Hey, It Happened To Arnold Schwarzenegger

What comes to mind when you see this headline? Oregon Man Says He’s Pregnant

Well, I thought, wow, what a crazy man, I must click on this headline! Was he abducted by aliens or just plain crazy? So click I did, only to be told in the second paragraph that hey, maybe the headline is slightly misleading, he is actually transgendered, and was born a woman and still has female sex organs.

Normally, having the word transgendered in a headline is golden for Web hits, but in this case, the given headline was much more intriguing than “Transgendered Woman Says She’s Pregnant.” That would just be way too obvious and to the point, besides it wouldn’t have made the news anyway. Who would click on that? Women get pregnant all the time. Yawn, I want a misleading headline!

All of this doesn’t even get into the article itself, which after reading all the way through made me really sad. This man and his wife (who is herself unable to have children) cannot find a doctor willing to help. A co-worker of mine decried that this is his own fault for choosing to “screw with his body” and a doctor can choose to avoid a malpractice lawsuit. I couldn't believe this person honestly thinks that because this man made certain decisions, he and his child are unworthy of medical care.

I will be the first to say that I do not understand the decision this man made, but I hardly feel it is my place to judge, nor am I certain that a sex change is a choice. There are so many factors at work in the human body and sexuality is one of those things that NO ONE can really explain or understand.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is, maybe, if this man had received abstinence only sex education, we wouldn't have this problem...