Posted on 04/03/2008 12:46:52 PM PDT by Brilliant
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A transgender man who is six months pregnant said in an interview aired by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that he always wanted to have a child and considers it a miracle.
"It's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human desire," a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. "I have a very stable male identity," he added, saying that pregnancy neither defines him nor makes him feel feminine.
Beatie, 34, who lives in Oregon, was born a woman but decided to become a man 10 years ago. He began taking testosterone treatments and had breast surgery to remove glands and flatten his chest.
"I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day," he told the talk show host. Beatie's wife Nancy said she inseminated him with a syringe using sperm purchased from a bank.
Now, he said, his size 32 jeans are getting a bit tight and his shirts are a bit stretched.
Nancy, to whom he has been married for five years and who has two grown daughters by a previous marriage, also appeared on the show, saying the couple's roles will not change once the baby is born.
"He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother," she said. Their marriage is legal and he is recognized under state law as a man.
The couple was shown on video provided by People Magazine, which collaborated with Winfrey on the show, showing the room that will be the baby's nursery. Beatie said the little girl was going to be "daddy's little princess."
The couple was also filmed in their hometown of Bend, Oregon, where he underwent an ultrasound showing the baby in his womb.
"I can't believe it. I can't believe she's inside me," Beatie said while watching the ultrasound image. "We see her as our little miracle."
His obstetrician, Dr. Kimberly James, who practices in the Oregon town, told Winfrey, "This is a normal pregnancy."
She said Beatie stopped taking testosterone two years ago and his levels of the hormone are normal.
"This baby is totally healthy," she said. "This is what I consider a normal pregnancy."
The couple said they had been turned down by a number of other doctors before James agreed to take him as a patient.
The couple said an earlier attempt at pregnancy failed when he developed a tubal pregnancy, resulting in surgery that removed his Fallopian tubes.
The couple said they decided to go public with the pregnancy because they wanted to control the way the news got out. "We're just going to have the baby now," Nancy said. "If we have to, we'll go hide."
The couple runs a small business in Bend and has some savings, she said. In addition, Beatie is working on a book about his childhood, his mother's suicide and his life growing in Hawaii where, as a girl, he was a teen beauty pageant contestant and earned a martial arts black belt.
Winfrey called the development "a new definition of what diversity means for everybody."
Looks like the same might now be said of women.
“”I have a very stable male identity,””
No you don’t. lol Whackjob.
Title is missleading.
This is not a pregnant man. It is a pregnant woman.
Man, the MSM can be moronic. But the lie in the title gets readers I suppose.
If “he” is pregnant, “he” is not a “he”. MEN don’t get pregnant.
>>”I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day,” he told the talk show host.<<
Which makes “him” a woman.
Not a man. She's a woman who has had herself mutilated through surgery and hormones, but she still had her uterus and ovaries. It's amazing that the plumbing still worked, but she's still not a man.
When asked who the father was, he was heard to reply "wadda ya think I have eyes in the back of my head?"
And they live in Bend, Oregon? Priceless.
BS. Just because she took testosterone doesn’t make her a man. Disgusting. Lord have Mercy on this country.
Saw my mom watching that crap. Told her X chromosomes can`t lie.
If on the other hand you are so deluded as to claim to be a pregnant man when it's obvious you're a woman and claim that to be the miracle then you ought to be committed to a mental health facility.
so is his wife a lesbian? i am confused and more than a little queasy.
Yep, she’s a woman. She had some cosmetic surgery and took some hormones, but she’s still a woman. Lots of women who’ve had cosmetic surgery have gotten pregnant ... nothing special.
This is another example of behavior that might be called "abominations" as such things are described in the Bible. The end times must be near.
We must be near the Second Coming is all I can figure.
Biologically, this humanoid has two X chromosomes.
This makes said humanoid a female, regardless of how much surgical and chemical mutilation it has inflicted upon itself.
bizarre.............
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On second though...
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Oh well, I guess...
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All right. Seriously...
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I guess I’m getting soft in my old age.
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