12th June 2009, 7:05 AM
How did the issue of tolerance come into this anyway? I'm not intolerant of this person's desire to be another gender. If that's what makes him happy, who am I to judge? This goes back to biology. No matter how deeply he feels that he should be a man, he is still physically a woman, so this issue is not about a "pregnant man" as if this is some startling new scientific discovery, that men can get pregnant. Though he is mentally a man, he is still biologically a woman. This issue is about a pregnant woman who doesn't want to be a woman at all, who doesn't feel he is a woman or that he should be a woman, but no matter how strongly he feels about the situation, he will always lack a Y chromosome and the sexual reproductive characteristics of a man.
The best he can do is have plastic surgery to shape his vagina into something resembling a penis, and beyond being able to urinate from said penis, he is unable to function as a man any further than that. He still has ovaries and a womb. That's something every transsexual should be aware of before having a sex change. Though it may not be the case with this person, some people don't seem to be aware that sex change operations are just cosmetic and do not biologically change one's gender. Mental gender? That's a whole other issue.
The best he can do is have plastic surgery to shape his vagina into something resembling a penis, and beyond being able to urinate from said penis, he is unable to function as a man any further than that. He still has ovaries and a womb. That's something every transsexual should be aware of before having a sex change. Though it may not be the case with this person, some people don't seem to be aware that sex change operations are just cosmetic and do not biologically change one's gender. Mental gender? That's a whole other issue.