The New York Times has a piece Tuesday headlined, “Adventures in Transgender Fertility,” in which writer Joanne Spataro tries to explain the complications of having a baby “the old-fashioned way” with her trans woman fiancée.
I’m a lesbian. My fiancée is a trans woman. We’re trying to have a baby the old-fashioned way. It’s complicated, writes @lookitsjoanne. https://t.co/mofnIIfZly
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) April 24, 2018
Um…we have VASTLY different definitions of "old fashioned." https://t.co/5AlFt9rCJT
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) April 24, 2018
Is it really that complicated, though?
You are a biological woman. Your fiancee is a biological man. You're trying to have a baby the same way humans have had babies for all of time. https://t.co/Rq1m2vIRK8
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 24, 2018
Actually, it's not that complicated because your fiance still has a penis. https://t.co/0evpdNPXn5
— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) April 24, 2018
No… this tweet is complicated. Middle school biology isn’t. https://t.co/qzjMe8Ra71
— Samuel Bujnarowksi (@SDB_SKI) April 24, 2018
I’m pretty open minded about a lot of issues, but if a person with a penis and a person with a vagina can’t figure out how to reproduce, maybe they shouldn’t. https://t.co/Q1qRvCJnOq
— daniel (@danielSEM2004) April 24, 2018
You have a vagina. He has a penis. Just… have sex. https://t.co/4p2J0L9S7W
— Captain Cumberground (@CptCumberground) April 24, 2018
Actually, it’s pretty basic man and woman stuff… https://t.co/EAf8QGwqgt
— PD (@DEMI_524) April 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/988916092126007301
BREAKING: Woman wants to have baby with man, stay tuned for more. https://t.co/bzfaTlayzS
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) April 24, 2018
We're hitting levels of 2018 that shouldn't even be possible. https://t.co/ecC24leb9x
— N. Bourbaki (@d08890) April 24, 2018
This is just straight with extra steps https://t.co/jQB3HC4crG
— M@ Edwards (@MattGOG666) April 24, 2018
This makes my brain hurt https://t.co/d9npFS9XzE
— Grayson Friar (@graysonfriar) April 24, 2018
Um, man+woman+sex=baby. Nothing complicated about it from a biological perspective. Don’t confuse it. It’s called science. https://t.co/flnUNzRVq4
— Abe Lee (@abe_lee1) April 24, 2018
You are a biological woman. Your fiancee is a biological man. You're trying to have a baby the same way humans have had babies for all of time. https://t.co/tOW5mFIr5H
— Ron Defreest (@RecklessRon86) April 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/988895764536377344
A marriage between a biological man and a biological woman trying to have a baby, this isn’t old fashioned, this is quasi-normal and literally the only way to produce a child https://t.co/0wyeL6WAcW
— Reagan Meredith (@rmeredith2053) April 24, 2018
The old fashioned way… you mean how everyone else does? https://t.co/oih4885ldR
— Sensical Politics (@SensicalPol) April 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/RJ___RJ/status/988915327630180353
OK, just to give some idea of why it’s “complicated”:
The return of her testosterone hasn’t resulted in just the resurgence of facial hair; her pants now fit differently, too. My own skin has been plagued by acne since I got off the pill six months ago, and my default states are angry, hungry or sleeping. Such are the perils of trying to have a child the way Lara and I are trying, without in vitro fertilization, or cryogenically frozen sperm. The way fertile cisgender people do: They simply couple up, and boom — a child is born.
https://twitter.com/Trey_Keys/status/988914421912268800
It's so complicated that everyone in my subdivision has done it. https://t.co/Jc3vVTa6rL
— prop op (@ProperOpinion) April 24, 2018
I’ve got nothing. https://t.co/Jff1fYCIL8
— Raye LaPlante (@rmlaplante) April 24, 2018
Look at this ratio https://t.co/GjbCRMXTyE
— Online Guy (@CollingtonSam) April 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/Andrea_I_Am/status/988909767979659266
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