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Scott Moore and his partner, Thomas, are expecting a bundle of life’s joy next month: a child.
Moore underwent a gender reassignment surgery in order to become a man, but kept his lady parts so that he could father/mother a child. Scott, formerly known as Jessica, had the whole shebang: breast removal, hormone treatment therapy and facial hair transplants. Moore has been one happy man since his reassignment, marriage to partner Thomas (who was also formerly a woman) and pregnancy with their first child, who is due next month. The couple also has two other children at home, ages ten and twelve, both from previous relationships.
The child is due to be born next month and will be called ‘Miles’.
No word on if the child will be named after the many ‘miles’ they’ve walked together in order to reach their ultimate destination.
Congratulations to the happy couple and good luck on a healthy childbirth!
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Part of sex reassignment surgery involves living as the gender you are moving towards. This person claims to want to be a man but then has fertility treatment to get pregnant. It’s people like this that make life difficult for people who are really transgendered.
Yeah that struck me as odd too.
Thank You.
He definitely needs to get some maternity tops.
Something about not being able to own a cake and consume it at the same time…
If you want to be a man, then man up. Men don’t have children. That’s how it works.
How is what you’re saying any different from when people used to (and sometimes still do) say that women didn’t own property or provide for her family or any number of things?
On this feminist website, we all believe that a woman can do anything that a man can. If we also believe that men CAN’T do everything that a woman can do, than we are just as bad as the people who think that it’s perfectly reasonable for us to make 74 cents on the dollar of what men make.
Oh get off it. There’s a difference between saying what things a person is limited to, and saying what things a body is limited to. A male body is not capable of getting pregnant. A body capable of getting pregnant is clearly not entirely male, and raises questions of the actual sex.
It’s like saying women can’t write their name in the snow (without a lot more skill), not like saying women can’t do math.
I think it’s best to just let the Python boys deal with this one…
Stan: I want to have babies.
Reg: You want to have babies?!?!
Stan: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
Reg: But … you can’t HAVE babies!
Stan: Don’t you oppress me!
Reg: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the fetus gonna gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?
So even though you can’t have babies, you have the *right* to have babies. We will now uphold Loretta’s right to have babies!
Actually I find it funny that they both went from being women to gay men. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I realize sexual orientation has little to do with gender, but interesting nonetheless.
I got dizzy just reading about this.
LOL, I’m not even religious but I’m pretty sure I could hear the thundering hooves of the four horseman of the apocalypse.
They were running away, Joey.
As fast as they can. And they took the damn hand basket.
This is completely disgusting. Can you imagine the humiliation of the poor child who will suffer for this person’s selfishness? Pick a gender and deal with the limitations of that choice!
The dog even looks disturbed by this weirdness!
Whats wrong with y’all?
He wanted to have a baby. He had a baby. Kudo’s to him and his family.
I think it’s awesome that he was able to do this. Why does it freak you guys out so much?
The ability to create life is such a wonderful gift. If he didn’t want to give up that gift when he became man, that’s his choice, and what an awesome choice to have!
Are you really a man if you’ve got a working womb & all the associated plumbing?
Agreed!
A lot of transgender people don’t have their sexual organs removed. It’s not particularly noticeable unless you’re wearing a tight swimsuit or similar and it tends to cause issues. They can create a vagina out of tissue from the penis and vice versa but they’re nothing like the real thing and a constructed penis really doesn’t function in a sexual manner at all. The injections of hormones bring about a more male appearance, facial hair and such, and they also stop periods and ovulation so it’s not like these guys are toting tampons around.
So, then, there’s no real point to the terms “man” and “woman” anymore, and we can abandon them and feminism and gender altogether?
@Jorge I would have to agree with you 100% here.
I have to wonder what the environment is like for the baby in the body of something strangely in between. White kind of hormones are in the womb when the body took drugs to remove the breasts, then drugs to restore fertility, and such. It must be very strange.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this person wound up with medical issues later from all this messing around with hormones. First they take male hormones to become a man and then they stop those and I’m sure probably took fertility meds and possibly other hormones to become a woman. I’m guessing they’re going to go back on the male hormones afterwards to become a man again. At this point in time though she’s a woman with no breasts and short hair. The no breasts thing is really bugging me. If she wanted to have a baby couldn’t she have held off on reassignment surgery until afterwards? Now this kid is growing up in a freak show and they won’t get breast milk.
Oh I didn’t even think of that…I actually hope the baby turns out ok because I’m sure the cocktail of hormones isn’t doing it any good.
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I think what bothers me the most about this is the fact that he/she is seeking out public attention complete with showing off a pregnant belly. OK, to each their own, but why broadcast it. I would think that if this is a loving couple who wanted to have a natural child they would just do so, and go on their happy life. It’s the fact that they have to make a big issue out of this is what’s partially bothersome.
I also agree, either man or women, that’s why I said he/she above. The only way I would feel otherwise is if someone is actually born with both male and female organs.
You sound like my great aunt, who thinks it’s fine that people are gay, but doesn’t believe they should seek public attention by showing it off.
These men are proud of who they are, and what they are about to accomplish. Why shouldn’t they show it off?
My gender studies education has formed my opinion that gender is something that is entirely created, not something you are born with. Sex is what you are born with, gender is socially constructed.
Now, to support transgendered people is to somewhat agree that gender is not as straightforward as what your body dictates. So if we are willing to accept that a person born with female genitals may be a man, why is it such a jump to accept that a man would want to physically carry a baby? If such a person has already rejected the idea that the body dictates their gender, then why in order to be a man, can they not have their body still function as a female body would?
Clearly Mr. Moore feels comfortable with his body the way it is, and just because the state of his body does not fit into a clear definition of male or female is no reason to criticise him. He is breaking down current defintions of what makes a man or a woman, and I applaud him for it (thought his intentions may be more family oriented than to break down hegemonic theory- but I appreciate it none the less).
Having gender roles broken down, both in terms of behaviour and the body, is benefical to all feminists. It allows people to be who they are, without being restricted by social definitions.
“You sound like my great aunt, who thinks it’s fine that people are gay, but doesn’t believe they should seek public attention by showing it off.” Way off base here. No one should be forced to live in the “closet.” I fully support gay and transgendered individuals.
I have read nothing regarding Scott Moore except this post. If Scott is an advocate for transgendered people I would expect him to be open and public about his choices. What I find troubling are people who seek out the spotlight just for the attention. (again, don’t know if he is) Scott has a family and children to think about, and unfortunately people can be very mean and hateful when someone is different then them. He has children to think about, but again, how else to break boundries? The cost to his family can be quite high. I do see both sides of this situation.
As a lot of comments have brought up, I also wonder about the effects of artificial hormones on Scott and his unborn baby.
My feelings on a personal level. Honestly, I just don’t understand how someone would want to be half man and half women. I understand being born into the wrong body, and thankfully medical science has made vast improvements to correct this situation. This is no critisism on Scott, I frimly believe to each their own as long as it doesn’t infringe on others rights. (which this does not) I just don’t understand if you feel that you are a male, why would you want to experience one of the most “female” feats possible?
I’m not saying my feelings are right or wrong, they just are.
I just don’t get it.
“Honestly, I just don’t understand how someone would want to be half man and half women.”
Agreed. I mean, it seems to me that if you’re going to do it you might as well go the whole nine yards.
they look really similar to each other – d’ya reckon they looked really similar when they were women????
Do you think the delivery staff (nurses and such) are going to be a little freaked out?
I imagine they’re going to have a briefing in L&D about it. It’s going to be a new experience for them.
This is grotesque. If they are “men” they shouldn’t be getting preggers and expecting society to go along with this. What will happen to the poor child when his/her peers find out? I can only imagine the bullying and teasing that will ensue. And do we know the effect all these hormone injections will have on the child?
Those who believe in reincarnation(an interest of mine),say that gender confusion comes from cross gender incarnation which isn’t accepted for some reason. I find it interesting that the term,born in the wrong body,comes up often.
So…..are they lesbians? Or are they gay men? I’m so confused right now.
If you’re pregnant you’re a woman. The partner has gone through treatment so they’re a man. They’re basically a straight couple at this point.
Okay. I think I understand. I wasn’t trying to be crass, I was genuinely curious!!!
I’m glad you’ve got it Whit, cause I’m still confused!
What Rhonda and Sara said makes sense, but if I’m not mistaken Scott considers his gender a man even though he’s actual a women? I guess I need to look up and study the difference between gender and sex.
Sex is physical, gender is more of a choice and more of a sliding scale. You can go through the treatments and such to become a man but this woman had to go back again and become a woman again to carry a child. Maybe she still classes herself as a man but she’d deluding herself.
This is a non-story. A woman born a woman with woman parts is now pregnant. I’m happy for her that living as a man makes her happy and more power to her that she is fullfilled and has a life partner, but she is still a woman who got pregnant. Just because she had surgery and cut her hair short doesn’t make this a miracle.
This is Scott Moore. I just thought that I would respond to the people who had logical questions and concerns. I’m not going to sit here and argue with those who simply think my husband and I are “Disgusting.” I’m aware that would simply be wasting my time.
1. I never had “facial hair transplants” taking male hormones alone caused me to grow facial hair.
2. I did not use fertility treatments to conceive. In order to conceive I stopped taking male hormones for close to a year. I was able to conceive simply because i have a working reproductive system and without testosterone my hormones were within the normal, female range. This means that my baby is not being harmed by any hormones. He is growing just as a baby would in an average woman’s womb.
3. I am not half-man half-woman. nor am I “going back” to being a woman. I know plenty of people are going to not understand transgendered people at all. But for those of you who do, think of it this way: I am using what i was born with the way that it was meant to be used. I am taking what has always been a negative thing for me, being “born in the wrong body” and I am using it to create a beautiful, positive thing in my life. I am coming to terms with myself; I still identify as a man but am comfortable enough with myself at this point in my life to set my own needs aside in order to create a beautiful baby boy.
4. Last but not least, my husband and I are not out in the open for attention. As a matter of fact we do not enjoy the attention. But the longer transgendered people hide in the shadows and pretend that this is not real, the harder life will continue to be. We are simply hoping to educate even one person, and hopefully make life a tiny bit easier for the next transgendered man/family in our shoes.
I wish you total happiness.
Please don’t pretend that you’re trying to make life easier for transgendered people.
I don’t have to pretend,I’ve never wished any of them ill will.
I wasn’t talking to you Joey, that comment was aimed at Scott.
Sorry,my bad.
” I still identify as a man but am comfortable enough with myself at this point in my life to set my own needs aside in order to create a beautiful baby boy.” Thank you Scott, this sentence makes sense to me. I think that’s where I was struggling the most to understand. When you said “set my own needs aside” I got it. I’m assuming that childbirth was the reason for keeping your female organs?
I also like the fact that you are not basking in the “limelight”, and do understand, as I said before, educating people about the transgendered and giving up much privacy to do so.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to actual questions about your life. I do agree that educating people is a step in the right direction. Enjoy your precious baby boy!
ditto what Vchild’s said.
Do you worry about changing your hormones around having a bad effect on your health though, like organs and things? Do you get huge mood swings?
SO YOU WERE A WOMAN WHO WANTED TO BE A MAN AND NOW YOU ARE WITH ANOHTER WOMAN WHO WANTED TO BE A MAN? CONFUSING….YOU ARE NOT AT ALL GAY MEN B/C NEITHER ONE OF YOU HAVE THE EQUIPMENT. LESIBIANS SURE, BUT IF THATS ALL YOU WANTED, YOU BOTH COULDA SAVED THE TIME AND MONEY AND JUST STAYED WOMEN…THEY WAY GOD INTENDED. SO WILL THE CHILD SAY I HAVE 2 DADS, 2 MOMS, OR 2 SICKOS?
Sweetie, here’s a tip. There’s this funny little button on the left side of your keyboard. It says Caps Lock. If you press the aforementioned “magic button,” somehow makes you sound like even more of a flamboyant retard. Which, given what you just said, is surprising; I would think it hard to make your little bible-beating rant more abrasive, but congrats! Your use of the magic Caps button has done it!
I wish I could be a lesibian.