Glamour magazine - pregnant trans man

[pretendingtobezen]

Apologies if there’s a thread already but as someone at similar stage of pregnancy I’m struggling to articulate my thoughts on this one.

Let and let live vs feeling offended (not even sure that’s the word?!) as at similarly heavily pregnant stage

I didn't even realise it was body paint; thought it was just a cheap nasty suit. I guess I'm not the target demographic for Glamour magazine.

I feel sorry for the healthcare staff, already tired and stressed, having to remember their language doublethink when dealing with patients like this.

He’d have to have periods though. How does that work with testosterone?

This person was "off hormones temporarily for their health" or something, which is probably an acknowledgment that taking large amounts of exogenous testosterone isn't good for female bodies.

@Neverinamonthofsundays
If she fancies gender realignment surgery then perhaps but until then she is our little girl whether she wants to be our little boy or not.

I thought «gender realignment» was beautifully put 😄

Just read further on and realised - the «male» got pregnant by accident.
I mean… ok?
So she and her partner are having heterosexual sex with the usual bits involved, and were surprised a pregnancy ensued.

That’s a bit «special», yes.

Serious question: does it hurt in the breast-area or will all the milk-ducts have been removed with the mastectomy?

Time was when the focus of sex education in schools was to teach girls how not to get pregnant.
Now with such a busy curriculum of all things trans and queer with a side order of porn one wonders if any teenagers are being taught the basic biology, let alone safe sex.

I'll let Freddy McConnell answer that.
A woman who didn't realise that double mastectomy means no milk ducts/breast feeding equipment. 🙄

So in a nutshell, it's a woman that got up the duff but this woman says shes a man and acts like a man. Ookkkaayy.

WTF is wrong with Freddie that they are asking for breast milk donations from randomers over the internet for their baby?

I pumped loads as DS was premature and had a freezer full of milk I didn’t use but the milk bank didn’t want because it had been in the freezer longer than 3m IIRC. So how on Earth is it ok to just get milk from anyone who’s got some going spare? You know nothing about whether that person has had to take medication etc, just relying on their say so!

Trans men can get pregnant, they are biologically women
Trans women can’t as they are biologically men.
As long as it’s clear these people are Trans (and let’s face it it is) then I don’t have an issue with it.
Their child might though

A woman with short hair wearing trousers managed to get pregnant? Definitely front page news.

Freddie clearly doesn't understand biology. There's no hope, is there?

<Channels Jeff Goldblum>

Life will find a way.

Also from Jeff Goldblum
”You spent so much time working out how you could you didn’t stop to think if you should” - paraphrased

Jeff is wise and hot, sorry I know it's the Feminism board and I shouldn't lower the tone.

Or in a deliberate attempt to become pregnant.

True on both counts
@MrsTerryPratchett

It is truer the Jeff is wise than that this is not a woman.

Thank you.

Well, that was a concerning read. Why would you Ask randomers on the net for spare breast milk? That is a bit odd. I assume milk donated to the hospitals are vetted one way or another.

Also fecking weird that Freddie blames a «cis heteronormative» system for not being spoonfed this information when having surgery to appear more male.
Pregnancy and childbirth is THE thing that marks out women, and is THE source of all the societal control systems put in place across the globe for thousands of years.

Did Freddie miss that?

I think we can make an exception for Jeff.

Freddie had the nerve to ask for donated breast milk? Or chest milk?

She's a pregnant woman with a buzz cut, groundbreaking and brave im sure

God yes.

celebrating heterosexuals for reproducing feels very 2023 Pride yes. congrats on the baby, do try to vet the internet milk though.

His brain says he's a man- However the body says a female. If you're using your lady parts to give birth then you are a woman.