{"id":652,"date":"2008-07-04T07:37:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-09-28T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T13:33:01","slug":"what-makes-her-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/what-makes-her-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Her a &#8220;Man&#8221;?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s news, this report of people playing with words and culture and other such stuff:<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080704\/ts_afp\/usfamilypregnancytransgender_080704074329\">Pregnant man gives birth to girl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy, attracted worldwide attention in April after revealing his pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old gave birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, on June 29, <i>People Magazine<\/i> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing different about me is that I cant breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers dont,&#8221; the magazine quoted him as saying.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;d say her (because that&#8217;s what she is, folks!) &#8220;gender realignment&#8221; surgery hardly qualifies as a success.<\/p>\n<p>She had chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy &#8212; and that makes her legally male?!<\/p>\n<p>She decided to keep her female reproductive organs&#8230;and she&#8217;s still considered a man?!<\/p>\n<p>Please.<\/p>\n<p>And people still accept the whole charade.<\/p>\n<p>OK.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s news, this report of people playing with words and culture and other such stuff: Pregnant man gives birth to girl A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep &#8230; <a title=\"What Makes Her a &#8220;Man&#8221;?!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/what-makes-her-a-man\/\" aria-label=\"More on What Makes Her a &#8220;Man&#8221;?!\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,395,7],"tags":[630,24],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-dumb-and-such","category-suspension-of-disbelief","tag-culture","tag-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}