[Olde Hornet]

Transgender men can get pregnant. Here's what they wish more people understood.   

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/transgender-men-can-get-pregnant-174513259.html

When Danny Wakefield gave birth to their first child in 2020, it brought to light a string of issues faced by transgender parents in the health care system.

“I had a really hard pregnancy,” Wakefield, 36, who is transgender but also uses they/them pronouns, tells Yahoo Life. During emergency room visits, Wakefield says they were met with “snickers” from nurses, as well as “doubt, disbelief and a lack of knowledge” from physicians ill-equipped to handle their needs.

“In one instance, it took an hour and a half to get them to treat me because they didn't believe I was pregnant,” Wakefield says. “The doctors and nurses would talk quietly among themselves, asking each other questions about me, instead of asking me directly — the patient who's sitting right in front of them.”

Stories like Wakefield’s are not uncommon, says Dr. Juno Obedin-Maliver, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine. That’s mainly because the medical establishment — and society at large — has little knowledge about pregnancy in the trans male population.

[CU1994]

I guess Lyndsey Graham might have baby. 

[Strike79]

 ………ok, the article linked in the lead post is fairly lengthy, but your humble poster read most of it. So I now know that transgender men who still “ovulate” can conceive so long as they are having intercourse with a male who can insert his sperm.
 
So it appears, then, and the article is silent on the matter, many, if not most, transgender men STILL retain female genitalia - uterus AND a vagina. How else can a baby be delivered, but through the vaginal canal, right? So THAT part which renders them male is wholly external only.

I gotta tell ya, after absorbing all of this information, I am damn near as shook as I was after watching a science special a few decades back which showed “folks” who possessed BOTH
male and female genitalia…………YIKES!! 

[y04185]

It is still a female.

[lew9ball]

What

[Jay_Thomas]

………ok, the article linked in the lead post is fairly lengthy, but your humble poster read most of it. So I now know that transgender men who still “ovulate” can conceive so long as they are having intercourse with a male who can insert his sperm.

They don't even have to have intercourse. Just like women [who have not had sex reassignment surgery] can go to a sperm bank and do artificial insemination, so can a trans man.



Honestly, I don't care what these people do so long as they aren't bothering me.  Leave me with MY peace, por favor.

[A&T AGGIE 96]

Men can't get pregnant...only women. 

[‘87 Alum]

………ok, the article linked in the lead post is fairly lengthy, but your humble poster read most of it. So I now know that transgender men who still “ovulate” can conceive so long as they are having intercourse with a male who can insert his sperm.
 
So it appears, then, and the article is silent on the matter, many, if not most, transgender men STILL retain female genitalia - uterus AND a vagina. How else can a baby be delivered, but through the vaginal canal, right? So THAT part which renders them male is wholly external only.

I gotta tell ya, after absorbing all of this information, I am damn near as shook as I was after watching a science special a few decades back which showed “folks” who possessed BOTH
male and female genitalia…………YIKES!! 

Strike -

You are correct. In the noted article, they are a born female who is male identifying. So, yes, if their born reproductive system as a female is still 100% intact and functioning, they can conceive and have a baby.

[Bearforlife]

………ok, the article linked in the lead post is fairly lengthy, but your humble poster read most of it. So I now know that transgender men who still “ovulate” can conceive so long as they are having intercourse with a male who can insert his sperm.
 
So it appears, then, and the article is silent on the matter, many, if not most, transgender men STILL retain female genitalia - uterus AND a vagina. How else can a baby be delivered, but through the vaginal canal, right? So THAT part which renders them male is wholly external only.

I gotta tell ya, after absorbing all of this information, I am damn near as shook as I was after watching a science special a few decades back which showed “folks” who possessed BOTH
male and female genitalia…………YIKES!! 

A trans man who has an in tact uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries can get pregnant. They don't necessarily need a p*nis to be inserted to do so. An egg can be extracted from the ovary, fertilized in a lab and implanted in the uterus. The baby can be delivered via cesarean section. And there are plenty of natural born women who are impregnated and deliver babies this way. Conception is a lot more complicated than what people think. A vaginal canal is not necessary to get pregnant or deliver a baby. Also, to further blow your mind there are natural born women who 1. never get a period 2. don't have a vaginal canal and they are born that way. It is called Mayer-Rokitansku_Kuster-Houser Syndrome or MRKH for short. You can be a natural born female with no reproductive organs. It is rare but it does happen.

[Jay_Thomas]

Mayer-Rokitansku_Kuster-Houser Syndrome

Good Lawd. Try saying that one 3 times really fast. 

[Strike79]

Alum^^^I'm trying to adopt the same attitude as my mother had before she passed away almost two years ago at age 89.  She would read newspaper and online headlines to keep up with the trends so she wouldn't sound "ignorant".  I am doing my best to do the same, but its more than a tad jarring to see what otherwise look like a "man" taking pics with an exposed extended, pregnant belly.  Its really FREAKISH to me, but these "men" would be offended by my thinking.

My two granddaughters appear to be sweet, lovable little girls, 2 and 4.  But WHAT IF something changed with them later on?  How would I and their parents deal with that? 

Ok, I'll stop because the more I think about the prospects, the more disturbing it gets.

[Strike79]

………ok, the article linked in the lead post is fairly lengthy, but your humble poster read most of it. So I now know that transgender men who still “ovulate” can conceive so long as they are having intercourse with a male who can insert his sperm.
 
So it appears, then, and the article is silent on the matter, many, if not most, transgender men STILL retain female genitalia - uterus AND a vagina. How else can a baby be delivered, but through the vaginal canal, right? So THAT part which renders them male is wholly external only.

I gotta tell ya, after absorbing all of this information, I am damn near as shook as I was after watching a science special a few decades back which showed “folks” who possessed BOTH
male and female genitalia…………YIKES!! 

A trans man who has an in tact uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries can get pregnant. They don't necessarily need a p*nis to be inserted to do so. An egg can be extracted from the ovary, fertilized in a lab and implanted in the uterus. The baby can be delivered via cesarean section. And there are plenty of natural born women who are impregnated and deliver babies this way. Conception is a lot more complicated than what people think. A vaginal canal is not necessary to get pregnant or deliver a baby. Also, to further blow your mind there are natural born women who 1. never get a period 2. don't have a vaginal canal and they are born that way. It is called Mayer-Rokitansku_Kuster-Houser Syndrome or MRKH for short. You can be a natural born female with no reproductive organs. It is rare but it does happen.

........ok, Bfl, I realize your ONLY interest in responding to me as you did was to impart knowledge.  But, Lord, have mercy, that's a tad more than I can absorb in one morning.  I think I'll take my leave of the board for now.

Blessings to all on this day!

[Bearforlife]

LOL @Strike...that's really why people don't like defining male/female by body parts. All people born women can't conceive or give birth. All can't even have s*x naturally. All don't have reproductive organs. It's more complicated than boy/girl at birth.

[CIAA-FAN]

IT MAY BE A MATTER OF SEMANTICS, BUT ANY ORGANISM CAPABLE OF BECOMING PREGNANT IS A FEMALE, IMO. 

[Bearforlife]

IT MAY BE A MATTER OF SEMANTICS, BUT ANY ORGANISM CAPABLE OF BECOMING PREGNANT IS A FEMALE, IMO. 

The word female is both adjective and noun. A female what?

Biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and expression are all different and fluid for different people.

The question here was how does a trans-man be pregnant and deliver a baby. That is quite simple. While that person may have been born female that is not their gender identity or expression. It's real easy to acknowledge people how they prefer to be.

Also, as I said before all female born humans are not capable of becoming pregnant and all female born humans are not born with reproductive organs. So the ability to become pregnant or not is not the crux of if one is a female born human.