Thomas Beatie, a married man who used to be a woman, is pregnant with a baby girl
A married man who used to be a woman says that he is pregnant and will give birth to a baby girl in July.
�How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible,� wrote Thomas Beatie, 34, from the Pacific North West of the United States, in the latest issue of the gay magazine The Advocate.
�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.�
Mr Beatie was born female, named Tracy Lagondino, but had gender reassignment surgery and is now legally male and married to a woman.
He decided to carry a baby for his wife, Nancy, because she had a hysterectomy years ago. He was able to get pregnant because he kept his female organs when he switched genders.
�Sterilisation is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,� he writes. �Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire but a human desire.� The couple, who have been together for ten years, run a custom screenprinting business in Bend, Oregon, where neighbours do not know that Mr Beatie was once a woman.
�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,� he wrote.
Before becoming pregnant, Mr Beatie stopped the testosterone injections he was receiving as part of his gender reassignment. �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 oestrogen, progesterone or fertility drugs to aid my pregnancy,� he wrote.
The couple bought donor vials from a cryogenic sperm bank and, facing resistance and prejudice from doctors, resorted to home insemination. �Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Healthcare professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognise 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,� he said.
Mr Beatie�s first successful insemination ended in a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy with triplets that required surgery, resulting in the loss of all his embryos and his 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?�,� he wrote.
The second pregnancy resulted in a baby girl who is due to be born on July 3. �I will be my daughter�s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family,� he wrote.
Mr Beatie would not be the first transgender man to give birth, according to Lisa Masterson, an obstetrician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.
�A transgender man can be pregnant because he has the same organs as a woman,� Dr Masterson said on the ABC Good Morning America show.
Dr Masterson said, however, that transgendered men face special health risks resulting from their sex change. �It�s really important that he doesn�t take any testosterone early on in the pregnancy and later on,� she said. �That can cause male-type characteristics in the female baby.�
Some of the Beaties� neighbours in Bend voiced scepticism about the pregnancy claim. One resident, Josh Love, told ABC: �I couldn�t say that he looks pregnant. I can stick my stomach out and almost make it look like that. I think it�s kind of bizarre. I don�t know if I believe it or not.�
The Advocate said it had confirmed the story with Mr Beatie�s doctor.
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