Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2009, No.13 - Transgender Mom

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BLOG COMMENTARY
By Lorenzo Bozino


TRANSGENDER MOM?:

Inspiration? So I’m checking out the news, and - inspiration - big story - "Transgendered Man gives birth to second child."

I’m like - OK, that is a crock-and-a-half! My opinion is, as you well know, politically incorrect. But, you know what? I’m inspired, and its truth time.

It is OK with me if a person wants to transgender himself/herself, and I mean that in all sincerity. But let’s be honest here - A MAN DOES NOT GIVE BIRTH. I don’t care what you call this, a man - albeit transgender - did not give birth.
Way back, before VU, when I was in Military School - (I had "Blaggo-style" hair, no?) at Columbia Military Academy in Tennessee, there were lots of Southern boys, good-ole-boys - and I heard this expression, directed at me once - it was a slam, a cutting remark that went:

"Hey boy - you weren’t born ! - a crow shit on a fencepost, and the sun hatched you."

Clever way of calling someone a shit, no? (And yes, there was hazing at CMA, physical and mental, the foregoing slam being a good example of the latter. By the way, the hazing I suffered at CMA made the hazing we went through at VU seem like a cake-walk).

My point is, crows may shit, but babies are born of women, period. Only women have that capability. That is a fact, a true fact.

So, here is what I say about "Transgender Man." For purposes of birthing babies, he is, in fact, a woman (not to be confused with Van "Woman" Sayler).

End of diatribe.


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BETA PI BLOG WELCOMES JERRY NEUBURG:



So, Mark "Marlon" McGann markmcgann@prodigy.net sends me Jerry’s e-mail, and I e-mail Jerry jneuburg@olympiawest.com ! Jerry responded, and showed interest in the Blog.

Jerry is doing fine, living in Herndon, Virginia, working for OlympiaWest Mortgage, and Marlon sucks for not plugging us in to Jerry sooner.
Seriously, thanks Marlon, you are awesome (this is your best work since you found Ken Linden, which was no small feat). We’ve missed you Jerry, welcome to our Virtual Ship of Fools, the Beta Pi Blog.

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