Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Pregnant Man
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.
Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, was expecting a child – while legally living as a man.
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 says the baby was not delivered via C-section. He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall.
Photo by: Mary Ellen Mark
*faint* He really look like a guy don't he ? I cannot imagine him as a model.
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