Letters to the Editor
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Happy to explain it (no extra charge)
"Why is Thomas Beattie not a legitimate transgender person" was the question. I think it is because Beattie changed his outward appearance and his legal status, asking society to view him as a man -- and when we complied, he went and did the most absolutely and uniquely feminine thing it is possible to do (become pregnant). In doing so, he undid much of the hormonal treatment he had originally undergone to appear as a man.
I think this only buttresses my belief that transgender surgery is a kind of fakery, like claiming the Emperor is wearing a beautiful suit of clothing when in fact he is naked. Beattie is no more a man than I am -- "he" is a woman who has had his breasts cut off surgically and who has taken hormones to lower his voice and grow some facial hair.
I know several women who have had double masectomies -- not by choice but because of breast cancer -- and I have a couple of elderly aunts with bristley mustaches. Are they men? I think not.
In any way that matters, Beattie is a woman -- physically, genetically, and now (obviously) hormonally. One can only speculate as to the potential future damage to this unborn child who was gestated amidst large doses of male hormone given to satisfy his parent's whims.
Beattie's behavior seriously suggests that he/she will morph from woman to man and back to woman as situations (including money making opportunities) arise.
I also question why anyone serious about their transgendering would be so public, post such deliberately salacious photographs and allow the whole thing to be bandied about as "the pregnant man". It does indeed smack of opportunism and a chance to make money. It seems pretty obvious that a "tell all" book must be in the works.
Did Beattie really do this because of the desire for a child, when the couple could have adopted? Or was this a crass attempt to make money and get publicity by a neurotic individual who was obviously not serious about their transgendered status, especially given the circumstances and the fact that Beattie never went ahead with "bottom surgery".
It all seems planned, shoddy and very crass.