Fandom has ruined me.

[apocalypsos]

Okay, the story of the pregnant transgendered guy? You know, I totally get how it works, I think it's great, and I wish him and his wife luck, 'cause people are already acting like idiots about it.

But I swear to God, every time I see the photo of him posing shirtless all I can think is, "That is a really good manip. What fandom is that from?"

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[squee1123.livejournal.com]

haha, i think i would too. i dont know if ive even heard about that yet, actually.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Here's the link to the story from the Advocate story. And he and his wife are going to be on Oprah tomorrow.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

He's not even the first. I read about FTMs having babies years ago (one was a couple who started out as lesbians. After they both transitioned, one had a baby boy.) And Michael Thomas Ford talked about FTMs he knew keeping their uteruses in case they wanted to reproduce ten years ago.

[ninasis.livejournal.com]

Oh God, ME TOO! I don't know if you were ever involved in The Sentinel fandom, but people did these horrible manips of Blair all knocked up - he might even have been an elf as well...or I could be mixing up that one and another horrible mpreg manip of Legolas from LoTR. Um. Anyway...every time I see the photo of the pregnant transgendered guy I can't help thinking of those horrible, horrible manips.

Fandom FTW!

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

he might even have been an elf as well.

Yes, there were many many Pregnant Elf Blair stories. I have the zines to prove it ;)

[scary-being-me.livejournal.com]

I wish the child luck.

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA Yeah. I've seen the pictures, and yeah.

I wonder if RL is considered canon in this case?

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I personally wonder how long it will be until that pic has 1000 different faces manniped up on top of it?

[namey.livejournal.com]

That is a really good manip.

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...exactly.

[umetnica.livejournal.com]

You are not alone in thinking that.

[levi.livejournal.com]

As a transguy, I am less than thrilled that he is all over the media. This will most likely make it harder for other transpeople to get their documents changed (because it isn't hard enough now, or something. Also, it's hard enough to get people to refer to us with the proper pronouns and stuff, this will not help.

Another issue I have is that there are no reports on what effects the testosterone will have on the baby, and personally I would never take that chance.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

He isn't taking his testosterone right now - he wasn't ovulating while he took it, and he isn't taking it while pregnant.

I stopped taking my bimonthly testosterone injections. It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle, so this wasn’t a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months, and I didn’t have to take any exogenous estrogen, progesterone, or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy.

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On successfully getting pregnant a second time, we are proud to announce that this pregnancy is free of complications and our baby girl has a clean bill of health. We are happily awaiting her birth, with an estimated due date of July 3, 2008.


Although I know some people will criticize it, I think it's kind of lovely - too often we see transgender men in the media for horrible events such as bashings or ovarian cancer [see: Southern Comfort, which is a touching but seriously depressing movie]. This is beautiful and life-affirming.

As a side note, the idea of "my own surrogate" makes me think of seahorse imagery ;) I wish all men could have the option of bearing, or even surrogating, children...I think it would even the playing field/notions of "roles"... as well as bring families closer together.