Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl
July 4, 2008
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A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender reassignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported today.
Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy, attracted worldwide attention in April after revealing his pregnancy.
The 34-year-old gave birth to a baby girl at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, America’s ABC News reported, without providing further details.
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Mr Beatie, who sports a beard, was dubbed the “pregnant man” after appearing on Oprah Winfrey’s television talkshow to discuss his pregnancy.
“I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child,” he told the chat show queen.
The unusual situation first became public when he wrote an article in the US gay magazine The Advocate in March.
“To our neighbours, my wife, Nancy, and I don’t appear in the least unusual,” he wrote.
His wife was unable to have a child after undergoing a hysterectomy, so he chose to become pregnant by artificial insemination, he said.
“Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns,” Mr Beatie wrote, adding the couple had experienced opposition from health care professionals, friends and family.
One doctor refused to treat the couple, after consulting an ethics board.
“How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible. Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am,” Beatie wrote.
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Longer term I wonder what effect this will have on his daughter as she grows up?
First of all he is not a man; he is transgender; meaning he looks like a man but has a vagina, so “him” having a baby is not all that impossible. What I don’t understand is why would a woman take hormones to look a man to have sexual relations with a man. It just does not make sense. I would think that someone would have a “sex exchange” to be with someone of their original sex. People in this world are crazy!. “He” is crazy!