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Pregnant man does it again

14 Nov, 2008 10:14 AM
A US transgender man is pregnant with his second child, he told American television diva Barbara Walters in his first interview since he gave birth to baby Susan in June.

Thomas Beatie, who is 34 and sports a beard, told Walters he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone after Susan's birth because he and his wife Nancy wanted to have another baby.

"I feel good," he said in the interview which will air on US network ABC on Friday.

"I had my checkups with my hormone level... everything is right on track," he said, adding that the couple's second child is due June 12.

In the interview with Walters, Beatie also spoke about the birth of Susan, describing how he was in labor for 40 hours and his wife, Nancy, cut the umbilical cord of their daughter, who was not delivered by Caesarean section.

Thomas Beatie was born and grew up in Hawaii.

Known as Tracy when he was a girl, Beatie entered the Miss Teen Hawaii USA beauty contest at age 14 and made it to the finals, but says in the interview with ABC that he felt uncomfortable throughout the pageant.

Beatie began a lesbian relationship with his current wife Nancy when he was 24, and in 2002, had "sex reassignment surgery" to remove his breasts.

But he never had phalloplasty -- surgery to create an artificial penis -- and left his female reproductive organs in place, according to ABC.

He and Nancy were legally married in 2003 and decided to start a family.

But because Nancy had had a hysterectomy, it would fall to Thomas to carry the child.

He stopped taking the male hormone testosterone and the couple looked for a doctor who would help them obtain sperm and inseminate Thomas.

After nine doctors declined to help, the Beaties decided to take the do-it-yourself route.

"First, they bought donor sperm on the Internet and Nancy Beatie used a syringe she had bought at a pet store to inseminate her husband," ABC News reported.

"Soon after, a home pregnancy test confirmed that he was pregnant."

It was not immediately clear if the couple used the same method to conceive their second child.

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THIS IS NOT A MAN GIVING BIRTH TO A CHILD-IT'S O WOMAN!!!Why do the media sensationalise EVERYTHING?I cannot see a "real man"having a baby in my,my children's or even my grand-childrens lifetime.Wot a load of crap!IT should accept the fact that IT"LL NEVER be a man,EVER!!!I am proud to be a REAL WOMAN and am ashamed that IT puts ITSELF in the same catergory as me.I think IT must be terribly mentally ill.Sad really.
Posted by pt playm8, 10/06/2009 12:08:46 PM
sticking feathers up your butt doesn't make you a chicken - tyler durden. i enjoy being a man and laugh that women want to share in a mans pain and vice-versa -- i don't know what it's like to bare a child (don't want to know either - and i give women kudos for that natural process). enjoy being born the way you were. you cannot say to the sun, i have no need of you, or say to your ears that you no longer need them that you're tired of hearing and you cannot say to the lion don't go into your den - after all, this isn't evolution by any means
Posted by AmericanPsycko, 16/11/2008 6:56:25 AM
So it's a woman who wants to be a man but still have the natural "capabilities" of a woman? That's just dumb. Freaking weirdos.
Posted by thisisdumb, 14/11/2008 6:35:07 PM
why are you sensationalizing a worthless piece of skin like that.
Posted by retaRTED, 14/11/2008 5:58:05 PM
Enough of the fantansies. Men dont have babies only women and thats exactly what this is.
Posted by em, 14/11/2008 5:01:32 PM
This is not a man, it is a woman. Just because her breasts have been removed and she is taking male hormones does not make her a man. What if a female dressed up in a horse costume and gave birth, would the headline read "Horse gives birth to human"?
Posted by neilabraham, 14/11/2008 3:24:38 PM
For heaven's sake - 'he' is not a man. He is still physically a woman who just keeps insisting that mentally he is a woman and is taking hormones. This media con that this is a 'man giving birth' is just a beat up. Get over it.
Posted by What a con, 14/11/2008 3:02:05 PM
I think i's miseleading when the media keep referring to the 'pregnant man'. This person was born a woman with reproductive female organs. It is hardly like a REAL pregnant man or a medical miracle!. Warped perhaps.....
Posted by not a man...., 14/11/2008 2:26:27 PM
Good on him for still wanting to embrace his feminity and haveing these children. True they may not grow up in your everyday household but the children will have 2 parents who love them dearly.
Posted by Aussie_mum02, 14/11/2008 2:06:07 PM
Not all women can carry a child to term but everybody that can carry a child to term is a women regardless if they multilate their breasts and/or take foreign substances to alter their appearence. If she wants to be a man she should remove her uterus (men don't have them).
Posted by Andrew, 14/11/2008 1:54:55 PM

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