I may have missed a post somewher, but I don’t see anyone being intolerant of gay couples here, or even of gay couples having children. Most of us are simply saying there’s not a story here. A woman is having a baby. Big deal.

As for feeling sorry for the child, how could you not? The kid’s birth parent clearly has gender identification issues, and, unlike most people, has made a public spectacle out of those issues, necessarily dragging the child into it. It’s gonna be a hard row to hoe for that kid, even if the parents are the most loving, nurturing parents in the world.

I know you may think that this is a stretch… but me and my wife are an interracial couple. My parents were an interracial couple. But interracial couples weren’t always treated the same in this country as they are now. And people in the past would have the EXACT same responses to us as you guys have towards same sex couples: “It’s unnatural”, “I feel sorry for their kids”, “what will their children be? They won’t be accepted in this society” (this last one still happens today).

This kind of fast, hard intolerance really pisses me off.

Wow, how incredibly intuitive…

If she wanted to be a man, she shouldn’t be having a baby. Like I said, “freakshow” is the best word for this – should be a circus act.

I feel for the kid.

Vic

I’m sure someone’s waiting to call me gay for knowing this, or pointing this out, but it’s proven physical traits in people suffering from gender dysphoria, their physicality is different from you or I.

Fair enough–there’s a difference between sex and gender. That doesn’t make this any more of a story. There are masculine women out there who have been having babies for centuries. The “story” seems to be that “a man is having a baby.” Most people will infer that the documentarians are talking about sex, not gender.

So the question, I guess, is this: do the terms “man” and “woman” refer to sex or gender?