fredag den 20. januar 2023

The Pregnant Man

Sanju Bhagat  as a child and as a grown man
 

In this photo of the Indian farmer Sanju Bhagat he looks pregnant, but how is that possible when he was born a man? As we know it's impossible, so when first I saw this photo I thought that he had some kind of liver failure as that also may give skinny people like Sanju Bhagat a big, bulking belly. The doctors who eventually stepped in and saved the poor farmer at first were convinced that he was suffering from some kind of life threatening tumor. That's why they adviced him to have surgery when at last he was forced to go to hospital because his big belly made it difficult for him to breathe. Up till then he had declined any suggestions of seeing a doctor because he knew that they and their treatments were expensive, also because he would have to take leave from his work. Something he hated even to think of as he was the supporter of his family even though his hard work in the fields brought on back pains and other problems.

Yes, that would be some kind of new sport, but also an impossible feat for the so-called "strong sex". However, some transgender men who were born as women might give birth. Last year that happened for instance for Trystan Reese, but he is not the only transgender man who has had a baby as there are more before him. However, in my optic, this kind of birth can't be seen as a genuine male incidence so I'm still of the opinion that an individual, born as a man, may father children, but he can't give birth as he doesn't have a uterus and a vagina.


Trystan Reese with his newborn baby (2022)

 

No, there are no appropriate suggestions except a Caesarian and - in a way - that's what Sanju Bhagat had when the doctors opened his belly in 1999 and took "the tumor" out of him. However, this "tumor" was something very special as it turned out to be the living, but now dying, unborn baby brother of Sanju Bhagat. Somehow it had been growing within him, sustained by the food he had, just like had he really been pregnant. Looking at the lump of flesh that might have been a child, but ended up as the corpse of a very deformed fetus, one might ask how that was even possible. To me one of the weirdest things is that this fetus is rather developed and that it came out alive which I suppose means that at some point it was living a kind of "life". Maybe it even had thoughts and emotions ....


Yes - in a way  - Sanju Bhagat really was "pregnant"
 

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