Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who made headlines as the so-called "pregnant man," gave birth today to a healthy baby girl, ABC News has learned.
Beatie was impregnated with sperm from a donor. His wife, Nancy, inseminated him at home with a device she said was like a syringe without the needle. They bought it from a veterinarian and it is typically used to feed birds.
He has an intact vagina, but he has not yet revealed how he delivered the baby.
Oh my shit...imagine if the Discovery Channel had made a special on him...
The transgender man who made worldwide headlines dubbed as "The Pregnant Man," Thomas Beattie just became a father to the baby girl he carried, according to ABC News.
A source told ABC News the birth was natural, despite earlier reports Beatie had gone in for a scheduled C-section. The baby was born at a hospital in Bend, Oregon.
Beattie, a female to male trans man, formerly named Tracy Lagondino, told The Advocate this March that he became pregnant and carried the child since his wife Nancy, who'd had a hysterectomy, could no longer have children.
A firestorm of media followed The Advocate's breaking news about the then six-month pregnant Beattie, including Beattie and his wife making a highly-publicized appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In a letter to The Advocate that ran in late March, Beattie wrote, "I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire."
Beattie, who has broken down barriers and perceptions about transgender people, as well as sparked outrage among conservatives, also told The Advocate, "Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns. We have only begun experiencing opposition from people who are upset by our situation. Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Health care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy's family doesn't even know I'm transgender."
But despite the discrimination he, Nancy and her two daughters from a previous relationship have faced, Beattie ultimately wrote, "How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible."
The birth at Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, who discounted earlier reports that Mr Beatie planned to have a Caesarean section.
"She's really cute, really pretty," the source told ABC News.
Mr Beatie, 34, was born a woman - Tracey Lagondino - but had his breasts surgically removed and began taking males hormones several years ago.
He legally changed his gender, grew a wispy beard and married a woman but retained his primary female sexual organs so he could one day get pregnant.
His wife, Nancy, with whom he ran a screenprinting business, had had a hysterectomy some years earlier.
Mr Beatie sparked an international furore in March after he announced he was pregnant. "I feel it's not a male or female desire to have a child," he later told Oprah Winfrey on US televsion.
"It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child."
Before becoming pregnant, Mr Beatie stopped the testosterone injections he had been receiving for his sex change.
He and his wife bought donor vials from a cryogenic sperm bank and - following opposition from doctors - he was inseminated at home.
Doctors say Mr Beatie is not the first transgender man to give birth. Writing in March, he said: "I will be my daughter's father and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family."
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I am so fucking disturbed by this... :shudders:
