Thursday, March 27, 2008

The guy who both wears the pants AND has the babies

Have you read about the Oregon guy who was born a woman, but became a man about 10 years ago and was legally male. He and his wife wanted a baby, but his wife had had a hysterectomy so the burden of creating life fell to the husband. He had had a double mastectomy and was on testosterone, but hadn't had any reconstruction... down there. Anyway, 4 months after stopping the testosterone therapy, he was able to be artificially inseminated and now they're expecting a baby. There was an article about the couple, including this Demi Moore-style nude pregnancy photo. (Although if you didn't know he was pregnant, you'd just think he had a very localized beer gut.) Talk about not fair. Here's someone who literally changed his whole person and yet easily got pregnant, while some women, who are taking all the right vitamins, getting plenty of exercise, etc. can't get pregnant at all.

I had to laugh, though, when talking to Janis about this. When I showed her this picture, she responded, "If I was going to go to the trouble of changing sex, I dang for sure would not do the crappiest part of being a woman: childbirth!" Classic! (Of course her absolutely HORRIFYING birth experience playing absolutely NO role in her making that statement.)

1 comment:

Deb said...

That is a bit freaky! I'm all for people doing what they want with their lives, but I think I have to agree with your friend Janis. What the....?
On the other hand...pretty cool for that couple to be able to have a child!