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“How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.”

Thomas Beatie, who describes himself as a transgender male, claims in a magazine article that he is five months pregnant. He kept his reproductive organs after his sex-change operation (The Advocate, Los Angeles, 25 March)

“The banks should have embraced this wholeheartedly and they didn’t. But it’s a start.”

Cathy Flanagan, one of the organisers of Earth Hour, a timed voluntary blackout in cities all over the world to highlight…

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