Gary Bauer has this commentary in Human Events:
Thomas Beattie’s pregnancy is making headlines across the country. (Google “pregnant man” and you’ll get nearly a million references.) Not surprisingly, the 34-year-old from Bend, Oregon, became a media sensation after appearing on “Oprah” and telling her that “he” was looking forward to the birth of “his” “miracle” daughter, due in July.There’s just one problem: Beattie is not a man. She is a woman. Beattie legally became a “man” a decade ago. But at the most basic anatomical and chromosomal levels, Beattie is still a woman. . . .
In a healthy society, we would be compassionately seeking counseling for people who cannot come to terms with their sex. But in America today, it’s the parents who must come to terms with their children’s transgenderism. A new clinic at Children’s hospital in Boston offers hormone treatment to children as young as 12 years old and related treatments to kids as young as 7 years old. College campuses are also on the frontlines of the battle for pubic acceptance of transgenderism. At least 147 colleges and universities now include “gender identity and expression” in their non-discrimination policies . . .
