The "Pregnant Man"...will this ruin Gay Rights?
By KYEEDAH1
@KYEEDAH1 (139)
United States
November 17, 2008 2:21pm CST
Well, as you know, the "pregnant man" is back in the spotlight for wanting to give birth to another child. I started thking about this very controversial issue and wondered if this will affect gay rights issues. More specifically, how do you think it will affect proponents of gay marriage?
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@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
17 Nov 08
This issue is separate from the gay rights issue as this 'man' is a surgically altered woman, who by all intends and purposes at one point stated that she wants to live as man because that's what she feels she is. Otherwise the surgery and hormone therapy wouldn't have been approved. Like so many other people in that situation 'he' lived as a man and even got married. Only when 'he' and his wife wanted children did 'he' take advantage of the fact that although all female attributes had been removed on the outside of his body, the inside had been left intact. So this 'man' decided to revert to being a woman for the purpose of carrying a child not only once but now twice.
This will have an affect on people who want to undergo a gender re-assignment as they most likely will have to go further intensive questioning and possibly also complete removal of the reproductive organs to avoid future 'pregnant men'. Carrying a child is a privilege assigned to women, not to men.
By all means the couple is however not in a homosexual relationship. There is one man and one woman. It therefore should have no effect on the homosexual marriage issue at all. If at all, it will give more fuel to those who oppose gender re-assignment surgery as this 'man' obviously did not completely take on the burden of being a man. Real man whose wives can't bear children due to whatever reason don't have the choice this person made.
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