Is it a sin for a man to be pregnant?

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I recently read the newspaper and saw a picture of the world’s first pregnant man! It was just shocking. Is it a sin? If so, why?
 
First of all - that is not a man. It is a woman who has undergone procedures to “look” like a man.

Second - it is a sin, becasue to change the body in such a way goes against how God created us. It is saying that God was wrong when he created this woman as a woman.

Third - they manner in which this person became pregnant goes against the teaching of Christ’s Church.

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It certainly goes against all that God has created. It’s impossible to be a man and pregnant. The “man” in question, if it’s the same one that Oprah glorified, is really a woman who had a sex change operation. So in essence, “she” is pregnant. I believe it is a sin because of the circumstances that “she” became pregnant. However, my heart goes out for the innocent who is being brought into such a confused “family”. Pray for them!
 
iaskquestions said:
I recently read the newspaper and saw a picture of the world’s first pregnant man! It was just shocking. Is it a sin? If so, why?
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Men do not have the capcicities to produce children. This WOMAN underwent a sex-change procedure. Yes it is a sin. If a Christian from Peter’s time would have seen that they would have thrown themselves to the lions. It was already a disguting thing to have homosexuals back then, but this!
 
The “man” in question was a woman who had started the process of “becoming” a man, but hadn’t finished it. That is a confused pregnant woman. I’m sure there was a sperm donor involved as well.

If a real man was to become pregnant, that would take a lot of scientific intervention, some of which might run contrary to Catholic teaching.
 
Graces_Abound said:
It certainly goes against all that God has created. It’s impossible to be a man and pregnant. The “man” in question, if it’s the same one that Oprah glorified, is really a woman who had a sex change operation. So in essence, “she” is pregnant. I believe it is a sin because of the circumstances that “she” became pregnant. However, my heart goes out for the innocent who is being brought into such a confused “family”. Pray for them!
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oh my gosh! I didn’t even think about the baby! We all have to pray for it. Maybe one day when it’s a little older it will turn on the T.V. and accidently come across EWTN.
 
Remember that this person is a woman who had her breasts removed and takes testosterone to grow facial hair. She is still a she - ovaries, uterus and DNA, I shudder to think what kind of problems she is giving to her unborn child with the daily doses of testosterone she needs to take to continue the circus act.

And shame on Oprah for drawing attention to this! She needs prayers.
 
Philothea53 said:
Remember that this person is a woman who had her breasts removed and takes testosterone to grow facial hair. She is still a she - ovaries, uterus and DNA, I shudder to think what kind of problems she is giving to her unborn child with the daily doses of testosterone she needs to take to continue the circus act.

And shame on Oprah for drawing attention to this! She needs prayers.
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They re-aired this ep on Monday of this week or it was an update. I had the same concerns because of the testosterone.
 
Philothea53 said:
Remember that this person is a woman who had her breasts removed and takes testosterone to grow facial hair. She is still a she - ovaries, uterus and DNA, I shudder to think what kind of problems she is giving to her unborn child with the daily doses of testosterone she needs to take to continue the circus act.

And shame on Oprah for drawing attention to this! She needs prayers.
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I seriously doubt she would be continuing with the testosterone whilst pregnant - for one to do so would probably have made it more difficult for her to GET pregnant, for two no medical specialist would permit it, and for all her faults she DOES want the baby so I’m sure she wont’ do anything that would harm its physical health - although she will probably take it up again some time after birth when it’s no longer an issue.
 
LilyM said:
I seriously doubt she would be continuing with the testosterone whilst pregnant - for one to do so would probably have made it more difficult for her to GET pregnant, for two no medical specialist would permit it, and for all her faults she DOES want the baby so I’m sure she wont’ do anything that would harm its physical health - although she will probably take it up again some time after birth when it’s no longer an issue.
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Maybe I misunderstood her but I thought she mentioned taking testosterone in the present tense and this was reinforced by the beard she’s sporting. But I don’t know for a fact that she is.
 
Bruised_Reed said:
Maybe I misunderstood her but I thought she mentioned taking testosterone in the present tense and this was reinforced by the beard she’s sporting. But I don’t know for a fact that she is.
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IIRC her hormones would take quite some time to regulate after she ceased taking testosterone, so the beard could remain for some time even if she wasn’t taking it 🤷

In any event, I won’t pretend to more knowledge than I have. As I said, I’m sure she wouldn’t do anything that was prejudicial to the child’s health.
 
I think that all in this thread need to be specific about what sin we are talking of here. The question asked whether or not it was a sin for a man to be “pregnant.” It seems to me that the answer here would, strictly speaking, have to be no. Pregnancy is itself only a means of incubation and life support for the developing fetus and as such there can be no moral value placed on the gender of the person who provides this support.

That said, we have not advanced far enough medically to have a pregnant man as anything but a figment of the imagination. The person we are talking of in this thread, Thomas Beatie, is a woman who has gone through so-called sex reassignment surgery to take on the appearance of a man. She elected to leave her uterus intact.

The sins we are dealing with here are mutilation and procreation outside the unitive nature of the marital act. The pregnancy itself cannot be said to be sinful even if the means of achieving it were.
 
If Arnold Swarzenager can do it then it can’t be sinful. Actually that was one of my least favorite of his movies.
 
iaskquestions said:
I recently read the newspaper and saw a picture of the world’s first pregnant man! It was just shocking. Is it a sin? If so, why?
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By being pregnant its obvious that the person is not a man but a woman.
Is it sinful. yes… but I think that this person is sick and in need of psychiatric help… instead the relativistic society has “helped” her in the worst thinkable way.
We can compare it to a case like this: a man comes in to a hospital… he is skitzofrenic and thinks that his arms and legs are his enemies. He asks the doctors to amputate his limbs. What do they do? - they DONT cut them off but help him get mentally well, right… At least I hope so.
The same with a woman who has been molested. She might hate her female parts and want to become “desexualised”… Does soeciety help her get rid of her female parts? NO, of course not… they help her deal with the trauma so that she no longer feels estranged with her own body.

A man or woman who has a sex-change operation is having a MAJOR identity crisis and should be helped…
Studies have shown that ‘changing gender’ does not help the problem go away but such people often suffer depression etc, after their operations.
These people are sick… and society should illegalize the exploitation of such individuals and get them some real help.
 
Absolutely agree with Grace.
I remember reading that a major medical institution had stopped doing sex change operations because their directors or leading surgeons (I forget exactly who) said, it was the only mental illness we tried to solve by cooperating with the delusion involved, and they were not going to do it anymore.
Wish I could remember the details.
 
I don’t see why some of you are saying it’s wrong for a gay man to have a sex change, or vise versa.

Considering most of the people who have sex changes state they were attracted to the same sex basically from early ages as 5 it makes it clear that these individuals were born gay.

But I also don’t ignore the fact that some people choose to be gay and others gradually become gay.

That being said, to say that man who was born gay cannot have a sex change it’s like saying a person with a deformed face cannot have his face changed. Or a person born with a penis and a vagina can’t have one of them removed.
 
PePPaR said:
Considering most of the people who have sex changes state they were attracted to the same sex basically from early ages as 5 it makes it clear that these individuals were born gay.
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Transsexualism and homosexuality are completely different things. The overwhelming majority of homosexuals do not feel transsexual. Statistics about transsexuals are less clear due to lower numbers, but it is common for male to female transsexuals do be attracted to women, and for female to male transsexuals to be attracted to men.

I disagree with Grace regarding the psychological benefit of sex change for transsexuals. I think most studies have shown that they function better after the change. But there is no point arguing this here, since the Church doesn’t recognize sex change.
tgcrossroads.org/news/archive.asp?aid=599

Viki, I believe you are thinking of Paul McHugh of Johns Hopkins University.
 
Other_Eric said:
The sins we are dealing with here are mutilation and procreation outside the unitive nature of the marital act. The pregnancy itself cannot be said to be sinful even if the means of achieving it were.
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You forgot to mention that it is a woman who is “married” to a woman. That is the sin of homosexuality.

In her desire to have her disorder normalized, she attempted a sex change. In her selfishness she didn’t really want to be a man, just sort of, she still wanted to have the right to bear a child, without a husband. She and her “wife” purchased the sperm donation to avoid any semblance of normalcy, all in an attempt to make normal something that is clearly disordered.

God save the baby. :gopray2:
 
I don’t know but it certainly is disordered. The reason is because it goes against the natural order for a man to be pregnant. Therefore, I’d say it is probably at least a venial sin if not a mortal sin.
 
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