Former Hawaiian beauty queen, Thomas Beatie, age 34, is now pregnant and married to a woman. See the interview with photos on the Oprah site. When queried about why he kept female reproductive organs after the sex change, Thomas replied that he wanted to have a baby some day. He/she commented: “It’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he said. “It’s a human desire. I have a very stable male identity.”
Of course, the alarming and disconcerting issue here is not her desire to have a child, but rather the gender and identity confused environment in which that child will be raised. By altering her natural gender, Thomas has redefined his/her identity, an identity that, at its core, is artificially and sexually constructed.