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The implication that women can get pregnant but that men cannot is deeply harmful and transphobic. Please reconsider your assertion.


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> The overwhelming majority of men can't get pregnant.

Human males obviously can't get pregnant, only human females.


> Some men can be pregnant

Only if you define man in a way such that any person can claim manhood.


> 100% of the males who get naturally pregnant.

Almost, some trans men can get pregnant. But I am being pedantic.


Trans men can get pregnant. That's just reality. IWD has nothing to do with it.

Transgendered men can become pregnant, yes. Literally.

Pedantically some (trans) men can get pregnant.

Downvotes for pointing out something that has happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie


As long as you don't say "Men can't get pregnant!!"

>Pregnancy isn't something women do by themselves. There's going to be a man involved.

Plenty of women use sperm banks...

This is very much the exception and yes, a man is involved, but the transaction is 100% voluntary on the part of the woman without any specific intent towards that specific woman on the part of the man.


I think you're straw-manning the "common sense" view. "Unable to get pregnant" is actually not a common definition of "male", afaics

Men can not be pregnant, that’s what makes them men

Are you actually retarded? Everything, and I mean everything he said was correct. Men cannot get pregnant, if you truly think they can, then please just jump off a bridge. People like you are truly corrupting our country into thinking that these VERY REAL problems shouldn’t be talked about

A man cannot get pregnant. This is not something that any medical advance can change.

Lol it's both. Men don't get pregnant

Scientific fact is no longer fact, but merely a social construct. Even though it is scientifically impossible for a man to get pregnant, that statement might hurt someone’s feelings so it must be banned.

Honest question here: are there trans men that want to get pregnant? What fraction of trans men want to get pregnant? I get this is tangential to the discussion and I get I am betraying my ignorance, but it is not particularly easy to find information on this question and it seems somewhat pertinent to the practicalities of this issue.

We're not talking 95%/5% here, more 99.99995 / 0.00005%.

And trying to even argue that men cannot be pregnant is even doing too much. It is as insane as trying to "debate" whether the earth is round.


If a man has a functional uterus, he can get pregnant. Some transmen have functional uteruses, therefore they can get pregnant.

There are many people who don't know the difference between a transman and a transwoman. If you say a transwoman can't get pregnant, then you're right. If you say a transman can't get pregnant, then you're factually wrong, there's been quite a few.


A man is an adult male human. Getting pregnant is proof that a person is not a man.

> (as if men aren't also fertile)

What do you mean by this? It takes 2 people of the opposite sex to make a baby.

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