I am a liberalist. I very much believe in the "live and let live" philosophy. That said there are very few people in this world of ours that don't have parameters outwith of which they find things alien and unacceptable to their moral codes, their way of life, their beliefs, or their understanding of right and wrong. I am no different. I can understand and sympathise with the transgender issue. What I have difficulty with is the ad lib switching between genders. True transgenders find the idea of living with their "born gender" really difficult and do everything possible to alienate themselves from it. Most FtoM transgenders wouldn't dream of reversing the process part way through, to bear children, when the idea of being a woman in the first place was so abhorrent to them that they undergo surgery to change gender.That, coupled to the publicity campaign, the effect this will all have on the children as they grow up, the dissolution of the relationship and the post natal completion of the transgender process all adds up to what people find unnatural and disturbing. Nature sometimes makes mistakes and I do not begrudge people trying to rectify those mistakes with the help of medical science but there are limits to what I find acceptable. This "tooing and frooing" between the genders on an ad lib basis transcends those limits in my opinion. It makes a mockery of the of life. I am not ashamed to be from the UK.

Perfectly NORMAL Singh2012. Most people would find something like this very difficult to understand.

In need of getting a life. Live and let live, Thomas Beatie doesn´t bother you, you shouldn bother him, or his wife or children with your ideas. You´re free to live you´re life as you want as long as you dont hurt others, let the Beaties do the same.

if by QUEER you mean HOMOsexual (that makes you a bigot!!) then you are wrong, he, she it is a TRANS sexual !!

So you think a man who was born in a womans body must me unstable, just because he wanted kids? Or just because he took the decision to carrý them himself, when his wife couldn´t?

According to what shrink is it a sign of the person being unstable to have a strong desire for kids? Your just ignorant.

I find myself reminded of the townspeople from that same story.

It´s nothing strange about that, and it´s all there for people who can read. His wife had had an hysterectomy (her uterus was remowed) beacuse of medical reasons.

Thas was teh only way for them to get children. People are able to face quite a lot to get children, ask any couple trying desperatly trying to becoming pregnant.

Well, it must be the state who is "silly". Since he´s a man according to USA. Maybe you should adress them instead?

How come you´re so sure the children will lose on of the parents? Is that what has to happened according to US law or what? (I´m not US citizen, so I`m just curious, thats not what normally happens in my country.)

But don't doctors help infertile men and all that IVF's stuff is also god's creation. all those babies with life threatening diseases we abort each year. that's a doctor's work too. Just how many childless couples have prayed for god's help only to get a baby from a doctor's tube. And they even thank god after that. The irony .

Ever have a broken bone set, take an antibiotic, or have any surgery?

Doctors playing god.