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Thomas Beatie is the Pregnant Man
Pregnant man! This is different! Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man who says he is pregnant, told his story in The Advocate magazine. An American man who used to be a woman says he’s more than five-months pregnant with a girl. ( see video below)
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man who lives in Oregon, tells his story in a first-person account published in The Advocate — a magazine for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.
In the story, Beatie reveals that he is legally male and married to a woman named Nancy.
“Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,” he says in the article.
Beatie said he stopped taking his testosterone injections to get pregnant. He claims to have already gone through an ectopic pregnancy.
Beatie said it was a “life-threatening event” that resulted in the loss of all the embryos (he had triplets) and his right fallopian tube.
Now, his second time getting pregnant, Beatie says the pregnancy is free of complications.
PREGNANT WOMAN MEETS PREGNANT MAN
A pregnant woman meets a pregnant man and they lament over the travails of being with child and giving birth.
pregnant man interview
Janice
I remember seeing it last year on Saturday Night Live. I thought I was hot.
Mr. Lee
But, he still did it for laughs. I think many drag queens who were pinched to the subversion of drag – the shock value of it – are somewhat upset at how mainstream it has become. And meanwhile, I see many transvestites who are still marginalized by both gay and straight people. If you're a man who in fact wants to become a woman, without the intent of performing or putting on a show, then you're still considered weird.
Janice
How would you respond to people who would judge you a pregnant transvestite and not a pregnant man?
Mr. Lee
Well, it's not actually accurate. I'm still male afterall – biologically and anatomically. It's interesting that some people believe the meaning of being a man is so precarious! And unlike the men who feel this strong desire to bodily become women, I've never wished for that ... and I haven't done that. I have, however, always wanted to have a much stronger empathy with women. I love my mother and sister very much, and I'm very glad to share in something they have both experienced. Being pregnant is a wonderful feeling. It's something that all human beings – both men and women – should experience before they die. This process has been a spiritual rebirth for me.
pregnant man
Janice
I can tell you that my father for one would have donated all his internal organs before even entertaining the idea of getting pregnant.
Mr. Lee
Yes, it's attractive that many men feel very endangered by this idea. Men getting pregnant used to be a big joke – a point of ridicule. Someone was telling me about this popular American film where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character became pregnant. The humor was based on the sheer absurdity of such a distinct feminine condition being imposed on somebody who represented the ultimate paradigm of Western masculinity. It seems like something rooted in a preoccupation with very traditional gender role assumptions. There was also an episode of The Cosby Show, apparently, where the male characters dreamed they were all pregnant. Now that pregnant men are a reality, no one is laughing any longer!
Janice
I was thinking about how a lot of sitcoms, particularly in the 70's and 80's, were always filled with men dressing up women to get laughs. But when men in real life in fact wanted to dress up as women, they were usually harassed or beaten up.
Mr. Lee
That's a good analogy. Drag was once measured something provocative, bizarre, and unnatural. Now we even have the mayor of New York dressing up as a woman on live television. Did you hear about that?
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