It is definitely a sensational story that a "man" is pregnant, although "his" biological sex during pregnancy is female (he quit testosterone to prepare for it and has female reproductive organs so it is possible). While it is also a lesbian marriage, it is paradoxically a normal marriage as well due to the particularity. I believe it is closely related to queer theory. According to the queer theory, nobody is "queer" or minority as desire is queer and everybody has desire. Considering the pivotal concept of the theory, Thomas Beatie is no different from couples I see everyday. Instead, he just went through a surgery to gain biological sex he believes to belong. The surgery enables him to be a male but measure of the surgery still leaves it possible for him to act as a female - through the most obvious way, carrying a baby.
Thinking how his story is related to the queer theory also reminds me of intersectionality. Though the case is pretty different from an example suggested from the class - African-American women in 1960s - Mr. Beatie achieves seemingly impossible mission of being man and woman at the same time. This is a significant event in LGBT's struggle for full rights as rest of the society. While Mr. Beatie is legally a man, "she" is also a woman through carrying a baby. Being forced to modify previous system of defining mother and father, the society and American government would have to find a new mechanism so that biological sex-based nomenclature of mother and father should better describe parents from gay couples, lesbian couples and potentially more "Mr. Beaties" to come in future.
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