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Labor of Love

To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are — a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.

I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.


Well, this is different.




  1. Uncle Ben says:

    Cool….. I am tempted to wonder if the testosterone and that would affect the baby, but then I’d say the same thing about many of the fertility treatments. Still, top marks for them wiling try!

  2. Ron Larson says:

    So she had an “adadictome” operation.

    [If she did, it’ll be an especially painful childbirth. – ed.]

  3. pat says:

    Hmmm. She’s not a man so why the headline?

  4. Uncle Dave says:

    #3: Could it be because that’s his wife saying it?

  5. pat says:

    #4 “wife” So, two women got married.

    “She stopped taking testosterone injections two years ago and her periods started again after four months. The couple, from Bend, Oregon, faced hostility from doctors but eventually found a sperm bank.”

  6. JFStan says:

    “So, two women got married.”

    Incorrect, Pat, a transsexual man is a man. Gender is determined by our psychological makeup, not our physical sex. But, I understand it’s difficult for many to grasp, especially not being in that situation, but it’s true. If we were all just living brains sitting in jars with no physical senses, only the ability to think, we would still know whether we were male or female.

  7. pat says:

    #6 – Too funny. Wishing something were so doesn’t make it so. I wish I were an F22 pilot. That isn’t determined by my psych make up. It is determined by reality. I could think I was an eagle, psych wise. Still wouldn’t be true. You have really bought this crap?

  8. RBG says:

    And now you know why sex “re-assignment” is such a crock.

    Next we’ll have people who believe they are neither male nor female, or want to be an alien. Or is that like Michael Jackson & Prince?

    If everything was healthy and normal then there wouldn’t be a need for psychologists and psychiatrists.

    RBG

  9. Mr. Catshit says:

    #7, pat,

    You only want to be an F-22 pilot because you are so used to being shot down so much.

  10. pat says:

    #9 Ooo, ouch. Good retort! 😉

  11. Steve S says:

    I am so confused……

  12. brian says:

    #11
    so’s that couple….

  13. Brian says:

    Good for them. If a happy and loving couple (no matter their sexual makeup, mm, mf, ff) are willing to accept the responsibility of a child, then more power to them. How many abandoned children of ‘traditional’ couples do we hear about, yet some backassed people think this is somehow wrong?

  14. TheGlobalWarmer says:

    But don’t you know, there have been efforts at the UN to formally recognize 7 genders…

  15. RBG says:

    That will mean 7 washrooms, of course.

    RBG


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