What next for chaps — breast feeding?

THE papers are full of stories about ‘men’ having babies. I’m very happy for them, but let’s be honest: they’re not ‘men’ in the true sense of the word.

So let’s stop pretending they are. Men don’t have ovaries and can’t give birth.

They are women who have decided to become men and elected to have sex-change surgery. But because they wanted the best of both worlds, they froze their eggs before undergoing gender reassignment.

Hayden Cross was born a girl called Paige, but put sex-change treatment on hold while she got pregnant using sperm from a donor she found on Facebook.

Who said romance was dead? Yet we are all supposed to celebrate this fairytale love story. The usual loud-mouthed suspects will no doubt start screaming about ‘transphobia’ but, I emphasise, I’m not trying to ban anything here.

However, that doesn’t stop me — and millions of others — wondering whether this is a proper way to behave.

not least Hayden Cross’s family. Her uncle says he’s worried about the child, who won’t be able to avoid growing up seriously confused.

Grandmother Christine edgeworth said: ‘She’s asked me to call her Hayden, but I can’t. In my eyes she will always be Paige. She wasn’t born a boy.’

Precisely. And here’s what baffles me — and, presumably, everyone else who accepts the right of others to have a sex change. If you decide to identify as a man, why would you want to give birth?

That’s what women do.