Salon.com – By Thomas Rogers
Thomas Beatie brought us a media circus and late-night punch lines. But there’s something missing, say some transgender advocates — more respect.
By the time Thomas Beatie, “the Pregnant Man,” strode across Oprah Winfrey’s stage on April 3, his story had already become a worldwide phenomenon. Beatie — a transgendered man who was born a woman and became pregnant through artificial insemination — had captured headlines, and worldwide attention, in the preceding weeks. On the show, Oprah clutched Beatie’s belly like a touchy aunt and asked him nosy questions about his family, his sex life and the appearance of his clitoris. (“It looks like a penis,” he answered, uncomfortably.)