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    Thursday 11 December 2008

    "...every day my confusion grows..."

    I'm confused.

    I'm watching this programme about the first pregnant man, and the thing that strikes me is that the man appears to be a woman who has undergone some hormone therapy as the initial part of a sex change operation; but the operation has not yet taken place, and s/he appears to still have all of their female reproductive organs intact.

    I may be being really naive, or daft, or missing out on a really important point; but in what way is this the first pregnant man?

    I'd really be happy if someone could clear up my confusion on this.

    Cheers!


    Edit: okay. So I know that with gender reassignment a person can take the opposite gender to that which they were born with; but in this specific case this process had not been completed. They still had all their female reproductive organs. Thus, from a purely biological perspective; she was a female. I just can't see it any other way...

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