Pregnant Man Gives Birth! Thomas Beatie is Pregnant Again

Pregnant Man Says He's Pregnant. Again Gives Birth! As seen on Oprah, View, 20/20, Barbara Walters, Larry King, CNN, Discovery Health, GMA, Insider, Channel 4, BBC.

The man, who used to be a woman, was able to keep the reproductive organs he was born with.

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Labor of Love
Transman Thomas Beatie gives The Advocate a first-person account of how it feels to be pregnant and carrying a child for his wife and himself.
Thomas Beatie
From The Advocate March 25, 2008
Labor of Love

To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don't appear in the least unusual. To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just as we are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy our first home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is, until we decided that I would carry our child.

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.

Ten years ago, when Nancy and I became a couple, the idea of us having a child was more dream than plan. I always wanted to have children. However, due to severe endometriosis 20 years ago, Nancy had to undergo a hysterectomy and is unable to carry a child. But after the success of our custom screen-printing business and a move from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest two years ago, the timing finally seemed right. I stopped taking my bimonthly testosterone injections. It had been roughly eight years since I had my last menstrual cycle, so this wasn't a decision that I took lightly. My body regulated itself after about four months, and I didn't have to take any exogenous estrogen, progesterone, or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy.

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.

This whole process, from trying to get pregnant to being pregnant, has been a challenge for us. The first doctor we approached was a reproductive endocrinologist. He was shocked by our situation and told me to shave my facial hair. After a $300 consultation, he reluctantly performed my initial checkups. He then required us to see the clinic's psychologist to see if we were fit to bring a child into this world and consulted with the ethics board of his hospital. A few months and a couple thousand dollars later, he told us that he would no longer treat us, saying he and his staff felt uncomfortable working with "someone like me."

In total, nine different doctors have been involved. This is why it took over one year to get access to a cryogenic sperm bank to purchase anonymous donor vials, and why Nancy and I eventually resorted to home insemination.

When I finally got pregnant for the first time, I ended up having an ectopic pregnancy with triplets. It was a life-threatening event that required surgical intervention, resulting in the loss of all embryos and my right fallopian tube. When my brother found out about my loss, he said, "It's a good thing that happened. Who knows what kind of monster it would have been."

On successfully getting pregnant a second time, we are proud to announce that this pregnancy is free of complications and our baby girl has a clean bill of health. We are happily awaiting her birth, with an estimated due date of July 3, 2008.

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. In a technical sense I see myself as my own surrogate, though my gender identity as male is constant. To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child -- I am so lucky to have such a loving, supportive wife. I will be my daughter's father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.

Outside the local medical community, people don't know I'm five months' pregnant. But our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal.

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[sherman546]

Take it easy little girl. Is he your sister or something? I mean is she your brother? I mean is that a relative? I'm just having some fun on Youtube. Don't be such a twat.

[sherman546]

@DoctorRainbow8321 You'd know. Hey,there's a Will & Grace marathon this weekend. Why don't you invite your girlboyfriend over, snuggle up on the couch and reassure eachother that you're both comfortable with your sexuality.

[philipmarie1854]

I undersand being gay. Gays are born gay, no doubt about it though I disagree with those who are promiscous just as society condemns straight teens who are promiscous (and for the record, I don't watch Maury nor Springer AT ALL. Screw them). I can understand transsexuality. But this? If you want to become a a man, you lose all rights to bearing children. This was no act of love between spouses, nor was it for the children, this 'ma'n' who still kept his female organs is either insane or a cruel.

[TheSinjingideon]

this is wrong on so many levels he was a woman but wanted to be a man ok had operation to be man im thinking is he lost all rights to become pregnant cause everyone knows men dont have babies ONLY MALE SEAHORSES have babys , make money from it he could have kept quiet about it but he wants money

[PEARLZFAN]

We have to realize that when they (government) to religion out of the u.s that's when u open the door for all this wicked stuff. Not to offend anybody but Christianity was the religion birthed in the u.s now u can't pray in schools and now look at the schools today. Shootings and kids being gay comin up missing this is not the true will of God. I'm not a Pastor or nothing I'm just a man trying to be pleasing to God. So if your not a religious person then u might need to be

[PEARLZFAN]

Wow. People please understand that God's (Jesus) whole intent was for man and woman to be together none of this other freaky stuff. We as people have to understand that in the garden of eden the devil ued trickery to get eve by telling her if she eat of the forbidden fruit then we will be as gods (idol) and no good and evil. So therefore we have these people that's going against the will of God and really having pople fooled. And man can not hve a baby neither can a woman be a father.

[MrQwertymang]

ok so this was still technically a girl giving birth not a full blown man, i was bout to get hella scared, there is no way im shoving a baby threw this dick, no sir. the day men can give birth to the child, im going celebate or however you spell it.

[Vhakkox]

Not a man, just a chick with no tits and a beard.

[SovietProduction]

hes not a man! lol

[Chuckscott]

So I'm going to get shots and take pills and grow tits but keep my dick and balls. I'm going to get a woman pregnant. So then I'll get a lot of publicity that a woman gets a woman pregnant??!??? A woman fathers a baby. Is that how that works??? I just want to get this right now.

[timothyandanna]

these kids are going to grow up all messed in the head

[timothyandanna]

what the fuck has this world come to.