It took Nadya Suleman eight children to sell a television show (that has yet to be picked up). It might take memoirist Thomas Beatie only two.
The “Pregnant Man,” who in June gave birth to he and wife Nancy’s second child, is pitching a reality series to Oxygen and TLC, says Gatecrasher. With the working title Meet the Beaties, the show would “feature Tracy/Thomas’ breast-removal surgery and how Beatie, along with wife, Nancy, and children Susan and Austin, are just a normal family.”
Hell, we could play a normal family for five figures an episode.
Just don’t fall into the trap Suleman did: Make sure you’re not violating child labor laws by filming the kids during off-hours.
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sweetdog
Personally, I find the whole Thomas Beatie story rather bizarre. I question why a person who was having gender-identity issues, would change his sex to a male and THEN have a baby. Why didn’t he impregnate his wife by artificial insemination. It seems like he was only trying to be the first man who ever gave birth to a child, but in reality he isn’t. Someone please explain to me his thought process in this strange relationship. I have no intention of waiting for or watching a reality show.
villager
@sweetdog
i think they tried with the wife and she couldn’t get pregnant and since he still had the uterus…
clairey
@sweetdog I think it wasn’t possible for his wife to get pregnant, I’m not sure though. He kept his reproductive organs, so that they would be able to have kids, but I do remember from interviews he said he always wanted to give birth, he explained it on Oprah.
I actually give them credit for what they are doing for the community and in terms of visibility. This will probably be an important show in that aspect. But otherwise reality TV should just take a one way ticket to some the land of no return.
Mike L.
She couldn’t get pregnant she’d gone through two miscarriages I believe. And Tom had decided that he would not have his uterus removed because he wanted to have the opportunity to someday have children, and did not see pregnancy as an only feminine womanly thing to do, but rather a human desire and right to have; Tom doesn’t see pregnancy as making him any less of a man, his wife will still be the mother and he the father, he only gave birth to their children.
I feel sad when people in our own community are too busy drinking, partying, and fucking to learn more about ourselfs our joint cause or even do something about it. Stop being so ignorant people, there is no real norm, we’re all human; sexual attraction, physical identity, and parental identity are all different facets of what we are, they don’t all always have to match what we think should be normal. I trully believe Tom made a great argument for why he had the children and kept his uterus as well as parental roles they have. I think it would be cute for them to make a book about the sea horse, how the father carries the babies to term
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TANK
ODDITY!
bob
@Mike L. – well said!!
Mark Snyder
Like other gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight headed families, transgender people may have children through a variety of means, including kinship care, adoption, donor insemination, sperm donation, pregnancy, surrogacy, and/or birth of a child before coming out as transgender. Transgender women (male-to-female) may decide to parent a child using their own sperm. If their reproductive systems may be impacted by surgical transition, they can save their sperm pre-transition so that they can biologically parent a child in the future. Transgender men (female-to-male) may choose to become pregnant if they have their uterus, or they may save their eggs for their partner or surrogate to carry. There are also some parents who identify as genderqueer or otherwise outside the confines male/female terminology. – Our Family Coalition
osocubano
Spare me!
Republican
Assuming it’s even picked up, there is no way this show will do as well as Jon & Kate + 8. People might tune in for the first episode to see what all the fuss is about, but the good ratings won’t last long. With multiples, you can have interesting and unique storylines every week, but the same doesn’t hold for this situation.