When I first read the headline, and then also saw a sensational teaser on a local news station, I thought wow, a man has truly conceived?  This must be the most amazing thing in human history that’s recently happened.  A medical and anatomical impossibility, right?  Wrong.  What they didn’t disclose in the sensationalistic title of the news story was that the “man” was actually a former female who went through a sex change.

And, further, what makes this story even less interesting is that the former female “man” also didn’t undergo a full sex change, which means all of her female sexual parts were still intact so that she could still become pregnant, even if she were taking hormones, etc.  Not so exceptional a story anymore, huh? 

I have to rant a bit here.  I get really tired of the “news” making headlines that are sensationalistic so much so that they almost lie to the reader, to get them to read what is ultimately a really lame and boring story that is nothing less than un-extraordinary.  This news story I’m sure got clicked on a lot on all the news sites it was on, and also got watched a lot on the news shows that were clever enough to disguise the fact that it was in fact a former female that was pregnant and not a biologically born man, to get you to watch the story in hopes of seeing some new medical anomale.  No, it was really just a farce! 

In the pictures you see the man’s obviously “manly” belly protruding with what looks like an obvious pregnancy, so it does appear the pregnancy is real.  It does make you look twice at the pictures when you see a hairy belly with a protruding pregnant look to it, I have to admit, but that hope that its’ a new medical mystery is dashed as soon as you read further. 

Enough with the sensationalist headlines!  And while we’re at it, can we stop making celebirty’s lives newsworthy?  The obsession with celebrity is really disgusting these days, especially when you see it as the second headline down on major journalistic, supposedly respected news leaders like CNN and MSNBC.