Man Gives Birth

I am sure you have all heard about this one. Man gets pregnant. Man gives birth. Man gets pregnant again because he wants his daughter to be a big sister.

If you missed the 20/20 show on this you should go to their web site and watch it.


http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6244878&page=1

I don’t know if this really qualifies as a man getting pregnant as Thomas Beatie (the pregnant man) was born female and had a sex change but kept her internal female organs. When Thomas discovered his female life partner could not get pregnant, they decided that Thomas would carry the baby. So while I don’t think this really qualifies as “man gets pregnant” I do think the pictures catch your attention and make you think WOW.

Whatever you think about this, from the interview, they seem like a nice caring couple who will be good parents. The fact that his wife started lactating after the baby was born may be a sign that god feels the same way.

If you are freaked about people who desire sex changes, just remember that about 1 in 1,500 babies are born with visibly noticeable atypical genitals to the degree that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in. This is the numbers for visible at birth, there are a lot more people born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which don’t show up until later in life. What you see on the outside does not always define the gender of a person.