undergoing a sex change operation, has said he considers his unborn child a "miracle".
Thomas Beatie, 34, said it was his right to have a child. The medical procedures he underwent a decade ago did not affect his reproductive system.
His wife says she inseminated him using sperm from an anonymous donor. Their doctor says it is a normal pregnancy.
"It's not a male or female desire to have a child," he said. "It's a human desire. I have a very stable male identity."
"He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother," she said.
The baby would be "daddy's little princess", said Mr Beatie, who described himself as a tomboy growing up.I think this story is reasonably sick to be fair, I haven't made my mind up on homosexual couples or transsexual couples having or adopting children, I think it'd be unfair for the child to have parent's like that, and perhaps they wouldn't be capable but anyway, I'm not trying to debate that.
I think it's sick her 'Dad' is giving birth to her, if they wanted a baby which is fair enough, and he has been a man for 10-years so his previous-transsexual status won't count for much, but couldn't the mother of had the baby instead, it would be more normal and less 'unusual' for the child? :S
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7330196.stm
Thomas Beatie, 34, said it was his right to have a child. The medical procedures he underwent a decade ago did not affect his reproductive system.
His wife says she inseminated him using sperm from an anonymous donor. Their doctor says it is a normal pregnancy.
"It's not a male or female desire to have a child," he said. "It's a human desire. I have a very stable male identity."
"He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother," she said.
The baby would be "daddy's little princess", said Mr Beatie, who described himself as a tomboy growing up.I think this story is reasonably sick to be fair, I haven't made my mind up on homosexual couples or transsexual couples having or adopting children, I think it'd be unfair for the child to have parent's like that, and perhaps they wouldn't be capable but anyway, I'm not trying to debate that.
I think it's sick her 'Dad' is giving birth to her, if they wanted a baby which is fair enough, and he has been a man for 10-years so his previous-transsexual status won't count for much, but couldn't the mother of had the baby instead, it would be more normal and less 'unusual' for the child? :S
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7330196.stm