Mixed in with stories on cooking for the Fourth of July and how soldiers deployed in Iraq were spending their Independence Day, the July 4 "Good Morning America" managed to give nearly two full minutes to a story on Thomas Beatie, more commonly known as the "pregnant man," and "his" newly born daughter on Friday.
Unsurprisingly, the segment featured only a positive take on the situation, offering no sound bites questioning the normalcy of the child’s life. Reporter Ryan Owens touted, "The little girl's conception may have been complicated, but her parents insist her life now will be normal."
The designated "expert" of the segment, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, claimed:
What's astonishing about this particular pair is that they actually behave like a man and a woman in a very traditional marriage and will probably bring those roles to the family and the little girl will grow up like all little girls grow up, with a daddy and a mommy.
This one-sided take on the situation has been common in GMA’s reports on Beatie. In a March 26 interview with obstetrician Lisa Masterson who voiced support for Beatie’s pregnancy, GMA co-host Chris Cuomo gushed, "Oddity aside, biology aside, it is all about love of this child and as long as that's present, everything else is really going to be normal."
The transcript of the July 4 segment, which aired at 7:17 a.m., follows:
ONSCREEN GRAPHIC: "It's a girl!: Pregnant Man Gives Birth"
DAVID MUIR: We're going to turn now to a story that's made worldwide headlines. The pregnant man who you've likely heard so much about by now has given birth to a baby girl. Thomas Beatie was born a woman, changed gender to a man but kept her female organs, if you follow that, is now the father of a healthy girl born Sunday in Oregon. And ABC's Ryan Owens has the story this morning.
RYAN OWENS: The so-called pregnant man is now a parent. That's Thomas Beatie wearing a hood as he walks out of an Oregon hospital where on Sunday the 34 year old transgendered man born a woman gave birth to a healthy baby girl.
THOMAS BEATIE (from “Oprah”): I feel it's not a male or a female desire to want to have a child. It's a human desire and I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child.
OWENS: Three months ago, Beatie and his wife Nancy brought Oprah along on a doctor's appointment when they were assured their little girl would be healthy.
BEATIE: Now that we know that the pregnancy is healthy it's -- these are tears of joy.
OWENS: Beatie has been living as a man for years, even sporting a beard for his pregnancy pictures. But he kept his female reproductive organs so he could one day have a child. Nine months ago, his wife artificially inseminated him with sperm from a donor. The little girl's conception may have been complicated, but her parents insist her life now will be normal.
BEATIE'S WIFE: He's gonna be the father and I'm gonna be the mother.
HELEN FISHER, Chemistry.com: What's astonishing about this particular pair is that they actually behave like a man and a woman in a very traditional marriage and will probably bring those roles to the family and the little girl will grow up like all little girls grow up, with a daddy and a mommy.
OWENS: At least for now, the baby girl is being shielded from the glare of the spotlight, her parents apparently believing she deserves a little privacy after the very public, very unusual way she was brought into the world. For Good Morning America, Ryan Owens, ABC News, New York.


















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astonishing?!?
July 7, 2008 - 16:06 ET by i was just thinking"What's astonishing about this particular pair is that they actually behave like a man and a woman..."
No, what's astonishing is that the msm is CALLING her a man..." Men don't have wombs. Attaching an elephant's trunk to a giraffe doesn't make the giraffe an elephant.
Damn
July 7, 2008 - 16:21 ET by I.am.DILLIGAFYou beat me to it, as long as she is having a baby (which is to bad for the baby) she can never be a man. But of course she couldnt be anyway since she was born a woman, irregardless of how many operations she has or how long her beard grows. She is now and will always be a (woman)
Guns and Violence are not the answer but they are one solution to the problem== SARG
Best line from a movie to
July 7, 2008 - 20:21 ET by BDBest line from a movie to characterize this..."If this is normal, then normal is F*****d"
from Mr. Scott
July 7, 2008 - 19:26 ET by i was just thinking(Scotty to Capt. Kirk)... "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon."
"Come, come, Mr.
July 7, 2008 - 22:32 ET by Cureboy675"Come, come, Mr. Scott...Young minds, fresh ideas...Be tolerant"
Sorry, I am a die-hard Trekkie geek and had to throw that in :)
Excellent!
July 8, 2008 - 07:28 ET by i was just thinkingAnd both quotes from the same conversation! (Now, I'm embarrassed to say, I've forgotten the scene!)
Pregnant Man gives Birth! : )
July 7, 2008 - 16:14 ET by winston smithWe live in a sick world. That's all I'm gonna say.
I agree with you and the
July 7, 2008 - 17:15 ET by mjgI agree with you and the media makes it even sicker, giving creedance to stories like this.
We know that in reality that
July 7, 2008 - 16:16 ET by ForeverOnTheRightWe know that in reality that this "pregnant man" is not a man. What makes us a man or woman is our genitals and DNA. Facial hair and lack of breasts does not make anyone a man. What are we until we are teenagers? Are we not still boys and girls because of our genitals and DNA? Do we lack a sexual identity until we go through puberty? No, of course not. Don’t redefine us because of a freak that should be locked up in an insane asylum for being mentally ill. The MSM is making money off of this freak!
What makes us a man or
July 7, 2008 - 18:52 ET by cleverpigWhat makes us a man or woman is our genitals and DNA
For most of us the world is happily that simple, but not for everyone.
Yep, it is THAT
July 8, 2008 - 09:06 ET by BDYep, it is THAT simple.
Everything else is just make believe.
And only the libs believe in the power of make believe.
"Man" having baby
July 7, 2008 - 22:50 ET by merlin61She was chemically changed into a he/she.
She had the baby. He is still a she...and why
is the MSM so excited about making freaks
not of nature. Yes, the MSM is making a big
deal of it, and most of us could care less about
this whole disaster
I have never begged NBs for
July 7, 2008 - 16:23 ET by bigtimerI have never begged NBs for anything...but I beg you to quit showing this disgusting picture of this despicable sick sick woman.
I don't give a rats rear what the msm thinks...period.
...but I know it's just me...
I cannot take it anymore.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Seconding the motion
July 7, 2008 - 16:36 ET by Mike BrattonWe don't have to see photos of fatal car wrecks to know they're horrific. Similarly, we don't need to see photos of that car-wreck of an individual (whose selfishness and hubris combine to inflict abuse upon an innocent child) to know that she--yes, "she"--has severe problems.
Please, lose the pictures of her--now, and in the future. We have a motion, and a second. All in favor?
--Mike
www.thebrattonreport.com
Thank you Mike... It is
July 7, 2008 - 16:49 ET by bigtimerThank you Mike...
It is offense to me as a woman who has carried children and never had anything before or since be a more beautiful and fulfilling experience..that I thank God and my husband for ....
It is absolutely degrading in my opinion...more that anything...it is just plain hurtful, painful to look at.
I just can't put it in the words I feel exactly.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
One more time msm...men
July 7, 2008 - 16:32 ET by msh1973One more time msm...men don't have babies. We are living in a sick world being forced upon us by the media elites.
SICK
July 7, 2008 - 17:49 ET by MaytagTHIS MAKES ME WANT TO THROW UP A LOT
Menendez I'm just
July 7, 2008 - 17:56 ET by SemperrightMenendez
I'm just sayin
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985
I'm not saying it about
July 7, 2008 - 18:01 ET by Cureboy675I'm not saying it about this person in particular. But as our society as a whole. It just amazes me that anybody who is physically able can spit out as many children as they want and the government can't do a thing to stop them. Yet people who can't have children have to struggle through years of expensive legal precedings to adopt a parentless child.
Will never understand that.
Freak show
July 7, 2008 - 18:22 ET by nkviking75Yep, growing up in the middle of a freak show surely guarantees the child will have a normal, happy life.
The surgeons doing the sex change ought to be brought up on malpractice charges, and this "man's" parental rights should be terminated so the child can be raised by someone sane.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Well, if you consider years,
July 7, 2008 - 18:39 ET by balboaWell, if you consider years, and years, and years of deep therapy "normal," than, sure! Normal it is!
You used quotation marks
July 7, 2008 - 18:47 ET by cleverpigYou used quotation marks around the word
"expert" when referring to Helen Fisher. Is there some reason why you don't consider her a real expert? Here's her faculty page.
You can disagree with her conclusions, but I think it would be hard to argue that she doesn't speak from a broad knowledge of the subject!
Helen Fisher
July 7, 2008 - 21:15 ET by Cool ArrowWell, cp, I just watched "Chuck and Larry", so I guess I'm something of an anthropologist myself.
Here you are berating NB when you can't even get your base to give your agenda serious treatment.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE
Fisher has a PhD in
July 7, 2008 - 21:49 ET by balboaFisher has a PhD in anthropology. That seems to trump your "Chuck and Larry" viewing.
Mere Possession of a Phd
July 7, 2008 - 22:02 ET by NL207Mere Possession of a Phd does not innoculate oneself against being a jackass.
My take: Anybody who thinks this mutilated woman is "normal" or emotionally "well adjusted" is engaged in self delusion. Anyone who thinks that curious relationship into which this child was born is healthy and normal needs to refer back to the mental and emotional health of the mother of this child. It would seem obvious even to a casual observer that all is not well in that household. Anyone who thinks this mutilated woman is a man no doubt thinks the bearded lady at the circus is a man.
What sort of angst do you see driving yourself to have your sexual iorgans all or in part surgically mutilated?
Give me common sense before all the Phd's in the world.
PING!!!!
July 7, 2008 - 22:51 ET by RESTLESS 1The sound of the nail being hit squarely on the head.
NL is right. One could be the smartest human on earth, but that wouldn't mean they are not still a slave to their idealogy.
Instead of pretending that all of these alternative lifestyles are normal and healthy, shouldn't we be working on finding the cause and eventually, a cure?
"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
So now you have to be
July 7, 2008 - 23:45 ET by cleverpigSo now you have to be mentally and emotionally normal in order to have a child? No one with angst is fit to have a kid? Shoot, how many stright people do you know who fit that description?!
The fact is that unless your emotional baggage makes you unfit and unable to care for a child, it's nobody's business if you have gender dysphoria or you are obsessive compulsive and don't step on cracks in the sidewalk.
The MSM has feted this
July 8, 2008 - 09:20 ET by NL207The MSM has feted this woman as an examplar. Perhaps this has escaped your notice?
All sorts of people with questionable parental credentials have children. It is a basic right in our society to procreate, though I have seen at least one liberal Judge who thinks otherwise. The vast majority of these people are not held up by the MSM as positive examples of parenthood, as they have this nut job.
The MSM has portrayed this woman as a "man". This is simply dishonest, agenda-driven reporting. The woman is anatomically a woman and nothing more. The MSM have also sought to portray this household as a caring, loving, home eminently suitable for child rearing. It is nothing of the kind. It is a dysfunctional household populated by a woman who is suffering at the least from gender dysphoria and another woman who is at best an enabler for the problems of the first. These are sick people.
Anthropology - The
July 9, 2008 - 00:53 ET by Cool ArrowAnthropology - The scientific study of the origin and behavior of man, including the development of societies and cultures.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE
Women
July 7, 2008 - 20:57 ET by reddesiresI have no clue why they keep calling this women a man, get a grip so she's ugly but it's a women.........
A normal life?
July 7, 2008 - 21:10 ET by DelsaI would never have guessed an agenda was being pushed.
Normal? Who are they attempting to kid.
Poor little kid. Having to live with two women posing as man and woman. How crazy this kids life will be.
Someone should grab the child and save it.
BT
July 7, 2008 - 22:01 ET by DelsaI am right there with you.
I think the photo is unnecessary.
Period!
A link to the photo should suffice.
Keep the photo of this disgusing pig off the site.
She is a sick twisted freek as is her female wrestling partner.
Cleverpig
July 7, 2008 - 22:21 ET by DelsaYou can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig.
Same thing applies here.
Whatever she thinks she is or wants to be art totally seperate than WHAT she is.
I don't ask strangers what they do in their bedroom, how they do it in their bedroom, or with whom they do it with in their bedroom.
The reason?
Because I DON'T CARE.
These people should keep their strangeness to themselves and leave the rest of us alone.
I am sick to death of having this kind of crap shoved down my throat.
If they fell off the earth tomorrow, I would not miss them one little bit.
That's what irritates me
July 7, 2008 - 22:38 ET by Cureboy675That's what irritates me the most about this whole thing. If you want to be a guy having a baby, go right ahead and I won't try to stop you.
But from this day forward, this child will be known as "the child that was given birth to by a guy". Everybody in the town will know it. Everybody in the school will know it. Can you imagine what its going to be like for this poor child? All because this "parent" decided they wanted to be a public spectacle and have their face plastered all over Good Morning America...And, presumably, get a nice fat payday out of it.
This just shows me this particular individual cares more about themself than this child. And that alone should disqualify you from being allowed to have children.
15 years later...
July 8, 2008 - 07:56 ET by SickofLibs"Hey Dad, can I borrow a tampon?"
That SoL
July 8, 2008 - 10:10 ET by I.am.DILLIGAFThat is just sick, LOL that is too funny I could see it now. I just spit coffee on my moniter thanks for that LOL
Guns and Violence are not the answer but they are one solution to the problem== SARG
Freaks.
July 8, 2008 - 12:16 ET by mattmFreaks.
This is just plain creepy.
July 8, 2008 - 22:11 ET by HeavyChevyNow that I've seen this, I need to go scrub my mind with a brillo pad and take up drinking to dull the image!