Or that some of us live in areas where you still CAN.

You people need to re-evaluate your priorities and remember that whether you identify as gay, trans, genderqueer or some other thing, WE ARE ALL QUEER TOGETHER. Can we possibly stick up for each other once in awhile, or do we all have to act like bitchy queens in the dressing room on a Saturday night?

As a movement, we will never succede if we are tearing our own members apart when they don’t tow a specific line.

The bottom line for me here is they are bringing a beautiful little girl(they identified the sex) into the world. The want to share their story, fine. I will probably buy his book, and proudly refer to him by his prefered gender!

It wasn’t until the later half of Oprah that a book was mentioned. At it was the neighbor that mentioned it..NOT BEATTIE.

Let’s not forget that not too long ago, SCIENCE called mentally healthy love between two women or two men impossible/wrong/disgusting. I am ashamed by how some members of the gay community, whether the consider trans to be members thereof or not, have been treating this case. It’s not that Beatty has the audacity to come forward with his story, but rather that he has the courage to. Arguments like ‘it sets back our movement’ or ‘it makes me uncomfortable’ parallel those of the Christian right or of self-hating homosexuals. Again, shame on all of you who have condemned Beatty, you’d do well to take some time to reflect on your own journey of self-acceptance before you attack his.

This whole situation just doesn’t pass the smell test. And what stinks the loudest is the the money this so-called “pregnant man” and her partner are trying to make by exploiting the pain and suffering real transgendered people go through as they try to gain acceptance and understanding both within themselves and society.

PS. What I find especially touching is the Demi Moore-esgue photo of a naked, pregnant, mustachioed Beatie holding her with-child stomach while flashing a hairy armpit and exposing her surgically altered chest. I’m sure it wasn’t meant to stir up controversy in order to sell books at all. Nice publicity photo.

Although once MSNBC attacked, they attacked all of us. GLAAD needs to speak out if they’re worth anything.

And here’s the cotton-candy version: the spiritual world doesn’t actually acknowledge gender so why don’t we just focus on who’s on top in our bedroom and keep our noses out of our friends’ gender stuff?

In my opinion, the real issue everyone is so disturbed about is that gender and sexuality are colliding with biology, three subjects that have been married since who knows when. Besides all the media hoopla and perhaps impure motives, the thing that really strikes fear and anger in most people gay and straight is that the labels we’ve used so much to build laws for equality are crumbling down. These labels that we feel protect us create inclusivity and alienate members of the human race who just plain don’t fit into any label. Its not a sideshow, its life on screen.

I don’t know. I’m just 25.

those who have been judged should be the last to accost someone who they perceive to be ‘different’.

Meanwhile, there are probably several people like him who are having kids q u i e t l y.

YET… two “regular” men or women still can’t marry.

What a fucking joke.

The more I read, the more I think this is much ado about nothing. Literally, nothing. Thomas wanted to be treated like a man, not transgendered. Fine. He had breast reduction and took hormones. Fine. He stopped the hormones, and is now pregnant. Fine.

That doesn’t make him a “pregnant man.” That doesn’t even make him a pregnant FTM, as he pretty much kept all his original female equipment.

He identifies as a man, but now he ‘s pregnant. This has happened before. Many times, just not on the Oprah show. There is no news here, except for that which they themselves have created.

What if we don’t consider ourselves members of the “queer” community?

http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

As for MSNBC’s failure to issue a statement (let alone an apology)? Pretty ballsy.