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Media Deception: "Miraculous" Pregnant "Man" is Really a Woman

April 6, 2008

The mainstream media pushed the story of Thomas Beatie this past week, billing the story as the 'miraculous' male pregnancy. The startling news headline took the media by storm on April 1 (was this date a coincidence?), following Beatie's appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show and an interview in People magazine.

If this story really were an instance of an unexplained pregnancy in a male, it might really be newsworthy. But it is actually a total non-story about a woman becoming pregnant. And yet, it has been turned into a giant media deception to forward the homosexual and transsexual agenda.

The fact of the matter is that "Thomas Beatie" is really Tracy Lagondino, a lesbian inclined woman who underwent transsexual surgery that altered her breasts, and who decided not to remove her reproductive organs. Beatie has been able to grow a beard due to a testosterone regimen, adding to the deception of a male pregnancy.

The mainstream news media has decided to cover the story, universally referring to Beatie as a "man", using "he" and "his" in reference to her, and proclaiming her pregnancy a miracle. In a widely circulated Reuters report, for example, it was stated, "Beatie, 34, who lives in Oregon, was born a woman but decided to become a man 10 years ago".

Somehow, biology has now been arbitrarily replaced by "deciding" in order to determine one's gender. It sounds so similar to the increasingly heard argument that an unborn baby, at any stage, is only human if the mother "decides" it is wanted, and if she decides not - she can kill it.

Even the normally politically incorrect and reliable DrudgeReport has been consistently referring to Beatie as a "pregnant man" in his headline links.  What has happened to Matt Drudge that he would go along with such an incredibly obvious political correctness?

What we need to understand is how this story fits into the sweeping agenda of the forces gathered to destroy the family.

Homosexual lobbyists have somehow succeeded in many nations in persuading or bullying governments into recognizing same-sex couples legally, one focus being securing the "right" to raise children for themselves.

At the same time schools are introducing mandatory programs to indoctrinate children with a homosexual understanding of families. Hence, it has become clear that the homosexual movement does not so much wish to do away with the concept of family, but rather to twist and warp it until it means something totally subjective.

"Thomas," the ex-beauty queen, proudly said that being pregnant didn't make her feel less of a man, and that the moral of her story is that "wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire." Trouble is, men just do not and physically cannot bear children, no matter how much a few might desire to do so. Desire is not reality.

As the attacks on traditional marriage begin to succeed, the next stage in the homosexual offensive is the attack on gender itself. The total mutability of gender and identity has begun, and stories like this one are forced down the throats of readers everywhere with the expectation that they will be gullible to believe that families are whatever two people want them to be. LifeSiteNews has reported a number of times in the past about attempts to deconstruct gender via the United Nations and in other forums (see http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/040323a.html)

And the proof is in the pudding. Hundreds of versions of the Beatie story have spawned across the internet and the world, even in such far-away places as New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, India and Thailand.

The UK press is all over the story, which even a week later is still in the top five most popular stories for the BBC. Beatie has become a miniature celebrity and poster-child-bearer for lesbian magazines. Dozens of YouTube videos have been uploaded, paying homage to the woman who is trying to convince the world that childbearing and family are things that transcend gender.

Even breastfeeding advocates, who should be showing outrage that a woman would give birth to a child denied breastfeeding because the child's mother has mutilated her own breasts, are strangely silent on the issue.

It's not hard to tell that this whole movement is geared, as we have said, to deconstruct gender. The goal of the transsexual movement is "liberty," a freedom to call oneself a woman or a man depending on his or her feelings or whims.

The homosexual movement has promoted the belief that persons with homosexual inclinations are all born that way and a growing proportion of the public is accepting the theory without bothering to investigate the evidence or lack of for the claim. The transsexual threat is more ambitious: it aims for acceptance of the fantasy that someone can be born a woman in the body of a man, or a man in the body of a woman, or a man can be a mother, or a woman can be a father.

Can the public be led to accept this as well? Again, without any compelling evidence to support such an extremely radical notion? Could it be, as we yesterday reported Peter Kreeft stating, "Antichrist is now winning, because he has convinced most people to bypass that simple word: reason. Most people today "feel;" they no longer "think."'

This preposterous story shows that now the transsexual movement is gaining prominence in the anti-family crusade. All readers need to be aware that the next phase in the transsexual advance involves wholesale deception and manipulation with the full cooperation of the mainstream media.


the loss of reason and virtue are a deadly combination for society.


I think most people are outraged and disgusted by this.  Even the liberal Dr berman said this person is a woman, with a lot of hair.  I am so tired of seeing the half-naked woman's body, also. 

 

Pray for the innocent child, and for our world.


I'm so happy someone is finally speaking the truth about this!


John, thanks for calling a spade a spade.


Mr. Connolly, 

I agree with you fully.  This is a deception and likewise it is simply outright foolishness.  When I heard the first news report, and I listened clearly, it was obvious that this person is not a "pregnant man" but rather a disturbed woman who has undergone hormone treatment.

There is nothing miraculous (in the manner meant in the news articles) about a woman having a baby (even if the woman has taken hormones to make facial hair grow and had her breasts surgically reduced). 

The shame of all this is that reporters and editors who want a sensational story are willing to be so deceptive.  This is no more noteworthy than if I decided to don a dress, grow my hair longer, depliate and then announce the "miracle" that I could still impregnate my wife (though I hope she would run for the hills before letting me near her dressed like that - hey maybe that would be the miracle!).

Enough ranting but I strongly encourage everyone writing here to write an additional e-mail to whatever local or internet news outlet carried the story (that you noticed) and tell them that you don't appreciate being deceived.  I don't think it will change anything but it may make someone think twice before running silly news items in the future.

VR,

John Scotto


As Voltaire said, when we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities.


So this woman is taking testosterone supplements while pregnant?Sounds like child abuse to me. But, oh, yeah ---  according to most LBGT groups, it's not a baby till it comes out, anyway.

 

I wonder if there would be a lawyer or social service professional out there brave enough to advocate for the child, who I can't imagine isn't being harmed by the drug cocktail!!!

 


How sinful, ignorant, and stupid.  "Thomas" is a mutilated woman, not a man.  She said she wanted to keep her womb in order to have a child one day, so she obviously understands that men cannot be pregnant yet she claims to be a man and the media believes this.  Nobody seems to care about the effect of the male hormone drugs on the baby nor the effect of a weird mother on the baby. 

This is as upside-down, backwards, and absurd as me claiming to the media that there is no such thing as gravity anymore therefore I must wear weighted boots so that I do not float away, and the media comes to my home, takes pictures, prints my weird ideas, and people believe me and sing my praises. 

It's like we are in that handbasket to hell on a one-way, non-stop ticket and people think it is great and liberating.  I think it is terribly frightening.  Heaven help us all....we desperately need it!


Ok this is disturbing me on a lot of levels.  I didn't watch the tv segment because I refuse to watch Oprah, but, may I ask who the biological parents of the child are?  The wo(man) carrying the child, or her partner?  Who is the biological father? 

What on earth are these two people going to tell the child?  Daddy is a transexual lesbian woman and also your real biological mother?  Your mother actually has no blood or legal relationship to you and is the lebsian lover of your transexual bio mom? 

I'm no expert on "gender re-assignment surgery", but if this individual kept her reproductive organs, that suggests to me that she is all woman from the waist down, yet looks like a man in all other respects.  This is not gender re-assignment, it is no gender.  My concern is that someone with these enormous identity issues is in no condition to be guiding another young human life through maturation.

I'm curious to know ... does the government recognize this person as male or female.  Is the couple legally married as man and wife?  If this couple splits up, will both be financially and legally responsible for the child?

The selfishness is staggering ...


St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle!


In answer to Stirling's question, perhaps "Thomas'" wife is really "Tracy's" husband.  .....? 

Okay, I know how bizarre that sounds, but what about this story isn't bizarre?  Obviously, Tracy/Thomas has some serious gender issues (otherwise, why not complete the transition?).  As a mental health professional, I would put T/T in a padded cell and give the baby to some "normal" people.

But, what do I know?


If I remember correctly , the child's biological father is a sperm donor, and 'Thomas's ' 'wife' is another woman - one who has uterine problems which preclude her carrying a child.


I seem to recall a recent European court case which held that a medical technician involved in the artificial insemination can be found to have parental responsibilities as well.

So we are up to three or four parents, now, eh?

That Pope Paul VI was on to something with Humanae Vitae.






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