A Note On The Objection To Saying “Only Women Can Become Pregnant”

 “Only women can get pregnant” is apparently objectionable.

The argument is, to say so denigrates women who’ve transitioned to men, but men who can become pregnant. 

However, does such true transitioning require a vaginectomy and a metoidioplasty?

Why not?

If it does, can’t we say these trans men cannot become pregnant, just as born men who stay men cannot?

Does that meet the objection? 

The argument might be, there are born women who cannot for whatever biological reason become pregnant: does this mean they’re not women?

But doesn’t this argument suffers from logical inversion? 

To say only women can become pregnant is not to say women who can’t become pregnant aren’t women. It’s only to say only women can become pregnant, which is the original proposition under scrutiny.

It logically leaves open the claims that men can fully transition to become women and women can to become men, which both form a different issue.

Here, only the objection to the claim that only women can become pregnant is under scrutiny.