Thomas Beatie: Gives Birth to a Baby Girl

After I found this bizarre story online, I realized that this is very serious situation. I mean who would have ever thought that this would happen? I got this source from the ABC News.

The birth, at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, who added that reports that Beatie had had a Caesarean section are false.

"She's really cute, really pretty,'' the source told ABC News Thursday afternoon.

The source said Beattie was resting and the family was focusing its attention on the new baby.

Born a woman, Beatie, 34, who had had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender from female to male, leaped to prominence around the world in April when the wispy bearded man revealed he was pregnant.

Despite years of taking hormones and living outwardly as a man, Beatie maintained that he retained his female sex organs because he intended one day to get pregnant.

"I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process, and it doesn't define who I am," Beatie told Oprah Winfrey in April.

"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 said.

Beatie was caught on tape leaving the hospital. He was not carrying the infant.

A woman who appears to be a nurse carried a combination car seat-baby carrier with a white blanket over it. Beatie walked a few yards behind her. The new dad walked easily, although he appeared tired, and despite the warm weather he wore a white hooded sweatshirt along with sunglasses and black shorts. Someone opened the car door for him.

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.

Thomas Beatie: Pregnant Man

I thought this story is quite intriguing. I hope you guys will enjoy reading his/her story.

A transgender Oregon man is five months pregnant, he revealed in a national magazine. Thomas Beattie, of Bend, Oregon, who was a woman prior to his operation, has published a first-person account of his pregnancy in the April 8 issue of gay publication The Advocate. "Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire," he writes.
Beatie was formerly a lesbian who underwent a sex change operation in order to marry the love of his life, Nancy Roberts. At the time they were living in Hawaii, which bans same sex marriages.
They moved to Oregon and, after 10 years together, they longed to start a family. But Nancy had undergone a hysterectomy years earlier due to medical problems.
Beatie's sex change surgery involved chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy, but he chose to keep his female reproductive organs.
Though he was legally a man, when the couple decided to have children he stopped taking male hormones and began getting his period again.
Beatie was then easily able to conceive a child using donor sperm, without fertility treatments. After losing a life-threatening initial pregnancy, with triplets, he and wife Nancy are expecting a healthy baby girl in July, he wrote in The Advocate, which shows a shirtless photo of him with a baby bump at 22 weeks.
He plans to continue living as a man as his pregnancy becomes increasingly obvious to the world. "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," he wrote in The Advocate.
Despite discrimination from doctors, some of whom refused to provide medical care for the pregnant man, as well as questions about how the baby might be affected by having a father for a mother, Beatie seems to think whatever obstacles his family might face are well worth it.
"I will be my daughter's father and Nancy will be her mother," he said. "We will be a family."
There have been questions as to whether Beatie's pregnancy may be a hoax. According to Fox news, Beattie is under a confidentiality contract, which ends on April Fools' Day. Beatie says that he won't be speaking to the media until then.
However, editors at The Advocate said they have spoken to Beatie's doctors, who confirmed the pregnancy, according to news sources.
Beatie writes, "Our situation ultimately will ask everyone to embrace the gamut of human possibility and to define for themselves what is normal."

Daily News Staff