Strange But True

I'm sure everyone has heard of the man who is actually a woman and has become artificially inseminated? Weird huh? This may be one of the strangest stories I've ever heard. I have no issues with being transgendered. It's okay if you feel like you are trapped in the wrong body, but if you really believe you should have been born a man, why not complete the process and fully become a man anatomically. If you believe you are a man, why do you want to have a baby? That's the role of a female. This story just boggles me. I can't seem to grasp the rationale behind the path this couple has taken. I understand the "real" female in the relationship couldn't get pregnant for some reason but why didn't they just adopt or use a surrogate? Does he/she plan on going back to being a "man" once the child is born and allowing the wife to play the mother role? I can just imagine the issues this child will face growing up and it's all because the parents had to sensationalize the experience. They could have went about this a little better for the sake of the child. All of this attention and publicity may not faze the couple, but are they thinking about the teasing this child will experience growing up once his peers find out his "mother" is actually his father. I hope they are ready to pay for some serious therapy.

This issue is so weird and bizarre that the media is eating it up, even Oprah is caught up in all the sensationalism. Why would this couple subject themselves to all this attention. Apparently they have a nice home and are business owners, so they live a decent life and aren't starving for money. Maybe they are attention whores, because that is the only reason I can see that would explain why they felt the need to may this public. They knew this was not a "normal" thing t do. Hell, their relationship isn't even viewed as normal to begin with and to go and add to it, you have to be looking for attention. It's not like they didn't know what would happen once this story got out. Why subject your family to all the ridicule and hateful comments. And why subject your child to it? The main goal of any parent is to protect and love your child. So why put a child in a position where he/she may be tormented based on your poor decision making? I feel bad for this child and hope that his/her parents live somewhere where people are accepting of this situation.

The scariest part of this to me is the possibility that the child may have health issues. I don't really know if taking hormones for years will have an affect on a fetus but I'm sure it has to be a possibility. This is the main reason I don't understand why this couple didn't use a surrogate? It would have been safer for the baby and without the ridicule. This story is just too strange for me.