Just three weeks ago, on June 29th, Thomas Beatie became the first legally recognized transgender man to give birth. Thomas and his wife Nancy welcomed a 9lb 5oz baby girl into their family. They named her Susan Juliette, after Thomas’ mother. Thomas told People magazine that,

She’s so precious, I just can’t stop staring at her. Just holding her is the best feeling in the world. Susan is a miracle! And we’re finally the family we’ve been dreaming of.

She is very precious, but how do you think Thomas would react if his beautiful daughter decided to become a man too?

Thomas Beatie, a.k.a. the “Pregnant Man,” has finally given birth to a girl! In case you have been under a rock for the last 6 months, Thomas Beatie is a female to male trans gender. He had his breasts removed and began taking male hormones years ago, but opted to keep his female reproductive organs.

“I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child,” he told Oprah Winfrey.
“It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child.”

According to a source, Thomas had his baby naturally and earlier rumors of a planned Cesarean were false.

Wonder how much the magazines are going to pony up for the first shots…

With only four weeks left until he gives birth, Thomas Beatie does an interview with News of the World.

The world’s first pregnant man talks about his pregnancy, getting ready for the birth of his daughter, and having more children. Here is a little excerpt from the interview.

On being pregnant: Everything has been excellent. I have been so lucky. I didn’t have any discomfort or ailments. In fact when I found out I was pregnant I went online and read how a lot of women suffer back pain but I haven’t had any. It has been remarkably easy.

Do you think that the fact that he doesn’t have any breast contributed to the lack of back pain? Most pregnant women’s breast greatly increase with pregnancy and all the extra weight can cause back pain. I guess that is just one benefit of being a pregnant man.

On preparing for his daughter: I’m 36 weeks now and almost due. I feel fantastic. Every day Nancy and I think about how we just cannot wait to hold our daughter for the first time, to finally touch her and see her face. We have her nursery ready and her diapers are lined up in her bedroom. Everything is ready to go. We have even picked a name which we are both love - although we’re waiting until she is born before we tell anyone.

On having more children: All the people who really know us an love us, our family and family, have been incredibly supportive. So much so we might even have more children. We will just see what the experience is like with our daughter’s arrival first and then give it some thought.

I wonder how much money the first photo of a child born from a man gets? I know it wont even be close to what the Jolie-Pitt twins first pics will get, but I am sure it will be a pretty good chunk of change.

Tell me what you think. Was this transsexual’s pregnancy worthy of all the media attention it received? And do you think a second child will get the same attention as the first?

Click here to read the full interview and see updated photos.

Pregnant man Thomas Beatie has decided to write a memoir.

Beatie’s memoir, titled Love Makes a Family: A Memoir of Hardship, Healing, and Extraordinary Pregnancy, is schedule to be released on September 30, 2008. In his memoir, Beatie talks about female-to-male gender reassignment surgery and his experiences as a pregnant man.

Beatie maintains that being pregnant doesn’t make him any less of a man. In a recent interview on Oprah, Beatie said,

It doesn’t make me want to go and shave my legs or something. I’m a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man.

Beatie is due to deliver his baby on July 3, via ceaseran.

Transsexual Thomas Beatie isn’t going to let a pregnancy keep him from doing his manly chores.

Even though Thomas Beatie is just weeks away from giving birth, he was recently spotted trimming the grass at his Bend, Oregon home.

Thomas made headlines a couple of months ago for being the first recognized pregnant man. Born a woman, Thomas decided to undergo sex reassignment surgery when he was in his twenties, but chose to keep his reproductive organs. He stated in an interview earlier this year that, “Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.”

Thomas Beatie’e baby girl is due to be born on July 3 via cesarean.

Odd side note: notice that he still has a beard even though he hasn’t been taking testosterone for months now…I found that intriguing…maybe you will too!

This pic is for real peeps! Disturbing, I know….The first time I saw this photo I thought, how could this be? It’s not physically possible for a man to carry a baby. And then I read that the 22 week pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, is a transgendered male. Now it all makes since. Although the image is still a little startling, I’ve got to say, good for him.

Thomas Beatie recently gave an interview to the Advocate explaining who he is, his situation, and why he wanted to carry his own baby.

“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.

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.”

Why he decided to carry his child:

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.”

When Thomas got pregnant for the first time he said:

“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.’”

Now he’s five months pregnant and said:

“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.”

A lot of sites are reporting that this is the world’s first pregnant male–in some ways this is true and in other ways not–it gets kinda complicated. As a transgender, Beatie is genetically and physiologically female (& male)…but his self-identity is male. The world has actually seen transgender pregnancy before. In California, Matt Rice, bore a child by artificial insemination; however, California refused to recognize Rice as a man. In Beatie’s case, his state of Oregon, is recognizing him as a male–thus, in the technicality of it all, it’s the first recognized male pregnancy, but not necessarily the first pregnant man in the world.