World First Pregnant Man Gives Birth to A Baby Girl

@winterose (39887)
Canada
July 8, 2008 10:21pm CST
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5302756&page=1 Yes it is true, a man gives birth to a baby girl, he was born a woman and had himself surgically changed into a man, but still maintained his female reproductive organs, I just don't understand, if he wanted to be a man, why want to have a baby? although I did see him on oprah, and his wife cannot have children, so he decided he would carry the pregancy. It is just all too weird for me, what do you think?
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
9 Jul 08
I saw it on Oprah and think the guy hit on a great way to make big bucks. He/she will write a book and then a reality show and on and on.... Had she really wanted to be a man she wouldn't have just given birth! I wonder how manly she feels with this new baby in her hands... I also wonder for how long did they plan this publicity. I think people will do anything to get noticed! I feel bad for the daughters of the wife and their children..they didn't choose this but their lives will never be 'everyday' lives. I guess I need to tell myself be and let be! I just don't get it!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yep what about the poor child, will she be ostracized in school or laughed at, I doubt that they thought about what kind of life the child will have at all.
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@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
9 Jul 08
I agree, it is too weird for me also.. I used to know how to figure out the world, it was a man, a woman and the children.. Now with all of the changes, it is getting too hard to keep score.. Yes, I agree, it is too weird..
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
I hope that poor child does not grow up confused, or made fun of at school.
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• United States
9 Jul 08
I do agree with many others on here that having the child (I am totally against abortion), and raising the child is the most important part but I do think that it is still too weird for me..
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
10 Jul 08
Wow!, I must say that is the strangest thing I have heard. But I bet that made them all the closer still since the husabnd(former woman) had the baby when she couldn't. I guess it doesn't matter where or whom the babies come from as long as we love and care for them. They were atleast blessed with a child of their..How in the world did he(she the former woman get pregnant) surely not a job he/she could do on her own.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
12 Jul 08
I think he said, but I forget, it must have been artificial insemination.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
9 Jul 08
Out of this world but if it works for them I guess alright
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
I hope the child will not be laughed at at school, children can be so cruel.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
10 Jul 08
yes kids can but if they dont know it that would be great!
@Foxxee (3651)
• United States
9 Jul 08
It's not really weird to me because females get pregnant everyday. This person we are talking about is in fact a female. She had female organs and was born a female. She just wants to be a male and lives her life as a male. Now if it was someone that was born a male and had no female organs whatsoever, then years later was found to be pregnant, I would be in shock.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
of course that would be impressive since it is medically impossible, lol
@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
9 Jul 08
Now if it was someone that was born a male and had no female organs whatsoever, then years later was found to be pregnant, I would be in shock LOL ya know doubt..THAT would actually be impressive in my books LOL
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@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
9 Jul 08
I find it very weird too.. I also learned that she was used to be a model! She is complicated for me..LOL!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
she was also a very beautiful woman, really beautiful, much better looking than how she is as a man.
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• United States
10 Jul 08
I agree, she wasted those gift but, maybe she wants this fame or just for self-satisfaction! Anyway, at least they are both safe!
@jewel76 (2305)
• Canada
9 Jul 08
I agree, it is weird..but, if he still has his female organs...where did the sperm come from for him to get pregnant? Did they go to a sperm bank? anyway...as long as his wife is ok with it, i guess it's their life, they can live how they want, and as long as they love their baby girl, then it's ok
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
I don't know where the sperm came from, that is a good question.
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• United States
9 Jul 08
Definitely a weird choice however IMO the heading is misleading as he was never physically a male therefore was not and never would be a man capable of childbirth. Just another example of media hoopla and of course the shemale had his/her few moments of fame and probably earned a lot of money!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yes of course the heading is misleading, but this transgender individual will tell you he is a man, with female organs but he identifies as a man, my problem is if he identifies with a man how can he want to have children, yes I do know his wife couldn't have any but men don't have children, so he really didn't identify as a man, he is very confused about his own identity.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
9 Jul 08
i alraedy read about this in news paper. i think it was somewhat weird. but his wife could not have children. so he decided to get one. still if they are happy, so is me.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yes I am not against it just find it very weird myself
9 Jul 08
I always knew the world was going a bit crazy! What in the world are they going to tell their daughter when she grows up? Your mother is really your father? This is just too strange for me. They should have thought of their child before they went through with this. She is going to be so confused. Going to school won't be pleasant for her either as the kids will be picking on her. What is going on in their heads? It makes you wonder if the parents think of the kind of life their child will have before creating them in the first place.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
that is exactly what |I am thinking about what will happen to that child once she goes to school and kids can be so cruel.
@roshand8 (1478)
• Sri Lanka
9 Jul 08
If he can give a birth to child how can he be a man?..I think no man is a woman from his birth and no woman is a man from her birth.They change there attitude later because of the out side world and the way they have raised.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
outwardly she was turning into a man, but still had a baby, that is the weird part, that is trying to be male and female at the same time.
@capirani (2840)
• United States
9 Jul 08
He is not a man no matter what he says he is. He was only partially surgically changed and since he kept his female reproductive organs, in my book, he is a she. Actually he isn't either one anymore. I don't believe it is right to be fooling around with things like this to begin with. So she had her body surgically changed to some extent so she could look like a man. To become pregnant, she would have had to continue with female hormones. Did her DNA change? Is her DNA female DNA or male DNA? This is just too wrong!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yep she stopped taking the male hormones so she could get pregnant.
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• Belgium
9 Jul 08
Wow, that indeed is some weird sh*t. But how he's going to give birth to it while he doesn't have female genitals. Is he going to try it from the back lol? . I hope there won't be any negative consequences for the baby girl when it's born.. Nice discussion! Greetz.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
the baby emily is born, I guess it was done by caesarian section.
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• India
9 Jul 08
hello ya even i have seen in many news channels about this incident.But i think these things will be done for publicity,Because in foriegn countries if there wife is unfortunately could not deliver baby,they will go for orphonage babies from various free society.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yes that is what most people do here too, this is a first for anyone ever trying to do something like this as far as I know.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
9 Jul 08
I agree that is all to strange. Why did he /she want to become a man in the first place? I guess they decided that was the best way to have childen it just sounds very werid to me.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
oh the guy wanted to be a man, I can understand that but he wanted to have female organs so he could have a baby so in essence he wanted to be a male and female, that too me is the part that is very strange, most people want to be one or the other, not both at the same time. I am not putting him down or wishing anything bad on them, I just find it hard to understand why somebody would want to be both at the same time.
@MntlWard (878)
• United States
9 Jul 08
Well, I highly doubt he was the first. He's just the first one that the news media made a big deal about. Anyway, the reason he did this is that his wife was unable to bear a child, so he stopped the hormone therapy which repressed his female reproductive cycle in order to carry a child as a gift to his wife. Sure, it's an odd situation, but it's not much different from women who would rather not be pregnant, but choose to carry their husband's child, anyway.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
it is very different, woman have babies, this person is a man, men dont have babies that is what makes it different, yes of course he had female organs, but still he is walking around as a man, and men don't have babies, you cannot get any different than that.
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
9 Jul 08
This person had female reproductive organs - the person is a female not a male. Sorry, the pergnant person was NOT a man, is not a man and will not be a man as long as they have female organs,
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yeah that is one way of looking at it.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
9 Jul 08
I remember hearing about this a little while ago. It is by far one of the sickest things that I have ever heard. I feel very sorry for that little girl. This "mother" can call herself what ever she chooses to, but she is still a woman. I wish someone would take this baby away and give her a good sound upbringing and teach her to fear God.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
I hope they can give the child a good life, but with that transgender father, it is weird, but I think it can be done.
• Nepal
9 Jul 08
I am also surprising but I think some when a man makes the decission in hurry and and at last feels sorry for that.The case is in same with that man or woman I don't know. But best is that he must accept what he was. Any way how can I get the chance to watch him will the show be resumed again?
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
I don't know if the show will come on again, but I am sure he will appear in other shows, this is international news.
@jallyjoe (12)
• Jamaica
9 Jul 08
there is no way a man can turn a woman or vice versa. that person is a female, she was born like that and what ever she does it cannot change how god has made her. no man can have a baby. God would have to come first.surgery don't change anything, maybe the outside but not the organs.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Jul 08
yes that is true, that is why he could have a baby, because inside he was still a woman.