Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie on Oprah
Filed under: News, TV Shows | By: Kerry
Posted on: April 4, 2008 | 42 Comments
Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie appeared on Oprah last night with his wife Nancy.
Thomas who is a transsexual man said that he is excited about the upcoming birth of his “miracle” child.
Thomas underwent gender reassignment surgery but kept his female reproductive organs. Thomas said that he “opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day”.
During the show they broadcasted the ultrasound images and the audio of the baby’s heartbeat.
Thomas told Oprah that “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe she’s inside me. This is a miracle. We see this as a miracle. I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am. It’s not a male or female desire to want to have a child, it’s a human desire. I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child. I think that people will be shocked because no-one’s ever heard of a man giving birth before. I guess it’s a shocking concept, but in this day and age that’s possible. And it’s happening now.”
Thomas’s doctor Kimberley James, said that “This baby’s totally healthy and this is, I consider, an average pregnancy,”
What were your views of the show?
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In my opinion, Thomas is a woman no matter what he says. A man doesnt have a special body to consive a baby. I think God is perfect and He created man and woman differently. Men do not have vaginia’s, nor do they have a uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries. The only important thing here is that the baby is healthy.
“Men do not have vaginia’s, nor do they have a uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries.”
I some cases they do (it has to do with the sexual differentation in the 7th week in uterus, when body-parts go the female or male direction - remember in the first weeks every human being is biologically neither male nor female, everyone has organs that can develope male and female and in some cases man can develop female reproductive organs). This is nature and part of the truth. Why do some people have such big problems with the truth? It’s a shame.