Pregnant Dad-to-be

@jezebels.

How lovely that we live in enlightened times.....where biological parenthood is a possibility opened to all, not just straight, and cisgender people.

I'm confused, please could you clarify your comments. When was biological parenthood restricted to 'cis' people? Lots of transvestites have been parents. What does the clothes you wear or the words you use have to do with your fertility?

@jezebels

It’s an issue of terminology, I don’t think many people have an issue with the fact these people are having a baby. I agree that biological parenthood being opened up to more people is positive.

Huh? Lesbians have been having babies for yonks. Anyone with a healthy, functioning reproductive system has the possibility of bio parenthood available to them.

One of the reasons that sterilising young people by removing their healthy reproductive organs is unethical, IMO.

There’s no such thing as a cisgender person jezebelz

Scout is a biological parent - the child’s mother.

I half agree McTufty. Birth mothers literally risk their lives in pregnancy and childbirth. It is appropriative for a male to insist on this title.

There would be no child without a male gamete, something that only a male partner can provide. I'm not sure that it is OK for a female to insist on the fiction of appropriating this either. It would risk implying that 'your biology is irrelevant' to a son, as they grew up.

I have less of an issue with him being listed as the father than I do a trans woman being listed as the birth mother on the birth certificate. What a female has to do to bring a child into the world vs what a male has to do - it would be totally wrong if someone who ejaculates and someone else surrenders their body and suffer horrendous pain and recovery to grow the child to then get listed as the birth mother.

"The language in these groups is always like: 'Come on ladies, come on mamas'. It is strongly gendered and I understand why but I don't feel safe."

That accurately-sexed language makes Scout feel unsafe (rather than, for example, offended) is a very strong indicator of poor MH IMO. Any HCP worth their salt would be exploring this feeling in great detail before making irreversible changes to Scout's healthy body.

A young, mentally ill person is planning to permanently remove healthy reproductive organs and pump themselves full of harmful drugs and hormones. Whilst others look on and cheer. That's the big scandal here.

I wish Scout and Scout's baby well. No doubt women will be the ones to support them throughout the birth, postpartum and early years. Because women know about living with female biology and the material reality of reproduction.

"We still hear stories about young trans men thinking testosterone acts as a contraceptive which it doesn't. I've had to do a lot of the work making sure that every single person I am seeing is going to be understanding and adapting practices to meet mine and my whānau's needs."

So these young "transmen" are still letting dicks in their vagina.

Why is it that even transmen don't opt out of PIV knowing the risks involved, especially if they have body dysphoria? They could have happy healthy sex lives without it but the guy they are with is always going to see "them" as a convenient place for his dick.

Depending on the exact surgical technique used it can still be possible to breastfeed post surgery. The techniques are not the same as for mastectomies for cancer.

How do you chestfeed when you've had a double mastectomy?

I don’t understand the cognitive dissonance going on in this person’s world - believing they are male but prepared to go through pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding (I will never call it chest feeding). And the birth certificate thing is so unfair on the child and future grandchildren- they have the right to know their history, especially their genetic history.

Only a female person can be pregnant.

Clearly female person due to birth child, plans to inflicts her bat shit insane gender ideology on child.

I suppose that doesn't get the same clicks as 'Pregnant dad to be!'