![]() ![]() A woman’s womb, and related hormonal cycles, has been trotted out as justification to say, keep women out of politics or to pay them less than their male counterpoints. ![]() The ability to bear children has been used to define (and confine) women for centuries. Having the capacity to carry a child inside has always been the domain of Woman, her sacred role on earth, the one and only realm which women retained control when matriarchal societies were replace by patriarchal oppression. Tricked. Because to them, a pregnant trans man simply wasn’t a man at all.įor eons, the ability to bear young has been viewed as essentially female. It was as though people preferred Beatie’s pregnancy defy the very laws of nature. People felt betrayed by his transsexuality. The vehemence in which people responded to that revelation was remarkable. ![]() Then people learned Beatie’s pregnancy was far from a miracle, scientific or otherwise. In contrast, Beatie was alternately portrayed as hoax, freak and miracle. Not since Christine Jorgenson's sex change, in 1951, had a transgender person so captivated the world. Of course, Jorgenson was embraced by both the media, who trumpeted her solider-turned-bombshell curves, and an adoring public. ![]()
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