The Gaytheist Agenda

Another day, another hate crime against a transgender woman. From The Advocate:

A Colorado man is accused of fatally battering a sex partner with a fire extinguisher after discovering that his companion was a transgender woman.

Allen Ray Andrade, 31, faces several charges, including second-degree murder, in the death of Justin Zapata, 20, who was known as Angie Zapata. The victim’s bloodied, battered body was discovered in her apartment by her sister on July 17.

Weld County district attorney Ken Buck said Wednesday that he is considering filing first-degree murder charges and may prosecute the death as a hate crime.
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Andrade told investigators that he met Zapata through MocoSpace, a social network designed primarily for cell phone users, according to an arrest affidavit released by Greeley police. The two met July 15 and spent the day together.
Andrade told investigators that Zapata performed oral sex on him but wouldn’t let him touch her, according to the affidavit.

He said he also spent the night at Zapata’s apartment, but in separate beds. The next day, Zapata left Andrade alone in her apartment, and Andrade noticed several photographs that led him to question Zapata’s gender.

Andrade confronted Zapata when she got back. He grabbed Zapata’s crotch area, felt male genitalia and became angry, the affidavit says. He told investigators that he took a fire extinguisher off a shelf, struck Zapata twice in the head, and thought he ”killed it.”
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Andrade told investigators he covered Zapata with a blanket and started gathering evidence he thought might link him to the crime when he heard gurgling sounds and noticed Zapata was sitting up. That’s when he picked up the fire extinguisher and hit her again, police said. He left the scene in her car.
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Standard way to dehumanize any transgender person. Call him or her “it”. How any of the bigots still fail to see why we’re so disgusted with them? Are they that obtuse? More likely they just don’t care. Such is the depth of their hatred.

May Allen Ray Andrade rot in prison for the rest of his life assuming he’s found guilty, which it sounds like he is.

 

Of course it was already known that Thomas Beatie was going to have a girl, but announcing it is always fun. Thomas and Nancy’s baby was born at a hospital in Bend, OR, on Sunday.

The birth at Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, who discounted earlier reports that Mr Beatie planned to have a Caesarean section.

“She’s really cute, really pretty,” the source told ABC News.

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Mr Beatie sparked an international furore in March after he announced he was pregnant. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he later told Oprah Winfrey on US televsion.

“It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”
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Many congratulations to the happy family!

 

Calpernia Addams explains it all to you, with a hefty dose of humor.

Thomas Beatie transitioned from female to male nearly a decade ago, but he didn’t have his reproductive organs removed. So when it was discovered that his wife Nancy was unable to have children, Thomas decided that he would do so. But while the experience has brought the couple closer together, it has presented many unique challenges for them.

Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns. We have only begun experiencing opposition from people who are upset by our situation. Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Health care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy’s family doesn’t even know I’m transgender.

This whole process, from trying to get pregnant to being pregnant, has been a challenge for us. The first doctor we approached was a reproductive endocrinologist. He was shocked by our situation and told me to shave my facial hair. After a $300 consultation, he reluctantly performed my initial checkups. He then required us to see the clinic’s psychologist to see if we were fit to bring a child into this world and consulted with the ethics board of his hospital. A few months and a couple thousand dollars later, he told us that he would no longer treat us, saying he and his staff felt uncomfortable working with “someone like me.”

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When I finally got pregnant for the first time, I ended up having an ectopic pregnancy with triplets. It was a life-threatening event that required surgical intervention, resulting in the loss of all embryos and my right fallopian tube. When my brother found out about my loss, he said, “It’s a good thing that happened. Who knows what kind of monster it would have been.”

“Someone like me”…”Who knows what kind of monster it would have been”. While I’m used to the bigotry of others I’m still taken aback at how hateful their words can be. Sadly some of them likely think they’re just good people espousing their “deeply held religious beliefs” and that they’re doing nothing wrong.

On successfully getting pregnant a second time, we are proud to announce that this pregnancy is free of complications and our baby girl has a clean bill of health. We are happily awaiting her birth, with an estimated due date of July 3, 2008.

How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child — I am so lucky to have such a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.

Outside the local medical community, people don’t know I’m five months’ pregnant. But our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal.

Of course the RRRW will be screeching about the notion of “redefining normal”. But from the first time that anybody adopted a child, blended families via re-marriage, utilized IVP or otherwise engaged in any form of “family building” other than plain old sex they were “redefining normal”. It’s only when people different from themselves try to build a family that the RRRW begins to have the vapors and wrings their hands about what is or is not “normal” in their very narrow viewpoint.

I think what Thomas Beatie is doing is wonderful and groundbreaking. I wish them and their daughter-to-be all the best.