The only thing I see 'wrong' in this is that the poor baby won't have the option of nursing for real. But then a lot of babies (and moms) miss out on that by choice either due to vanity (implants) or unability to nurse (it's rough at first and you need to be patient, some never make it past the hump of no-milk to milk due to the stress of trying too hard). Bottle is a rough substitute (costs money, must be made = lack of sleep the first months, no antibodies etc).

Poor woman too, endo removed her uterus twenty years ago? Hack doc. They tried doing that to me too.

Other than that, all power to them. Shame they didn't go the route of smashing both their eggs together thus creating the genetic 50-50 of both parents, but a girl. (Eggs that fertilize other eggs only produce females)

(although I bet the two-egg thing is illegal or something, or superduperexpensive. Dammit, I think it's soooo coool!)

I'm impressed by his gender identity stability in the face of being pregnant, and frustrated at some of the doctors' reactions to working with him. It's not as if transmen are a new thing -- there have been cases of biological women living as men for centuries, with their biological gender only being revealed at death. This same prejudice of doctors has resulted in the death of at least one transman I've read about -- most transmen do not have internal sexual organs removed, and doctors are reluctant to treat them for maladies on the internal parts -- and, thus, they can still die of ovarian cancer.

I had two friends who later changed gender -- one female to male, one male to female. Both of them obviously felt that they were not born into the right gender. I ran into one of them recently, and my husband and I had dinner with him and his wife. I didn't tell my husband until after the dinner was over and we were in our hotel for the night that the male of the couple had been female when I met him. My husband would never have guessed it.

I read this a few days ago, and I found it fascinating. Transmen and -women are nothing new (either to society, as lleachie says, or to me personally), and yet I had never contemplated a transman carrying a child.

The picture of him (on this page) is a little mind-bending, in a good way. But it makes me so angry that so many people in the medical community refuse to provide care. That's inexcusable in medical professionals. More power to him and his wife for being secure in themselves and each other to fight through this to start their family.

I'm impressed by his gender identity stability in the face of being pregnant

Absolutely. That displays a very strong sense of gender identity.

it makes me so angry that so many people in the medical community refuse to provide care. That's inexcusable in medical professionals.

There are bigots in every field, of course.

There are bigots in every field, of course.

Sadly, you are very right. But refusing to provide medical treatment?
To me, that's a whole new level of bigotry.
Sigh.

Heh... that pic of him is only mind-bending if you know there's a kid in there. Otherwise he looks like me and a few of my friends, albeit slightly younger: just a guy with a big belly.

BP we call it "nursing a six pack" ;)