Of transgender males and motherhood [blog]

[Shana A]

Of transgender males and motherhood

Posted by squarepeg at 09:01 on 26 Mar 2008

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/squarepeg/march_2008/of_transgender_males_and_motherhood.htm

There is a disturbing story in today's Telegraph, with a link to a Los Angeles magazine that first published the story, about a so-called "transgender male" who is, it seems, twenty two weeks pregnant. It seems that someone who was to all intents and purposes born a woman decided that she wanted to become a man, and so undertook hormone treatment and "chest reconstruction" and no more– which is, it seems, enough in America to make her "legally male" and thus able to marry another woman.