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Pregnant Man loses baby because of transphobic ignorance

AtlantaAdonis

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Blurred lines: A pregnant man'''s tragedy tests gender notions

Absolutely appalling. The transphobic assumption this hospital made that because this person was a man that he couldn't be pregnant cost him his baby. Are medical students and interns not being taught to just not assume that men aren't going to have lady parts and feminine needs?
 
Was this a woman? Or a man with man parts?
 
"Pregnant man" is fiction. A man doesn't have a uterus.
 
Crystal said:
Was this a woman? Or a man with man parts?
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Born a woman, still had an intact uterus and vagina, identified as a man and apparently looked manly.
I am wondering how someone who identified as a man decided to have sex like a woman, hence becoming pregnant.
Obviously, he didn't think he could become pg.

Too bad the baby died. I smell a lawsuit.
Carelessness on their part.
 
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AtlantaAdonis said:
Blurred lines: A pregnant man'''s tragedy tests gender notions

Absolutely appalling. The transphobic assumption this hospital made that because this person was a man that he couldn't be pregnant cost him his baby. Are medical students and interns not being taught to just not assume that men aren't going to have lady parts and feminine needs?
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lol could you pick a more insane and dishonest thread title . . wow


is the hospital to blame? yes absolutely IMO based on actually reading the article but "transphobia" had nothing to do with it . . . .

The 32-year-old patient told the nurse he was transgender when he arrived at the emergency room and his electronic medical record listed him as male. He hadn’t had a period in several years and had been taking testosterone, a hormone that has masculinizing effects and can decrease ovulation and menstruation. But he quit taking the hormone and blood pressure medication after he lost insurance.
A home pregnancy test was positive and he said he had “peed himself” — a possible sign of ruptured membranes and labor. A nurse ordered a pregnancy test but considered him stable and his problems non-urgent.

Several hours later, a doctor evaluated him and the hospital test confirmed pregnancy. An ultrasound showed unclear signs of fetal heart activity, and an exam revealed that part of the umbilical cord had slipped into the birth canal. Doctors prepared to do an emergency cesarean delivery, but in the operating room no fetal heartbeat was heard. Moments later, the man delivered a stillborn baby. A woman showing up with similar symptoms “would almost surely have been triaged and evaluated more urgently for pregnancy-related problems,”.
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they simply seemed to have dropped the ball
 
AtlantaAdonis said:
Blurred lines: A pregnant man'''s tragedy tests gender notions

Absolutely appalling. The transphobic assumption this hospital made that because this person was a man that he couldn't be pregnant cost him his baby. Are medical students and interns not being taught to just not assume that men aren't going to have lady parts and feminine needs?
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I agree they missed this and assumed he was just obese instead of pg. Your article said he took a pg. test at home and it proved positive, so why didn't he tell the attending physician this?
Or did he? Article didn't say but they did perform a pg. test and it was positive.

You are assuming they were transphobic. I see no evidence of this and the article didn't assume it either. The article did raise good points though. Just because someone is transgendered as a man doesn't mean they don't have diseases or unique health conditions related to their original gender. Not all transgenders have been completely transitioned and the assumption was that a person who looked like a man and acted like a man probably couldn't be pg. or in labor. Nurses, doctors need to be taught more critical thinking skills when it comes to treating transgenders.
 
trixare4kids said:
I agree they missed this and assumed he was just obese instead of pg. Your article said he took a pg. test at home and it proved positive, so why didn't he tell the attending physician this?
Or did he? Article didn't say but they did perform a pg. test and it was positive.

You are assuming they were transphobic. I see no evidence of this and the article didn't assume it either. The article did raise good points though. Just because someone is transgendered as a man doesn't mean they don't have diseases or unique health conditions related to their original gender. Not all transgenders have been completely transitioned and the assumption was that a person who looked like a man and acted like a man probably couldn't be pg. or in labor. Nurses, doctors need to be taught more critical thinking skills when it comes to treating transgenders.
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Correction: no transgenders have been completely transitioned. Such a thing is IMPOSSIBLE. A person born male can never get pregnant, and a person born female can never impregnate.
 
I guess it's a good thing for someone -- the man, the doctors; I can't really say who -- it didn't happen in Alabama....
 
phattonez said:
Correction: no transgenders have been completely transitioned. Such a thing is IMPOSSIBLE. A person born male can never get pregnant, and a person born female can never impregnate.
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As usual, you are wrong again because your made up definition of completely transitioned is not reality. it simply means complete all the step possible or even in many cases the individual transition plan that may not even do all the steps possible. SO your "correction" is factually wrong per this topic and context. Let me know if theres any other factual mistakes i can help you with, you're welcome.
 
phattonez said:
Correction: no transgenders have been completely transitioned. Such a thing is IMPOSSIBLE. A person born male can never get pregnant, and a person born female can never impregnate.
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You need to read the definition posted below. Nothing I wrote is incorrect.

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex. Some transgender people identify as transsexual if they desire medical assistance to transition from one sex to another.
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transexual - Google Search

ETA: The person from the above aforementioned article was born female but identified as a male. This person had not completely transitioned to becoming a male. Still had female parts, hence the pregnancy.
 
phattonez said:
Your definition doesn't state what completely transition means.
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The transgendered individual in the article still had female parts which resulted in a pregnancy. IF this person who identified as a male had the uterus removed, there would be no pregnancy. Surely, you don't want me to draw you a picture. I would think you have the ability to figure this one out for yourself. IF not, google it.
 
trixare4kids said:
The transgendered individual in the article still had female parts which resulted in a pregnancy. IF this person who identified as a male had the uterus removed, there would be no pregnancy. Surely, you don't want me to draw you a picture. I would think you have the ability to figure this one out for yourself. IF not, google it.
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Yet this person still wouldn't have a functioning penis and testicles, nor a prostate. So how is that a complete transition?
 
phattonez said:
Your definition doesn't state what completely transition means.
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actually, YOURS doesnt. you dont get to make stuff up based on your feelings and claim them as fact
 
phattonez said:
Yet this person still wouldn't have a functioning penis and testicles, nor a prostate. So how is that a complete transition?
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thank you for proving how factually uneducated you are on this topic . . once again your feelings about complete transition is not the factual definition on this topic
 
Hasn't anyone ever heard of hermaphrodite? It's not as uncommon as you may think.
 
HumblePi said:
Hasn't anyone ever heard of hermaphrodite? It's not as uncommon as you may think.
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Not sure why you made this comment. This was a biological female who identifies as a man. Not a hermaphrodite.
 
Josie said:
Not sure why you made this comment. This was a biological female who identifies as a man. Not a hermaphrodite.
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Okay, I skimmed it and only read 'uterus' 'male' blah blah, so I assumed hermaphrodite
 
AGENT J said:
lol could you pick a more insane and dishonest thread title . . wow


is the hospital to blame? yes absolutely IMO based on actually reading the article but "transphobia" had nothing to do with it . . . .



they simply seemed to have dropped the ball
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The last bolded sentence should clue you in
 
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