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1. 

   4/02/08

   globalgirl

   Of course not.
   
   The "man" is a woman biologically. However, she took hormone therapy and stopped taking testosterone so she could get pregnant. So, she is now a he - a transgendered male.
   
   www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/wpregnant101.xml

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      4/04/08

      india901

      I did not know all that about him thanks for sharing the info
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   4/04/08

   starwish

   no, this is bull.

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3. 

   4/04/08

   Shiley

   globalgirl thanks for clearing that up. I saw the topic and I said to myself what? noooo...

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4. 

   4/04/08

   DrowseyMonkey

   He's transgendered, so legally he's a man, but biologically he's female. As long as they're happy & raise the child with love ... that's all that matters.

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5. 

   4/04/08

   timethief

   Hello! This is not a case of a "man" being pregnant. It's a case of sensationalized reportage that appeals to the dull of wit.
   
   She, who was born with a womb, fallopian tubes and ovaries is a woman, who had her breasts surgically removed. A woman is pregnant -- so what.
   
   P.S. Thanks to globalgirl for posting the link.

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   4/04/08

   ender

   there were some experiments in the ... i wanna say early 90s where a medical team insisted that they could (and had) implanted a baby inside a specially created "pouch" in a man's abdomen. however, i recall reading only one newspaper article about it (yes, a real newspaper, not a tabloid) - i never did see anything about the outcome. i just remember that the wife was completely incapable of even carrying the baby and the couple did not want to involve any kind of surrogate outside the family.
   
   i always rather suspected it was a group of shady medicos just having a put-on.

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7. 

   4/04/08

   Shiley

   I know a man can breast feed. I think they give him something.

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      4/04/08

      Shiley

      www.unassistedchildbirth.com/miscarticl www.babycenter.com/404_can-men-breastfeed_8824.bces/milkmen.html
      
      
      here are a couple of sites on that. The second one is a parenting mag.
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      4/04/08

      daniel23

      that is f*cked up!
8. 

   4/04/08

   timethief

   @ender
   Any man who would go to that extent of having a child implanted into his abdomen is not IMO primarily suffering from an "infertility" problem. I say that the primary health problem is situated between their ears.

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      4/04/08

      ender

      the man was healthy, the woman was not, in that particular case. (if, of course, it was actually true)
9. 

   4/04/08

   Norski

   I've had six, four surviving, with considerable help from my wife.
   
   That's not what you're talking about, of course.

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10. 

    4/04/08

    Theresa111

    Male sea horses are the only male species known to provide the natural role of birth giver.

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11. 

    4/04/08

    daniel23

    no.

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12. 

    4/04/08

    Donlewis

    He can have one of mine - on certain days.

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       4/04/08

       Norski

       
13. 

    4/04/08

    katknit

    comment removed by the community.

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14. 

    4/04/08

    JeanR

    Anyone who'd go through the long and painful process of female-to-male or male-to-female trans gender changes and becomes legally the opposite sex than they were born, deserves compassion. No one does that on a whim. They are almost always wired in their brains differently than the gender parts they were born with. This case is certainly a first but it won't be the last as the medical community learns more about how sexual identity is assigned---some times erroneously---in the womb, etc.

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    4/04/08

    timethief

    I'm not suggesting the woman who is pregnant and preparing to give birth did anything on a whim. One does not have breasts surgically removed, appendages added and their body flooded with hormones on a whim. What I am suggesting is that the way this is being spun in the news is deceptive and sensationalized.
    
    I also wonder how the child resulting from this sensationalized situation will feel about the media coverage of his/hers mother's period of gestation and the birth.
    
    My compassion is focused on the child, who once born, will likely be adorning the cover of National Enquirer.
    
    Hopefully, the child will not become a "poster child" for the paparazzi and/or the transexual community so he/she can actually enjoy a real and actual childhood. I also hope that the hormone flooding his/her mother went through will not compromise the child's sexual identity or health in later life.

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       4/04/08

       daniel23

       I think it would really screw up a kid. It's not natural!
16. 

    4/04/08

    JeanR

    Timethief:
    
    People worried about the impact on the first test tube babies, too, because that was---at the time of the first ones---said to be "unnatural." In today's fast moving world where we have a hard time keeping up with "medical miracles" I doubt that by the time this child is older no one will care about his/her unusual birth.
    
    Your point about the flooding of hormones given to create the pregnancy and how it might compromise the child is a valid one. I can only assume/hope they got expert advice before going forward with this.

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       4/04/08

       daniel23

       "People worried about the impact on the first test tube babies, too, because that was---at the time of the first ones---said to be "unnatural.""
       
       It is unnatural, very weird, and the world would be a better place without the practice.
17. 

    4/04/08

    clioandme

    Without threads like this one on BlogCatalog, I would miss out on such "important" stories. I don't think I'd feel deprived, but who knows.

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    1. 

       4/05/08

       india901

       This may not be important but it's truly entertaing...
18. 

    4/05/08

    lcarroll30

    I totally agree, as long as the child is happy then I'm okay with the couple raising the child.
    
    www.unuradio.com
    www.myspace.com/unuradio

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19. 

    4/05/08

    Donlewis

    Well of course you can get the definitive word on this situation right here:
    
    humorium.blogspot.com/2008/04/calling-spade-shovel.html
    
    Isn't this a fortunate coincidence?

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20. 

    4/05/08

    sayeeth

    This has to be the weirdest subject to hit the Internet since the Internet itself. So much hype has been going around this story. There is no hard evidence that this is even real and that the tests conducted are even real. Anything can be conjured up to be 'true' these days. Probably just a story for some major propaganda and to get the public involved. It sounds massively insane and these radical scientists are thriving on people like us. They need people to actually discuss such issues to create more hype about it. Theoretically speaking, some of their ideas/ideals are not just their own manifestation but are some that certain human beings have 'always wanted' so they're satisfying their needs for a sum of money. That aside, why do you think the Chinese dude Mr Lee went on Oprah? Simple. To get the word out and empathy (more like sympathy and bs love) so that more people will talk about it and embrace/condemn him. Publicity stunt. And as much as Oprah has done her fair share of good for society, such publicity is certainly unnecessary, especially for children, and it will only create more rumors surrounding this story. Sure, we can all raise our opinions and views on the standing issue but theoretically it isn't going to change anything drastically by discussing about it here or anywhere else for that matter. Unless people physically vote down against such weird experiments, these people will continue to size up such acts of i-don't-know-what-to-call-them. Seems all like some melodramatic reality tv to me with an added boost of salt.
    
    If these couples really want to have their kids in whatever fashion, please, for the love of humanity, keep it under the sheets. No need to publicize. What use is this bringing us by going public? Sure, we adults can somehow adjust our mentality to accept such things but how are we to explain such 'unnatural acts' to our young ones? Isn't such events going to steer them into a different path as compared to what they deem possible and acceptable? Wouldn't this alter their state of mind even further and cause conflict in their heads. The world has enough problems already. We are just finding ways and means to pile them up together. Hasn't anyone though of this?
    
    To make the issue even more ridiculous, more the Ex-Man and Mr. Lee are only concerned about how they have always wanted to have a baby and how fulfilling it will be for them as its their lifelong dream, blah blah blah. Once again, some of us have truly showcased that we are indeed the selfish species and that we only care for ourselves. Absolutely no one in their silly experiment seem overly concerned about the children that are going to come into existence and how they will grow up in 'Strangeland'. Once again, the children are left to suffer. When will these people ever, ever think of the children? Now bear in mind that I am pretty open to bi/transgender relationships but anything concerning and putting the survival and livelihood of children at stake is something I'd rather not tolerate.

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