The Lady with a Beard Thomas Beatie Called Freak Show

Thomas Beatie is almost ready to give birth, and she is being called out for what she really is, a woman. A columnist, Jane Moore, wrote that Beatie, who is "gender confused" is nothing but a bearded lady, and has kept her vagina and uterus despite calling herself a man. Moore goes on to say that Beatie has created a "freak show." Moore goes on to say that since Beatie kept all her reproductive organs, she is "Therefore, this is not, I repeat NOT, ’the world’s first pregnant man’ as sold." Beatie is also cashing in on the publicity the attention is bringing.

Moore has written about transgender couples for over 15 years, and now wonders if a similar couple’s daughter emerged from her experience "unscathed." The man in that relationship was born a woman and had given birth to a daughter before undergoing gender reassignment with a double mastectomy and full hysterectomy. He had later met a woman who had previously been a man and the daughter grew up calling her Mum. In case you’re confused, the couple was really a man and a woman, who switched gender roles, but still ended up having a relationship with the opposite “gender confused” sex.

Moore says of Beatie:

"Like it or not, the unpalatable truth is that this is a modern-day equivalent of a freak show, right up there with the Elephant Man, the Hunchback and, rather fittingly, the bearded lady."

Those may seem like harsh words, but that’s the reality of it. Providing surgery and artificial hormones to help Beatie be the way she sees herself is one thing, providing the science to artificially allow her to then have a child without a genetic male borders on unethical, just to continue to support her twisted perecption of reality. Raising a child in that environment teaches that child to also have a twisted view of reality, which will no doubt make it difficult for that child to fit in, or feel normal, in the rest of society.

Click here to read Moore’s article.