Still far to go

I'm not sure how many of you paid attention to Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man, who gave birth in early July. The Wifey and I watched the Oprah special about him and his wife, Nancy, and per usual, were disgusted and surprised by Oprah's child-like curiousity about the pregnancy, hormones, facial hair and yes, the clitoris. But during the show, we both knew that the media would take this and strangle it to death, and it did. Not that that was the total fault of the media. Beatie was eager to share his story with almost any media outlet that was prepared for the answers and so the story was bigger than his growing belly.

Salon has an interesting piece on Beatie and the media that was written before Beatie gave birth and goes into detail about what was missing from the whole ordeal — respect for transgendered people.