The interesting thing about this story for me (in a bleak, losing faith in human nature sense of the word "interesting") has been the response to this man's pregnancy from the media. The sheer ignorance has been disturbing. You have Faux News declaring it a hoax (why on Earth would it be a hoax?), the British press putting Beatie's pronoun in scare quotes, and lots of nonsense being talked about what is a fairly simple, if unusual, situation. It's been very disheartening to watch grown adults apparantly wrestling with the idea that having facial hair does not render one incapable of childbirth.
Then you have people like Margaret Somerville (noted for having got her knickers in a twist over gay marriage in the past) proclaiming this as a disaster for civilisation. Oh no a planned pregancy with two loving parents, what a social catastrophe.
"It's a very touchy thing, this deconstruction of our biological reality..." lol wut? "Deconstruction of our biological reality"? Oh no, our biological reality is deconstructing! Now there's going to be seven-headed calfs and rains of frogs! Rivers of tofu! Typhoons of badgers! Marsupials of suspicious demenour!
(On a personal note the picture made me very envious. Like one of my friends said, five months gone and he's *still* got a better physique than me...)
