Transgender man prepares to give birth
PrintOregon couple redefine the division of labour
Posted in Biology, 27th March 2008 12:23 GMT
Free whitepaper – Avoiding costs from oversizing data center and network room infrastructure
A Oregon man who was born a woman claims to be preparing to give birth in July.
Thomas Beatie, of Bend, Oregon, underwent sex change surgery to become a man 10 years ago, but chose to retain his female reproductive organs, just in case.
His wife of ten years, Nancy also from Bend, was unable to have children due to a hysterectomy - hence the Junior-esque pregnancy.
Thomas stopped taking testosterone injections and started having periods again, allowing him to become pregnant by artificial insemination.
Beatie is legally a man and the couple are legally married.
The news has come as a shock to neighbours, and part of Nancy's family, who were unaware Beatie was transgender.
"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 recognise Nancy as my wife," he said, in a first-person account of the couple's story on Advocate.com
However, the prejudice has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of the father to be, expected to give birth to a baby girl in July.
"How does it feel to be a pregnant man? 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. I will be my daughter's father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family." ®
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Managing desktop software for fun and profit
Analyst Keynote: The Register Agile Data Center Summit
Enabling the Agile Data Center
Google Spanner — instamatic redundancy for 10 million servers?
Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala
Fedora 12 polishes Linux for netbooks
Sign up, sign up for The Register IT security newsletter