Can you please explain this to me ?

[confusedimmigrant]

I follow a friend of a friend online they are a gay couple (both men) . He just put a picture of an adorable newborn with the caption on august the 22nd my boyfriend gave birth to .... blah blah

what does that mean ? That they had a surrogate and his boyfriend is the father ? Is the the "politically correct" way to announce it ?
I find it very dissrespectful

Is he a pre op transgender?

He gave birth?

Could it be that he is trans? Not sure why else they would say he "gave birth" to a baby, slightly odd choice of words otherwise IMO!

Is your friend Tom Daley?

@PurpleDaisies i dont know who is that
He is not trans he is just a gay man

Well If he's a man he obviously hasn't given birth so no idea what it means. But yes maybe he's transgendered. If it was a surrogate I doubt you'd use the term 'given birth' as that would be incorrect and just a bit odd!

Did he type boyfriend or bf?

Bf could be his best friend....?

Or a transman, I suppose.

my boyfriend gave birth to

Jesus, no he didn't 😂

Unless he's trans, which you say he isn't. So no, he didn't

Men don't give birth. He must be a transman.

Just to clarify you wouldn't say boyfriend gave birth if he was biological father and surogat was used just as much as you wouldn't say mam in heterosexual couple gave birth.

He typed boyfriend . Ok so they have an instagram account for the baby and there is a picture of a woman lying in the hospital bed with the baby on her chest and his boyfriend taking a selfie.
Mystery solved !!

Lots of couples say "We're pregnant" these days (which annoys the shite out of me, if I'm honest - no, the woman who will carry the child and give birth to it is pregnant) - so I wonder if they did surrogacy and they're claiming the sperm donor 'gave birth'?

I just found it really odd and disrespectful for the surrogate

So they used a surrogate?

I’m not sure it’s disrespectful do much as totally bizarre and inaccurate to say a man gave birth.

Only female humans can give birth so there is some bullshit nonsense with languge going on, or a big typo.

It is really disresectful to the surrogate to deny her experience and take it as his own - and weird.

I took it as tongue on cheek. Dads often post birth announcements saying their partners gave birth to x at y time, it was just mimicking that. He clearly wasn't trying to imply his boyfriend actually gave birth

Tongue in cheek, not on cheek!

It means he's lying

May not be a surrogate, could be an agreement for both bf and the woman to be parents???

Then have shared care agreement??

I just asked in case it was the new norm ! Like the "we are pregnant " phrase !

They sound confused, entitled and deluded.

Poor kid.

Will the baby have any contact with its mother?

I don't think it really mattersanyone will know that neither dad gave birth, I'd just say congrats and leave it at that.