No Such Thing as a Pregnant Man?

Thomas Beattie (better known as the Pregnant Man) is expecting another child.

So what?

This is provoking hundreds of complaints from people whose business it really isn't. People who call themselves "open-minded" then go on to say "this is just gross. These people need to get some definate therapy and sorry IF you a woman taking hormones to be a man and vice versa, IT is the female of our species to bear children, can't get around that no way," or "this is just not right and he must be some kind of thrill seeker. Why didn't he wait to be a man they have have the surgery after he gave birth this is just a freak show plain and simple. nothing else. FREAK SHOW," among other tasteful and balanced comments.

Is he a man? Isn't he a man? Is our sex - both gender and sexuality - defined by who we identify as or our biology? Does it really matter? They want to have a family, and they've found a way - isn't that the important thing here? What's the controversy, and why does everyone care? Are we so gender-defined in our culture that men can't give birth? Really, what's the big deal?

Would it really kill people to be a little more open minded and less judgemental? Or is there such a thing as being "too open-minded" about an issue like this, as Holmes245 would like to aruge?

(I think Holmes' argument is much like my brother's own stance that I'm too open-minded, I have no standards, I agree with and accept everything etc - void. We're not anarchists, for goodness sake. We're just less stereotypical than you are, and we don't freak out if/when things or people don't fit convention.)

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JAG