Mpreg is real? Oh bloody hell ...

[blamebrampton]

From the local paper.

In other news, things are chaotic but will return to something resembling normal tomorrow. Possibly the day after.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Of course he has facial hair and a masculine appearance. Going off T for a few months is not going to magically make him look female again. Going off T causes a surge of estrogen (and other female hormones?) back into the system, so a guy will (probably) get his period again, thus allowing him to get pregnant, but it won't undo the changes such as facial and body hair, clit growth, deeper voice, etc.

He's also not the first transguy to get pregnant. The most well-known example is Patrick Califia's former partner, Matt Rice, who is also FtM and bore their child (article (http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0025,califia-rice,15833,1.html); wow, that was over eight years ago).


(Here via friendsfriends, btw.)

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

Wow, goes to show how little I know. I had no idea that a transman's appearance wouldn't revert back to female after going off T. *goes to check out Matt Rice article*

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy_%28female-to-male%29) on hormone replacement therapy for transmen is pretty thorough. (On HRT for transwomen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy_%28male-to-female%29) might also interest you.) Basically, it's easy to add changes with testosterone and hard to take them away. T induces many permanent changes, whether occuring naturally in male puberty or in HRT. So, for example, even giving transwomen estrogen and giving them androgen blockers will not reverse the changes they went through in puberty.

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

hah just wanted to go off on a research spree because I thought so, too, but had no facts to present. And thanks for the above link, too. I was searching for something like this the whole morning. (I haven't known this specific instance but I've read on transgender support sites when I was researching for a fic that FTM getting pregnant and carrying the baby to term has been known to happen.)

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

I take it back. Looking at the picture, I have read about this.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

No problem. I had that link handy because someone else posted the same thing last week and a commenter was saying something about how many doctors didn't want to treat him because of not wanting the media attention for a breakthrough like this and I was like, dude, I know this is not the first! And then I had fun googling stuff like "Patrick Califia partner pregnancy" trying to find some info, because I couldn't remember the guy's name. XD I didn't realise it had been so long, though. (Aside: apparently ftm also stands for "first-time mother", which makes searching for "ftm pregnancy" really fruitless!)

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

heh I searched for 'transgender' because they usually feel the need to explain what FTM is for the general audience's benefit. :D (Still couldn't find anything else than this case, though.)