If technology became available that would allow men to carry children, how many do you think would volunteer?

Alot of them, eventually. If only because men seem to think they can do anything better. But I stereotype.

But yes, really. I think alot of men really would choose to carry children if it were possible. It's currently not possible so it's easy to naysay. But I know too many guys who have voiced their own curiosity, and they weren't all transgendered either.

What Beatie has done discredits all trans people.

The same can be said of any MTF transwoman who ever had an erection, ever sired a child, ever had male/female sexual intercourse preoperatively. Transgender people have the bodies that they have. Period. The same is true for any of us, transgender or not. How you choose to live in the reality of your own body is your own decision to make.

I personally don't see what the big deal is in viewing Beatie as a man with female reproductive organs, but I understand that most people do. He could choose to remove these organs to prove to me that he's really the man he claims to be, but ultimately, what does that get him? My stamp of approval?

I mean you no disrespect. My cousin, an MTF transwoman, who was as close to me as a sister (tho I didn't understand how that was possible) completely turned my head around on the reality of her struggle. There are plenty of things I could hold against her in the "not really a woman" dept... she went thru a period of claiming to be a gay man. She lost her virginity to a girl. She peed standing up until she was 15. I even walked in on her playing with herself in the shower once. All of these were typical male things to do. But what the hell, she had to live in this world with the body she had. And if I was in her shoes with her same body I probably would have done alot of the same things. ( I for one know that if I woke up with a dick tomorrow I would be sticking it everywhere I could out of curiosity. How typically male is that? )

The novelty would wear off soon I'm sure... and once I got over that, would having a penis really make me, the woman I know myself to be, a man? Would refusing to use my penis if I had one make me more of a woman? Or would my having opposite sex plumbing just be my cross to bear, however I could?