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Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gave birth to baby girl today via
Cesarean natural birth! Congrats! • Two prominent female activists from the group Women and Men of Zimbabwe Arise have
been detained for 6 weeks for peacefully protesting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. • A Canadian doctor and Holocaust survivor who fought to legalize abortion in Canada will receive the country's
highest civilian honor despite condemnation from anti-choice advocates. • A new art exhibit aims to break Western depictions of Muslim and Arab women by
highlighting female artists (Muslim and non-Muslim) from the Islamic world.
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Remember
Thomas Beatie, the
pregnant transmale, who looks like a dude, but is with child like a lady? Well Beatie's neighbors in Oregon are calling
bullshit on him, saying that the pregnancy is a
fake. Ron Schlieper, who lives near Beatie in Bend, Oregon, told
ABC News, "Quite frankly, I think it's a hoax. I saw him a few days ago, and he didn't look like that." The
Advocate, the magazine that published Beatie's first-person account of his pregnancy, is standing behind him. "We asked Thomas to provide the name of his doctor, and she confirmed that he was pregnant and that his pregnancy is proceeding as it should," according to
Advocate editor Anne Stockwell. Is he the Peggy Seltzer of pregnancy?? [
Guanabee,
ABC News]
transamerica
The concept of gender in mainstream culture is becoming less conservative by the day. Of course it's not like being at Smith, but when
Benny Ninja can vogue his little butt off on a graffiti-ed stage with a bunch of drag queens during prime time and no one bats an eyelash, you know things have come pretty far since
Leave it to Beaver. One of the last truly gendered events is pregnancy — unless you're
Thomas Beatie. Thomas is a man, and he's knocked up. Well more specifically, Thomas is biologically a woman, but he decided to go through gender reassignment. Getting down to the nuts (heh) and bolts of it, Thomas took testosterone and had his breasts removed, but he kept the vagina. His partner, Nancy, is unable to bear children, and because the pair really wanted a biological baby, Thomas went off his bi-monthly testosterone injections and after a few harrowing attempts, is now expecting a baby girl in July.
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