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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  November 14, 2008

CONTACT:  Diane Gramley   1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

Barbara Walters Seeks to Normalize Transexual “Pregnant Man”

(Harrisburg) – Yesterday’s ‘The View’ offered a sneak preview of tonight’s 20/20 episode with Barbara Walter’s interview with the so-called ‘Pregnant Man’ from Oregon – Thomas Beatie.  During the interview the announcement is made that she is again pregnant and due in June.  The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family group, questions the reason behind a program entitled "What Is a Man, What Is a Woman? Journey of a Pregnant Man."  The AFA of PA has contacted ABC for an explanation.  

Supposedly the once Hawaiian beauty contest finalist is now a man, but common sense says otherwise.  In actuality Thomas Beatie is Tracy LaGondino, a lesbian activist who worked to get homosexual adoption and hate crimes laws passed in Hawaii before moving to Bend, Oregon.  About ten years ago she underwent self mutilation through a double radical mastectomy and began hormone therapy to change her gender to that of a male, but keeping her female reproductive organs. 

“A woman falling under the surgeon’s knife to have her breasts removed does not make her a man.  Even taking hormone treatments and having an artificial penis implanted does not change a woman into a man.   A woman is born with and has throughout her life two X chromosomes.  Thomas Beatie is still a woman whether she or Barbara Walters likes it or not,” commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA. 

According to Gramley this is simply another attempt to normalize the lifestyle of the gender confused.  And once again it is the children who are the victims – the guinea pigs – in this experimental family structure.  The daughter born in June will grow up asking what is a man and what is a woman simply because the desires of two adults – Thomas/Tracy and Nancy – outweigh what is best for children.  Now they will bring another child into this experimental family structure who will undoubtedly question his or her gender as well.

“A woman getting pregnant should not be news.  ABC and other news outlets seek the sensational to sell their programs and promoting a so-called ‘pregnant man’ does just that.  A man, no matter how much Tracy LaGondino or Barbara Walters would like to say otherwise, cannot get pregnant . . . period.  Biologically that is impossible and biologically Tracy LaGondino will always be a woman no matter how many hormone treatments she takes or how long her beard gets,” Gramley further stated.

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