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@Ernie's last post, I don't know what to say but "Bravo"! We grow up with very rigid views of what abstract concepts (such as gender) should be and that makes it difficult for even the most intelligent and educated of us to understand anything that deviants from those concepts. While there is a "widely" accepted view of what gender and other societial roles "should" mean, human identities just aren't that black and white.

To reiterate an earlier point, While I realize gender is far more to do with biology and society than hair color, I don't expect someone who dyed his or her hair to act "like their hair color" so I don't apply the same expectations to trans, bi, whatever gendered individuals. Everyone has a right to form their own identity regardless of how others feel about it.

This sort of issue really lets transphobia rear its ugly head.

There is absolutely no sense in referring to someone socially using pronouns based on their current genitals or chromosomal makeup. If that man wasn't pregnant, I'd bet all the people in GD who are going "that's a girl no matter what" would have thought he was a man and referred to him as such. Until it becomes acceptable for everyone to place their hands inside the undergarments of others to determine their genitals and therefore decide which pronouns to use for them (he vs. she), I don't understand why people can't just refer to someone as the sex they appear as.

Pregnant man is accurate, though I don't think he is biologically male.

I would have thought the people would have been happy, after all the poor guys wife can't have a child so he is carrying one? That's incredible of him.

Surely the medical staff would be pleased too, after all it shows evidence that a transgerndered man can carry a child to term even after a long course of testosterone? This could bring hope to childless transgendered couples if the doctors weren't such judgemental ********.