Thomas Beatie,

a married man who used to be a woman, is pregnant with a baby girl James Bone in New York 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. Related Links Cheney’s gay daughter set to give birth Full parental rights for gay couples 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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Yes, this “man” is pregnant. Now when I 1st read the title I was shocked like nobody’s business. I mean, I was like “Huh?!! Where the baby would come out from???!!!”

If it’s where I 1st thought it would be, then only one word….. OUCH!!!

But upon further reading, and erm, snooping around the net, I found out “He” was actually a She. And that “He” had an operation just to look like a man but innards or productivity wise, “He” is still very much a SHE. It’s just that “He” takes testosterone prescriptions to develope the “Manly” characteristics & suppress the womanly ones.

But no matter how many pills & ops they go thru, these transgenders folks would still have features that looks very much their original gender. For instance, this “guy” has a face that looks quite effiminate & “his” hands doesn’t look as  rough & tough as a normal guy’s hand.

All religious & moral backlash aside, I couldn’t help but have one big question in mind when I came across this article:

How would the child cope or handle the truth of her production & birth?

I mean you gotta admit this is no normal family.

A normal family would have the typical mother giving bith to the baby.

Not the daddy.

A normal family would have a real daddy & mummy.

Not a daddy who was previously would have been called a mummy had “he” not gone for any operation to change.

Imagine what the kid might have to go thru in the school yard. As it is, kids nowadays are brutal with their taunts & remarks.

Imagine the mental torture she might have to go thru.

I understand what these “guy” meant by everyone have a natural desire to reproduce. But is it fair to do so if that means putting the future & well being not to mention sanity of your offspring at risk?

I don’t think so.

Sometimes you have to make yourself think far & weigh the pros & cons & implications of the action that you do & decisions that you are about to take.

For me personally, I think this “guy” is just plain selfish. “He” claims “he” is doing it for the sake of “his” wife, well then mister, (If I may call him that) what about the baby? Shouldn’t you do right by her too?!

It’s not like there are no other options for them to choose from.

There is always the evr popular option of adoption that is fast becoming popular among the celebs in Hollywood.

There are so many children out there who needs the love & support of people they can call parents to replace the loss of their own parents.

Why don’t they do that?

If it is a question of wanting a baby that is of their own, then pfft, that is out of the question coz’ both of them are naturally, original, female by gender. Meaning there is no sperm to ovulate the egg that they have in abundance unless they get a donor.

And once they do, what is wrong in getting another woman to carry the baby to full term for them?

At least it saves the baby from being taunted & bashed in the school playground in the future just coz’ she has parents who are “Weird”.

I for one think people who are selfish like this “guy” shouldn’t be parents in the 1st place coz’ they don’t think of anything that is past their own noses.