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let us be just happy for their brand new baby 
WOOOW!!!INCREDIBLE
kimmy:
Yes, you're right. After all, they're just like any other couple trying to have a normal family life.
moneyblog:
Thanks for dropping by. Hope to see you back soon.
He/she is half-Filipino? Well, what about that....we're on the Guiness map again. So soon after that biggest/longest ihaw-ihawan too.
i wish real man can give birth na talaga hehehe.. pinoy pala siya ha coooool atlist pinoy na naman ang nauna hehehe..
teka bat nga ba may buhok xa sa leki leki if girl xa dati? kasma ba sa inoperahan yan? :D
dondi tiples
Yes, she's half Pinoy/Pinay. She used to be Tracy Lagondino from Hawaii. In fact. I read somewhere that she was even a Miss Teen Hawaii finalist!
joanjoyce:
Kasama siguro yun sa hormone injections. Nabasa ko kasi dati na kasama sa effects ng male hormone injections ay yung paglaki ng boses, pagtubo ng bigote at siyempre kasama dun yung sa kili2>
so he/she's a mother and a father in one + another mother
but amazing what technology can do nowadays.
dimaks:
Yup, what else can happen in the next few years? Nakakatakot isipin. On the other hand, they breakthroughs may one day hep humankind.
You know, I'm just really pleased that this couple were able to have a baby.
I still find it hard to accept that s/he is a MAN having a baby, since he still has all the female internal organs. I get that he is a man inside his head, but his body kinda proves different.
Does that make sense?
veronica:
I understand your confusion as I am kinda confused about it myself. I just try not to think about it too much. The important thing is they're happy.
I am a transgendered man, like Thomas. I just want to clear up a bit of detail about physically transitioning from female to male.
First of all, it is not a simple "sex change" and it's over.
First there is therapy for several months, until your therapist is confident about your transgendered status and clean bill of mental health otherwise.
Then there are the hormones that cannot be prescribed unless the therapist writes a recommendation letter. A transperson is on these hormones for the rest of their lives. (Thomas stopped hormones in order to conceive a child. Testosterone will stop the monthly cycle.)
Then the surgeries, if we can even afford them without the aid of health insurance... Usually, it is the chest first, to remove the breasts that should never have been there in the first place.
It is very rare that transmen get "lower" surgery, because it is extremely expensive, and many feel that the result is not worth the pain and expense, and are waiting for better, more functional options. (Like myself.)
This is a process that takes years and years, and is why it is called "transition" and not just a "sex change". I've only ever heard the latter term used outside of the trans and medical community because of misconceptions that it's "snip snip, done". It's a very long, difficult process; we would not be doing it if we didn't not believe down to the centre of our souls that this is right; one does not wake up and say "Gosh, I think I'll be a man today."
I know it is hard for people to understand what it's like to not be right inside your own body... But I would not wish it upon anyone, not even my worst enemy. I would not wish them the mental anguish, the physical pain, the social awkwardness, the prejudice, the rejection, the violence, and the political and social injustice.
Also: Thomas is not the first. I have known other transmen who have also given birth after they had started physically transitioning. This is not new.
bastian:
Thanks for that info. I hope my readers were enlightened as well. I have known one or two transgenders here but they rarely talk about their situation openly, at least not to mere acquaintances like me.
Thanks.
Bastion, thanks for that info. I was wondering how he had managed to give birth 'naturally' if he had had gender reassignment surgery. Makes alot more sense now.
And wow that he isn't the first! But with all the media attention he has received (and no doubt, his family will continue to receive) I can see why other men kept their births quiet.
Cheers.
veronica:
I agree with you. If I were in their place, I'd keep all of this as secret as possible lest I be looked upon as a freak show. But then again, different strokes for different folks. I'm sure Mr. Beatie has his reasons for coming out with this.
Bastian....whats ur nationality?
monaco: You're welcome. That was my aim, to give people an insight to situations like Thomas's and my own. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Veronica: This is very true. Thomas is not the first to give birth, but he's the first to bring it into the public eye on such a wide scale. With all the backlash he's gotten, it becomes very clear that this country and world have a long way to go before they understand what it's like to be transgendered and to still want a family even so. Many members of the FTM (female-to-male transgendered) community are actually angry with Thomas, saying he's made a media spectacle out of our situation. On the contrary, I'm glad he's brought it into the public eye in some ways, and find him brave, wanting to educate and make people aware that people like us do exist, and can have families. I just wish that people didn't find us to be abominations, or deviants, or "ruining what god gave us", because we're certainly not. I don't see these same people complaining about curing other illnesses being against god's intentions, for instance. If they could feel what we have felt, known the anguish of every day feeling completely and pervasively -wrong- with their physical existence... Only then might they understand what it's like.
Khoy2: I'm an American, and becoming less proud of this fact every day.
oh wow! he already gave birth already! (i'm so behind na talaga!). i wish them all the best!
and thanks to bastian for the info. its such a shame that people have so many negative feelings toward this.
by itself, giving birth is already a huge miracle. what more by a man? god works in wondrous ways.
meeya:
Your cable and internet non-connection is taking its toll. Nahuhuli ka na sa balita. He he.
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