Faster than you can say “Moment of Truth movie,” word has surfaced that a telefilm could be in the works about “the pregnant man,” Thomas Beatie. EW.com has learned that some networks, including Lifetime and one of the broadcast networks, have been shopped a project about about the 34-year-old Oregon man who was born a girl and decided to become a man a decade ago by taking testosterone and undergoing surgery to remove his breasts, according to published reports. Now married, Beatie was artifically inseminated and is now carrying a “healthy” baby. Beatie and his wife, Nancy, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 3 and are featured in the current issue of People. So far, it’s not known whether any network has yet to purchase the rights. In fact, one network executive wasn’t quite sure how to react when she first got the pitch via her cell phone. Her reaction, according to a source: “What? Who’s pregnant?”
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He’s only a man from the waist up — he kept all the female reproductive organs (except breasts). He also stopped taking testosterone 2 years ago so the hormones wouldn’t affect a baby. His wife can’t get pregnant, so he’s carrying their baby conceived via a sperm donor and a syringe.
How Jerry Springerish of Oprah! I said when I saw the ad for this show, “he” has got to be a “she,” a sex-change operation. Anyone who has ever taken a sex-ed class knows that a “person” has to have ovaries, fallopian tubes, and a uterus……well, at least a uterus for the egg to be implanted in. This was below Oprah’s usual standards.
I am all for people having the freedom to do whatever to their bodies. However, let’s call a spade a spade here. If he has female organs, he is a woman, not a man. The media will spin this to death and turn it into a freak show. Let’s all leave these two people alone to have their baby and move on with life. Aren’t there more important issues facing the world today than this??
Totally agree will last 3 posters. This person was born a woman. The ‘pregnant man’ claim is false and this is sensationalism at it’s best.
The straw that broke this camels back was when a guest commentator on CNN said ‘Maybe it will start I trend, I hope so’.
Man, people are so whacked these days!
Let’s me get this straight. A woman having a baby.
WOW! This is groundbreaking news!
Has anyone thought about what all that testosterone might do to the child?
This is just creepy.
Has anyone thought about what all that testosterone might do to the child?
This is just creepy.
UGH SO ANNOYING. It’s not a man. It’s just a manly looking woman.
Thomas is legally a man. If not, he would not have been allowed to marry a woman. If he had stayed a she, then the marriage would not have been legal. See, there’s a loophole in the stupid marriage laws. All you have to do is get a sex change. Someone explain to me why in these times your legal gender matters when you get married. I love how Thomas and his wife have embraced their love and turned gender roles around.
Ellie, ‘Someone explain to me why in these times’ people throw their common sense out the window.
I pity that poor kid.
To each his own BUT why didn’t they just adopt?
Tina, I don’t pity a child born into a home full of love, but I do feel for the child because of all the ugliness that she will encounter from outside her home. Children born from interracial marriages used to face horrible discrimination, but does that mean that they should never have been conceived? Somebody has to break down boundaries set by prejudice. I don’t believe that there will now be a bunch of pregnant men, but this event does make us reexamine what it means to be a man or woman.
ok. I can cluck like a chicken. This doesn’t mean I can lay an egg. This is a WOMAN. Basically…the bearded lady is having a baby. NOT a man!
This is a woman giving birth. This is the bearded lady. ONLY female humans can give birth. Men cannot give birth. She can live as a man, no problem. But at the end of the day, the laws of science have not changed here. If I suggest the earth is flat, that does not make it so. Same thing.
As stated above, Thomas stopped taking testosterone 2 years ago, so there should be no negative on the baby. Thomas is LEGALLY a man, but MEDICALLY a woman.
Regardless, I did see them on Oprah, and they do seem like a loving couple who will be good parents. The wife has two grown children that also appeared on Oprah who seemed to turn out OK. That side of the family seems to be handling everything well. But Thomas’ family — well, it’s more dysfunctional. Then again, what family ISN’T dysfunctional?
This is disgusting. Our world is going nuts!
disgusting
And the general consensus is….
UGH
He is still a she. I think He/She should get no money and the family should be looked over buy C.P.S..
The child will have ?’s when growing up…Like My dad was a girl but now he is a man and I came from him?…What child needs to be put in that kinda of home.
Hey Cindy E did you watch the episode or just the promo? The episode was completely enlightened and focused a lot on acceptance and human compassion. Something severely lacking on this message board. It was in no way beneath anyone’s standards. It simply told a story of 2 people creating a family.
Sorry Captain, but the two people ‘creating families’ should be a man and a woman. I personally won’t accept anything less. I have lots of compassion but right now it is aimed at this child about to be born.
I really don’t think Sister Mary is going to be happy about this.
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OPRAH – the new guru of ‘anything goes’.
Firstly, by law, he is recognized as a man and has a legal marriage with a woman. He may have been born a female, and genetically be a female, but for all intents and purposes, he is a man.
I am not going to get into the name-calling and such that happens with close-minded bigots. I’m just not going to go there.
I am really disappointed EW, by the comment that reads: “and is now carrying a “healthy” baby” Why is healthy in quotation marks? His dr said his is an average pregnancy. I think you’re taking and making assumptions, and I’m disgusted.
The children that should be put into the eyes of CPS are the ones living and being raised in households that preach ignorance, and intolerance. What kind of hatred is being brainwashed into those children?
I think this child will be well-loved and is very lucky indeed.
Brandy, I don’t appreciate being called a ‘closed minded bigot’. I find this whole story a very sad and disturbing commentary on the world today. That doesn’t make me a bigot or closed minded. It means I have a different viewpoint than yours.
It’s hypocrisy to call someone ‘close-minded’ just because they don’t agree with you. Please, get off your high horse and open YOUR mind. And as far as the child being ‘very lucky indeed’ is yet to be seen.
Sorry if I offend.
EW, why is “healthy” in quotes? I agree with Brandy that it seems that you are making assumptions with no explanation.
The hormones are the issue,hence the “healthy” in quotes. Too much estrogen (or testosterone) can lead to cancers.
Thomas&his spouse (I’m being gender-neutral) seem like a nice enough couple. After all, there are plenty of dysfunctional HETEROSEXUAL households. Like that polygamist compound in Texas. Children are being born from heterosexual couples there, but to pubescent girls,in an atmosphere of abuse.
There is nothing amazing about this pregnancy. It is strange and socially unique in that the carrier of the baby is also going to be assuming the role of father after the baby is born. Let’s not overlook that the pregnany “man” was born a woman–with all the associated reproductive organs. Cosmetically, she chose to look like a man and hormonally she chose to take drugs to become more masculine. However, she was born a woman and therefore, she is a woman who looks like a man giving birth to a baby. There is nothing special about that.
I think that healthy is in quotes because it’s a direct quote (albeit a short one) from the doctor in charge of the case.