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suzan · Mar 27th, 2008, 06:51 AM

Man is five months pregnant

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A man who used to be a woman is five months pregnant, according to an article he has penned for an American magazine that features a picture of him at 22 weeks, with facial hair and a man’s flat chest above his swollen stomach.

Thomas Beatie, a transgender male, defines his choice of getting pregnant “has been met with discrimination and outright derision by health care professionals”.

The article, entitled Labour of Love, appears in the most recent issue of The Advocate, a Los Angeles-based magazine with a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readership.

eatie is legally male and lives with his wife, Nancy, in Bend, Oregon. They have been together for over 10 years and wanted to have a child together.

Mrs Nancy Beatie, however, was unable to conceive, having suffered severe endometriosis and undergone a hysterectomy, her husband writes.

So the couple decided Mr Beatie should try to carry a baby.

In the article Beatie says that he underwent a sex change but decided to limit the change to chest reduction and testosterone therapy and not making changes to his organs.

This means that Beatie was a male from the outside but the organs are still those of a female, hence his ability to get pregnant.

After a year, and nine different doctors, Thomas Beatie was able to get pregnant using frozen donor sperm but the pregnancy was eptopic and required surgery.

But a second pregnancy was a success and the couple's daughter is due on July 3, the article states.

Mr Beatie describes the process as a challenge, listing the difficulties they encountered en route, including hostility from doctors to a situation that “sparks legal, political and social unknowns”.

The first doctor they approached “told me to shave my facial hair”, Mr Beatie writes.

“Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy’s family doesn’t even know I’m transgender”

“How does it feel to be a pregnant man?” he writes in the article.

“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 will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.”

In the article, Mr Beatie says that to neighbours in “our quiet Oregon community”, he and his wife “are viewed just as we are - a happy couple deeply in love.”

Canada’s National Post said an editorial assistant with The Advocate confirmed it had verified the pregnancy with Mr Beatie’s gynaecologist. She added that the photograph of the pregnant man was Mr Beatie.

The Beaties, however, refused to give the Post further details, citing deals with American media outlets. “It’s a big deal and we want to be able to tell our story,” the Post reported Mrs Beatie as saying.

“We’d love everybody on board as long as they’re understanding and are going to tell our story and not their own.”

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/...t.asp?an=19835

kelly86 · Mar 27th, 2008, 07:04 AM

thats weird isnt it

suzan · Mar 27th, 2008, 07:13 AM

More than weird! I mean, WTF! Even if he was a woman.. he is now a MAN!!!!!!!!!!

fifi83 · Mar 27th, 2008, 08:01 AM

What the........ wired.

loola · Mar 27th, 2008, 08:56 AM

that is ... weird.

in ways i can't comprehend it.
my mind won't let me

Newt · Mar 27th, 2008, 09:05 AM

Cyn · Mar 27th, 2008, 09:09 AM

that is some pretty weird stuff *shakes head*

nikky0907 · Mar 27th, 2008, 09:11 AM

This is totally screwed up...

Linzi · Mar 27th, 2008, 12:17 PM

Is that real?

If he is pregnant... then he would have had to have sex with a man, right? But if he has man bits then how did he?

I'm canny confused like :s

xxx

nikky0907 · Mar 27th, 2008, 12:18 PM

he was a woman and he didn't have sex with a man,it was concieved in vitro..

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