The Pregnant Man on South Park

Mr. Garrison is the teacher on South Park who got a sex change to become a women, but after seeing the woman who is pregnant and yet claims she is a man, Thomas Beatie, on Oprah, Mr. Garrison realizes he was just confused and wants to go back to being a man. The only problem he needs a new penis. He gets one by the end of the show. Happy ending for Mr. Garrison, but for the child of Thomas Beatie, there will only be a lot of confusion and stigma from a society that will have a lot of trouble accepting a woman who says she’s a man. Society sees the reality that Beatie is a woman, but due to her own untreated psychological issues Beatie cannot accept herself for what she is, a woman with a desire to be a man. That condition is partially called penis envy, which Sigmund Freud identified in his work. Some call the majority of society homophobic for not accepting Beatie’s choice to live as a man, even though she has a uterus and a vagina, and is now pregnant. The truth is that Beatie needs psychological help because she is in reality a woman, who is going to bring a child into the world who will have to deal with Beatie’s psychological issues as well. It’s Beatie that needs help, not the majority of society.