If you've turned on the TV or surfed the news lately, it's hard to miss the press on the Beatie family and their children. Thomas Beatie, born female, became a male legally after taking hormone therapy and removing his breasts. His female partner inseminated him so that he could give birth to a child (and now a second child). It is wonderful that society is accepting a new and unusual situation as this one.
I can't help but wonder how pressured Mr. Beatie must have felt as a young woman to fit into a specific feminine role, that she decided to become male outwardly (at least from the waist up). We need to acknowledge that males and females have varying degrees and ranges of femininity/masculinity and different role needs. Had Mr. Beatie initially been accepted as a masculine female and remained female, a trinogamous relationship would have allowed the Beatie's to have the family they desired, naturally.
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