In one of the more bizarre stories I’ve read in a while, a Melbourne transgender ‘man’ has reportedly said that he feels ‘blessed’ to give birth.
The ABC reported on Monday that “Melbourne man AJ Kearns says he is just an ordinary father living in the suburbs with his two young children. But there are many who would disagree.
At 41, he is a transgender man who chose to become pregnant and have a baby.”
Gender specialist (whatever that is) Dr Fintan Harte has labeled Mr Kearns a “trail blazer.”
I can barely contain my impressedness.
As the ABC continues, “it is the first time in more than 30 years of practice that the psychiatrist has encountered a ‘trans-identified male’ who had planned to become pregnant.”
Mr Kearns said that he felt nervous about telling his his psychiatrist he planned to have a baby.
“I was concerned that he wouldn’t see me as a man or I guess maybe I wouldn’t be trans enough or it would be misconstrued as a desire to be a woman,” he said.
But Mr Kearns’ psychiatrist assured him that there was no reason why he should not have a baby.
Despite giving birth to a child, Mr Kearns has always regarded himself as the father of his two children.
Mr Kearns and his partner Zu White say they have been honest with their children about how they were conceived.
“Most probably my greatest fear is that my children will bear the brunt of people’s ignorance,” Mr Kearns said.
“Ignorance”? Really?
Perhaps what you’re most afraid of is that people will know the truth that despite an attempt to change your appearance, you are still biologically female?
One wonders how AJ and Zu are going to go about explaining the birds and the bees to their children…. but perhaps that’s just my ignorance speaking.
