Hi Tiger, my response was actually aimed at puddicat not you, who was the one who mentioned politcal correctness.
"stop all pc nonsense,bet u the child will have to protected in some form for the rest of its life".(sic)
I was trying to point out that if everyone wasn't so interested in making judgements and assumptions about, well most things and people really, then the world would be a far happier , far less strife filled place.
It's my understanding that the legalities of this is that the person who carried the child is now 'legally' male, and lives as a man ( albeit the pregnancy is a bit of a diversion from that:).
Clearly we all know that he had to genetically start out being female, but the complexities that surround someone of trans gender are very psychologically deep and involved and I'm certainly not going to be the person to tell him that he's a woman, when he clearly feels that not to be the case and has undergone significant surgery to begin to remedy that and to live as a male. It's not my call. It's his life and the life of his child.
I'm sure none of us are perfect parents, we all make errors of judgement, yet whoever someone is, if they are stable, happy and willing to bring to birth and parent their child in a loving environment then surely that's something we should want more of.
If people view the child or her parents as a freak show, then that's their cross to bear and hopefully the child will have a stable enough home life to realise that and not be adversely affected.