Is “She” / “He” Really A Pregnant “Man”?

I just had a conversation with Pumpkin about whether the “Pregnant Man” is really a man or not. I say that she / he is not a technically a man and Pumpkin contends that he / she is. There is a television show on right now that sparked the debate.

According to the television show the fact that Tracy / Thomas had her / his breasts removed allowed her / him to legally change her / his gender on all government documents even though she / he didn’t have any of her reproductive organs removed. Does this mean that any women who have radical mastectomies can legally change their gender? It sounds like it.

Pumpkin believes that since Thomas is living as a man and believes that he is a man that that makes him a man. Her question to me is “What makes someone a man or a woman?” How can we label the genders?

These are good questions. And I don’t know that there are any real answers because the variations on the theme are so huge. After watching the show I guess that I tend to think of him / her more as a man than a woman but I still say that calling him / her the first Pregnant Man is really stretching it. Biologically I still feel that she / he is a female and so cannot be a Pregnant Man regardless of legal status but I must concede that since she / he has a legal definition as a man that she / he can go down on the books as the first Pregnant Man. Even as I write this it feels wrong! I will concede that she wants to be a he, lives like a he, and acts like a he but deep down I don’t think that he is!

What do you think? How do you stand on this … pregnant man or not?

Have a terrific day!

Ella

PS If you have something hateful to say about him / her please do not comment. I fully respect her / his right to choose her / his gender and live as he / she pleases. I am only splitting hairs on whether I believe that she / he deserves the “Pregnant Man” designation.

PPS I haven't done any actual research about this topic except for thinking about it and watching the television show (called Pregnant Man).

PPPS Follow-up FYI. I looked up a medical definition of the term male and female. Interestingly as it relates to this discussion, the definition for female is "an individual organism of the sex that bears young or produces ova or eggs" and "an individual of the sex that produces ova or bears young" while male is "Of, relating to, or designating the sex that has organs to produce spermatozoa for fertilizing ova" and "A member of the sex that begets young by fertilizing ova".