The Pregnant Man to publish book about his experience · 2008-07-07 19:14
Thomas Beatie, also known as The Pregnant Man, has given birth to a girl.
Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs, and his wife Nancy, 46, welcomed a daughter at an Oregon hospital on June 29. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well, he tells People.
Raised in Hawaii, he spent the first two decades of his life as Tracy Lagondino, a Girl Scout, former model and finalist in a Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant. Beatie said that he began to dress and live as a man in his 20s, in time officially changing his gender on his passport and driver's license.
In 2003, he legally married Nancy, a divorced mother of two who had had a hysterectomy as a result of endometriosis.
The couple became pregnant using donor sperm and Thomas's eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend, Ore., where they operate a T-shirting printing business.
Their baby girl is Thomas's first child. "The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't," he said.
Despite published reports, Beatie says the baby was not delivered via C-section. He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall.
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