One man, in his own words. - Thomas Beatie: My Obviously Pointless Take on the "OMG! DUDE'S HAVING A BABY, Y'ALL" issue...

Why all the fuss about her? him? herim? Thomas having a baby?
I haven't slept since Wednesday, and was watching a clip of the Oprah thing on BBC News, and just thought I'd make a post of it. Trying to make this page a little more relevant in the world.
But yeah...
This has been done before, people. Twice even...

Remember this?




And of course, everyone remembers this historic event...

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So yeah. I must say that I am far from understanding and comprehending what goes through the mind of people who go have gender reassignment treatment. That must be a difficult and painful decision to deal with mentally and physically...

But yeah... this is just.... Man.
I guess there isn't anything wrong with wanting to bring a child into this world within the confines of a loving and caring family, but still. What are they going to tell the kid? It will take a lot for him/her to wrap their head around "daddy used to be a woman, so that is why he could have a baby.", and not have it fly in the face or the normal gender role positions (and conventional biology) they will grow up learning in this society. Sure, there are are same sex couple that have children. I read Heather Has Two Mommies, and thought it a very useful tool (minus the political and science-y akwardness), but it is a little more delicate and complicated situation for a child to understand, right off the bat. "Heather has a mom and a dad that was born a mom, but was really a dad to begin with, so he went to the doctor and the doctor made him into a dad, and dad had gave birth to her because mom couldn't ".

I hope you get what I am trying to say here.
I'm not condemning it, but I'm not 100% condoning this situation.
Right now, I'm about about 65%
I'm just saying it is what it is.

I'd love to hear a comment from anyone who comes across this that has an obviously more educated viewpoint than I to share.

-Leon