Pregnant Man Pregnant Again

76. I know of a family with two Moms who have adopted two little boys with ADD and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. They are doing a great job, and these little boys are thriving. Would you "Christians" adopt these kids? Get out there and do it or shut your mouths.

Posted at 12:11PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Deal \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

ummmm, I'm a Christian and I would adopt those kids.

Thanks.

Posted at 5:45PM on Nov 13th 2008 by k

77. So #72, how many fetal alcohol children have you adopted then? Oh wait, I know the answer. None. You are all talk.

Posted at 5:47PM on Nov 13th 2008 by David

78. PATHETIC in every way.

Posted at 5:59PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Memememe

79. I have a few things to say about this. First of all, I want to make it clear that I do not necessarily agree with the way this couple has behaved. I worry about the affects of the hormones and publicity on the children. Personally, I don't like the idea of making a spectacle out of private family life. Not a fan of the exploitive culture our reality TV / Dr. Phil / Oprah / TMZ country is breeding. And I have to agree that it does seem like Beatie is taking advantage of Oprah and TMZ and their viewers' sick hunger for anything that seems crazy (to quote nearly every other posting here) or "FREAK"-ish. I mean, who knows why we all clicked on the link and read this article? Are you TMZ watchers usually? If so, I think you kind of have to forfeit your right to criticize people for soaking up the spotlight since YOU are fueling it too! If you don't watch TMZ, there must be some reason you wanted to read this story. And there must be some reason why you are so offended by it and feel the need to call names, make moral judgments, and maybe most absurdly of all, to claim that this is somehwow infringing on your rights as a parent. PLEASE. That is so ridiculous. There are so many more awful things going on that we have to deal with as parets. Just tell them, "There's all different kinds of people in the world," and move on.

I disagree with MANY of the things that I see in our society. They are probably different things than what you agree/disagree with. Does that mean I should go on the TMZ websiste and start namecalling and posting useless comments like "I hate Liberals", etc. etc. etc. Come on everybody. Get it together. Things happen that might be outside of what you are used to. Things happen that might not suit your taste. Things happen that fall outside of convention, in societal terms, in biological terms, in ALL terms. I don't believe "anything goes," as one person posted, but I don't see what's political about "live and let live" as long as it's people aren't being hurt. As far as the couple's 2 babies, it's not our place to judge if this is harming them emotionally. And come on. If you're honest with yourself you know this doesn't hurt you or your children! You just don't like it because you think it's weird. What does that really say about you?

Posted at 6:34PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Mary

80. Sad and so wrong. I'm a nurse and this is NOT a man!!! SHE is pregnant! God help us all!!

Posted at 6:37PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Pamama

81. Pamama --- Funny, I'm a nurse too. Did they teach you to judge your patients as being "sick and wrong" in nursing school ? Because that's not what I got out of it.

Posted at 6:45PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Mary

82. oh sorry i meant "sad and so wrong"

Posted at 6:50PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Mary

83. ..."The 34 year old female father..."?!@*?!

Are you kidding me? So if a man cuts off his parts and adopts a child, is he called a male mother? WTF?

Posted at 7:02PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Malia

84. Malia- "I have a idea! Let's all go on TMZ and post the same thing over and over and over!!!" (I can only assume that's what all you posters said to each other before you came here and started posting.) You all must be really smart!

Posted at 7:08PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Mary

85. I am with ReyJ and all the others who say THIS IS NOT A MAN!!! For God's sake PLEASE quit saying "Pregnant Man" It makes the reporter seem so ignorant. This person is a WOMAN who had a mastectomy and is taking testerone to give her the appearance of a man.. If a man puts a dress on and gets breast implants does that make him a woman if he still has his "package"?? HELL NO!! Grow up people.. Call it as it is.. A woman who has altered her appearce to look like a man....Real men can't have babies

Posted at 7:56PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Kay

86. Kay, just so you know, the reason why reporters refer to Beatie as "he" is because she legally had her gender changed and is now legally considered male, I'm in no way defending the way this has been reported on and I really don't think the TMZ "reporters" generally deserve to be defended. I'm just trying to explain that Beatie identifies as a man and is also legally identified as a male.

Your opinion is yours to have, but just to give you a little information, gender is known to be a much more complicated issue than it may seem (especially if you base your perception on the way society divides male and female roles.) Babies can be born with variations of sex chromosmes. A typical boy has an X and a Y chromosome and a typical girl has two X chromosomes. But there are people with XXY, XYY, XXX, and simply X chromosomes. In men with XXY chromosomes, beard growth is poor, testes are poorly developed, and breasts grow. In women with only one X chromosome, there is poor breast development and underdeveloped ovaries. Besides that, babies are sometimes born with ambiguous genders and doctors and parents have sometimes decided to do sugery and hormonal intervention to make the baby more specific to one gender over the other. This is one thing that has contributed to children growing up feeling like a "man caught in a woman's body" and visa versa. Also, as you probably know, estrogen is considered a female hormone and testosterone is considered a male hormone. But males and females both have both hormones in varying proportions, and secondary "sex" characteristics can develop from disproportionate amounts of these hormones. All I'm saying is, IT AIN'T THAT SIMPLE so, in your words "grow up" and quit yappin your mouth at others without any relevant facts.

Posted at 8:32PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Mary

87. Hey Mary #80
I think I made like 2 or 3 posts. I don't read every single post on these stupid threads and would not have known if I was redundant in pointing out something that another poster might have said already, esp. a story as lame as this one. If my post was echoing others, it had to have been unique enough for you to call me out by name? Did my name stand out for you or something?

Posted at 9:41PM on Nov 13th 2008 by Malia

88. Being gay is one thing. And being transsexual is also one thing. These are individuals who are living their lives to suit who they are, & should be accepted with no judgement. But this "pregnant man" is a freak. What he/she has done has turned itself into a post surgical hermaphrodite. SHE is really still a woman if she keeps her female organs, & opts to give birth with the organs she was born with. This woman does not need a sex change. This woman neds s psychiatrist, NOW!

Posted at 11:56AM on Nov 15th 2008 by Sandeana

89. Malia,
Nope, nothing personal. I originally wrote one posting in response to everything that people had posted here. Almost all of the postings here say either, "It's not a man!", "It's a WOMAN!" "Why do people keep calling her a pregnant man?", or "That's disgusting" or "What a Freak." So I wrote my response to that. Then I started responding to whatever people posted after that. So you weren't the only person i wrote back to individually.

Posted at 10:04PM on Nov 13th 2008 by mary

90. Sandeana,
Ok! I get the point! A lot of people think he/she is a freak. Fine. She identifies as a man, others identify her as a woman, and still others identify her (so eloquently) as a freak. But what's the point in calling her a freak? What does that accomplish. You think she needs a psychiatrist, but why? Besides that you think she's a freak and that you think this is unnatural, so forth. Don't you think there are more important issues that the public should intervene on? Who cares if she identifies as a man or a woman? Who cares if she turns herself (your words, not mine) into a "post-surgery hermaphrodite" ?? Why should anyone care enough to judge.

Posted at 10:14PM on Nov 13th 2008 by mary