Has anyone

read the story in the Advocate about the FTM(Thomas Beatie) who is pregnant? OK so here's the deal. I don't necessarily like the fact that I am as conservative as I am. The truth is I am pretty darned conservative. I try to be forward thinking, progressive, open minded etc. I mean hello my family isn't exactly 1man+1woman+2.5 children=family. So what the heck is my deal? I just think if you are trans-gendered and you have the courage to transition GOOD for you. You legally change your sex and marry your girlfriend legally GOOD FOR YOU! Now you are a legally recognized heterosexual married couple. You are now able to rightfully exercise over 1,000 federally recognized laws and protections. GREAT! Now you decided that you and your wife are going to have a child and you decide to stop hormones that suppress the sex that you worked SO HARD TO DISPROVE legally to CARRY a child? W.T.F. I feel like this is an abuse of power. Decide are you a man or a woman? OK, you say that having a child is neither a male or female desire but a human desire. You will be Dad your wife will be MOM. But guess what? If a man were truly able to carry a child it wouldn't be in a uterus with his ovaries and tubes and his vagina wouldn't bleed. You go to such extreme lengths to prove you are not the woman who's body you were born into--you don't bleed for what was it 9years? Then you STOP the male hormones and encourage your OVARIES to function again and guess what---NOW YOU ARE A WOMAN AGAIN. But yet they are still legally married. I don't want to sound ignorant and small minded I'm sure this post will come across as so to some. I just don't get it. I just think its these sorts of things that get people riled up about same sex marriage and create such a great misunderstanding about the trans-gendered community. I'm annoyed. I'm posting this even though I'm embarrassed of myself for having this reaction. I don't want to feel this way and I'm not even sure exactly what my issue really is.