My better half coined the term: ‘He-mother!’ I was about to yell when she narrated the item of the ABC News, originally reported by People magazine, about Thomas Beatie, the Oregon-based US man who has given birth to a baby albeit he can’t breast-feed the baby. In the same breadth she told about the most sticking part of the news that the man of 34 springs kept female reproductive organs intact when he legally became a man 10 years ago. I stopped her and double checked the word legally that she just narrated. She nodded her head in affirmation. She was euphoric about the fact that a woman can be father and, at the same time, a mother too! Nothing is astonishing in our era that a woman has got converted herself to man after surgery and hormonal treatment, solemnised marriage and has been living happily thereafter as a man with his now-46-springs old wife Nancy, I was thinking. It was other thing that the baby, a girl-child, was conceived through artificial insemination using Mr Beatie’s own eggs and donor sperm. The only thing I was wondering about how a woman can be LEAGALLY man keeping her female reproductive organs intact! More fascinating is the reported statement of his wife after the delivery: HE’s going to be the father, and I’m going to be the mother. ‘Just forget all those he or she business,’ she cracked my thought-web, ‘Let’s Cheers! Long live baby with thy parents!’
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