Pregnant Woman: No Such Thing; Just Hype to Make Money

Oh come off it already, people: Thomas Beatie is a woman. Inside Thomas Beatie's uterus is an embryo. This makes "the pregnant man" a pregnant woman. I'm sick of Thomas Beatie being continually referred to as a pregnant man, especially as the world's first pregnant man. Thomas Beatie is not the world's first pregnant man, because she is not a pregnant man, because Thomas Beatie IS NOT A DUDE in the first place! When news first broke about "a pregnant man," I immediately thought, "This is a media tweak on wording. The man is a woman who underwent a sex change but kept her feminine equipment."

Of course, I was right. Thomas Beatie is NOT a man, even though she is recognized as a male, from a legal standpoint in terms of "his" marriage to a woman. The courts could recognize Thomas Beatie as a man all they want, but Thomas Beatie is a woman. I'm sure a lot of people, when news first broke of "the pregnant man," actually believed Thomas Beatie was biologically a male and somehow, some mad scientist succeeded in getting him pregnant. Well, there are a lot of morons out there. If you're a woman, imagine taking testosterone injections twice a week. Your voice deepens. Your face begins growing hair. The hair under your armpits gets heavier. A surgeon cuts off your breasts. Your chest grows a little hair.

However, that's all that happens, because you don't have surgery to remove your uterus or ovaries. You retain the female organs you were born with. You cut your hair and wear a man's shirt and jeans. You call yourself a masculine name. Are you then a male??

NO. You are still a woman. Just because your outward appearance has changed (hair growth, new muscles, masculine clothes) doesn't mean you're a male. There are many ways a woman can change her outward appearance and look like a man. She could wear a butch hairdo and baseball cap. She could wear a plaid shirt, jeans and sneakers. She could hold a cigarette like a dude. Maybe her voice is deep like a dude's due to smoking. Maybe she has a few scary-looking tattoos on her arms. Maybe she lifts weights.

But she is still a woman. (next page)