Sunday, April 6, 2008

My Father is Really My Mother

Did anybody see Thomas a transgendered pregnant man that was on "Oprah" to talk about the the upcoming birth. Thomas kept his female reproductive organs so one day he could have children. Nancy, his wife, shared their excitement and their nerves over the impending birth. Thomas and her talked about what happened to make this possible. They had trouble finding a doctor willing to take Thomas. Da. They finally found one and then used a sperm donor. Nancy delivered the sperm to Thomas at home. And there was no details on that subject, although I would have loved to hear them. Thomas, went off of testosterone two years beforehand so he could get pregnant. However, the testosterone, he tells a curious Oprah, had over the years enlarged his clitoris into a small penis, enabling him to have intercourse with his wife. Well isn't that special. What's next roosters laying eggs, or a women president. Everything is just turned up side down. It's like living in the bizarro world.

This brings up a interesting situation that I ran into this week. While I was visiting my mother in law in her room at the nursing home. We were watching the Oprah show, with Thomas and his wife, when a nurse came into the room, that my mother in law also shares with another women, to give the roommate some medication. So I say to this nurse "Did you see the story about the man who is having a baby"? I ,in the crazy world that I live in, expected a light hearted reply, but nooooooooooo. She stated, quite sternly, that he was not a man and that it was a prophesy in the bible that things like this will signal the start of the apocalypse. That's a light hearted answer to my question. So I said "Do I have enough time to get my papers in order before the apocalypse" and will there be a spin class in hell. No I didn't say a thing, what can you say. "Yea, the apocalypse, the apocalypse rules man". You know something looking at both the nurse and Thomas I don't know which one is more bizarre.

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3 comments:

Farf's Girl said...

And there went my breakfast.
I think this "guy" is just in search of his 15 minutes of fame. Its sick and its sad.

Anonymous said...

Okay, the "guy" has issues and I wish he/she had chosen to deal with them in private, but I guess one of his/her issues if flaunting what he/she is and did. (They may need to invent new pronouns for this individual/nutjob.)

Oh, it’s a good thing they left his/her female parts to give the baby an exit strategy! I have been told of the pain involved in a man passing a kidney stone the size of a pea and babies are so so much bigger!

However, I am more interested in the nurse. I thought Maine was a bastion of sanity. I thought that those on the fringe just froze to death, but no, they are alive and well (or predicting Hell) in your happy part of the world. What’s up with that!

Toots said...

I think their reason for making it public was for the money. Did you hear them also say on Oprah that they cannot run their business anymore?

The nurse in the story is a traveling nurse NOT from Maine and she is a nutjob.