Man Is Six-Months Pregnant

Transgendered Male, 34, Still Has Female Reproductive Organs; Was Artificially Inseminated

(CBS)  Thomas Beatie and his wife, Nancy, are expecting their first child in early July.

But this is no ordinary pregnancy.

The child is being carried by -- the 34-year-old Bend, Ore. MAN.

People magazine did a photo shoot with the couple, and People Senior Editor Patrick Rogers filled in Early Showviewers Thursday.

Rogers admits, "This is a story that takes a little getting used to."

Beatie looks like a man.

But, as Rogers explained, Beatie "started his life as a woman, and transitioned (a decade ago), became legally a man. He still has his female reproductive organs, and now, he's pregnant, six-months pregnant."

Beatie is a transgenedered male. He had his breasts reconstructed.

Rogers says Beatie was born a woman but "says that he has felt that he was a man since birth, since childhood. His wife, however, had a hysterectomy. So, she's unable to carry a child for the couple.

"They decided they want to have a baby. They can use artificial insemination for Thomas to get pregnant. So he just decided, 'Why don't I do it?' They could have hired a surrogate. He could have provided the egg that could have been fertilized and gone to a surrogate. But he just said ... 'Why would I hire a surrogate when I could do it myself? Who's going to take better care of our child than myself?' "

The couple taped an interview with Oprah Winfrey for a show airing Thursday and, in excerpts on the show's Web site, Beatie says, "I'm a person and I have the right to have my own
biological child."

Beatie, Rogers pointed out, "has been taking hormones for years to become a man. He has a beard and mustache and masculine attributes. He had to stop taking testosterone to get pregnant. He stopped taking it before he went through artificial insemination. And now, during the pregnancy, there can be no male hormones. But his doctor says that his levels of hormones are actually normal for a pregnant woman -- that this is a pregnancy without any complications at all."

Beatie plans to give birth vaginally, Rogers says, adding that, "His plan is not to have an epidural, to have a natural childbirth on or about July 3."

Rogers spoke to Beatie by phone for hours, and Beatie told him the pregnancy had been a secret, but, "The reason we're hearing about the story now is that Thomas is showing, and people are starting to notice it.

"We talked to neighbors who said, 'This is a great couple. Whatever is right for them, is right for them.'

"But ... Thomas and Nancy are worried that other people in their town, and in the whole country, are going to react very strongly, some negatively."

According to some doctors, Thomas probably isn't the first transgendered man to get pregnant, since a transgendered man has the same sex organs as a woman.

[sentry88]

As in the words of my dear old pappy......SOMETHING JUST AINT RIGHT ABOUT THESE CITY FOLKS.

[tomanyt]

She is not a MAN!!!! Once an XX Chromosome, always an XX Chromosome.

[wlmrtpatriot]

The headline is so misleading. This character is now and has always been a woman. The media is weird to publish this non-news. Another factor is the lesbian isn''t even preganant, she only did this for attention. I felt taken after reading this "medical miracle" article. Men can''t have children, this just does not happen. This bs headline belongs in one of those black and white tabloids.

[jxsensei]

The Media is blowing this out of proportion. IT''S A WOMAN HAVING A BABY! All SHE did for people to call her a man was build a pole where there''s a hole and took A LOT of hormone medicine every day.

[uuummm]

The parents did not make the right choice when the child was growing up or at birth. They should have done karyotyping and monitored hormone levels to see which *** to choose before they said "its a boy!"

[excoachken]

I am concerned that all the hormones this person had to take might have a profoundly negative effect on the fetus. It is very risky and hard to understand why a physician would approve such an experiment. This couple might sadly find out too late, that adoption would have been a better option.

[rjs1955]

She is a woman. Michael Jackson is a black man. No amount of surgery, hormone treatment, plastic-surgery-non-functioning-genitalia, cosmetics, skin lightening or self-convincing... or even societal acceptance can change these and other similar facts. The term trans-gender male or trans-gender female are synthetic terms to describe psychiatric aspects of this phenomenon, not the biological definition of male and female.

[steph21874]

I''m a long time viewer of the show and I''m so disappointed that you all ran this story. It was have been titled Lesibian Woman Caring Child. I had to explain to my 9 year old son that you all lyed to the viewers because MAN can not get pregnant. "IT" was borne a woman still has all the female parts and is going to vaginally delieve the baby. I''m still in awe that you all done this. I''m having to rethink watching your news program again because of the misleading idea that a man can be pregnant. How does a person legally change their gender? It''s things like this that''s bring this world to hell in a hand basket.

[twohares]

I can bring home the bacon...
Fry it up in a pan.
And never let you forget the romance-
... ''cause I''m a woman!

[rushlimpdrug]

Posted by steph21874 at 10:41 AM

YOU are totally correct.
How stupid of CBS.
The first time I saw this on a false news network
I was shocked and amazed.
Unfortunately, I was in a public place and
the sound was turned down.
I''m sure they told the story.
But for CBS to headline, "Man Is Six-Months Pregnant"
is absolutely a shame.
Pleeze CBS if you can''t respect the public
at least respect yourself.

This is about as bogus as a story can be.

[rjs1955]

No matter how free our media is, to so irresponsibly represent this person as a male is so out of touch with reality to be on a level of suggesting that one could claim a new ***, race, ethnic background, etc. just by saying it is so and making cosmetic changes... which in the largest sense hormone therapy is after all. I was born of Polish/German ancestry, but have always felt very at home in the Italian culture, cuisine, climate, etc.... I think I''ll just become Italian... yes... let''s see, I have brown eyes already, my skin is a little light for a typical Italian, but maybe if I claim that I''m from the Italian Tyrol... hmmm... now for a trip to the store for some black hair-dye... See you tomorrow as Giacomo from Genua....

[rational_1]

This is going to be one seriously psychologically messed up kid. "Well my birth mother is actually now my dad and the woman who you''d think was my mom couldn''t get pregnant and... stop looking at me and asking all these questions.".

Not one word in this article on the possible consequences to the child of growing up under these conditions. Hope it works out for them, but I suspect they will have serious problems.

[rjs1955]

Here is what gets me. If I type the word $e/x on this site, it is converted to ***. But CBS can put up this ridiculous story, patently false and misleading, and it goes on-the-air!!!! If I type the $ex word in relation to gender rather than the act of c0pul@tion, it still is treated as a bad word. Now let''s see if their system can catch that "c" word I typed that I needed to do to have kids....

[dogsoul]

...this is an abomination

thanks liberals

good luck kid - you''re gonna need it

[rjs1955]

Remember the old bearded lady thing at the circus? This is the same thing, only the beard comes from hormone injections instead of a screw-up in the person''s natural hormone production... and if the bearded lady happened to be morphoditical... then she was closer to being a real male than this person anyway!

[newlysmom]

It''s nice to see that CBS has sunken to the level of a tabloid. This story belongs to them and NOT in respectable news reporting. How disappointing your reporting is getting.

[kplovesyou09]

Whoa Baby!!!!!!! Is this for real?!?!?!?!?!?!

[erasmus6]

Ahhh, what the hell. The U.S. is full of whackos, what''s one more??:)

[lil_rams]

I saw this on television this morning, and was confused. And then reading this story, I''m sadded to see what our country has come to. The idea of a man giving birth is impossible. Just because a female attempts to change how she was created, just not make her a man. And the fact that she still has her reproductive organs further demonstrate that she is infact a female. So to say and announce that a "man" is pregnant is extremely false information. It is suspected to cause a lot of confusion and arguments, which is will because the information is presented inaccurately. A man is not pregnant. A woman married to another woman is pregnant. So to accurately put it, a gay/lesbian couple is having a baby.

[hawksprings]

"Ahhh, what the hell. The U.S. is full of whackos, what''''s one more??:)"
Posted by erasmus6

I heard they migrated from Canada.

[erasmus6]

"I heard they migrated from Canada." Posted by hawksprings

Nah, you are still there, aren''t ya?

[erasmus6]

oops, didn''t read that properly.

It should have read: "I didn''t know you were from Canada."

[severine80]

in what kind of world are we living in?i thought i heard it all,but that!! wow..!!what about that child''s future ,does anyone think about him?i just hope the best for him or her.

[smiley676]

Are your posts serious. This is not really a man. This isn''t a scientific breakthrough. There is nothing amazing about this at all, except for the need that some people have to get 15 minutes of fame.

[texanforlogi]

How can you be considered a man when there is no Mr. Winkie in your pants? Flat chests or pants do not make the man, it''s the Mr. Winkie and Friends that do that. This is a crock.

[rushlimpdrug]

Ed M. must be turning in his grave.
with all the events going on in this world
and CBS wastes space on this trash story.

[clp1274]

it was a lady not a man so rely it was a lady how got pregant what is the world coming to ladys changeing there bodys to look like men it is crazy.

[extremophil]

Maybe he rolled over in bed and got himself pregnant.

[darrren12000]

REPEAT THAT OVER AND OVER AND MAYBE IT WILL BECOME TRUE.....LOL


" A man is not pregnant. A woman married to another woman is pregnant. So to accurately put it, a gay/lesbian couple is having a baby. "

[darrren12000]

BLAME LIBERALS? LOL. I HADNT EVEN THOUGHT OF THIS ONE. PRETTY COOL, BUT NOT SURE IT''S PART OF ANY LIBERAL AGENDA. LOL. KEEP ON PRAYING...JUST DONT "PREY."

"...this is an abomination

thanks liberals"

[darrren12000]

ALL THESE TRAINED PSYCHOLOGISTS OUT HERE...WHATEVER SHALL WE DO. KIDS ARE BORN INTO MANY DIFFICULT SITUATIONS....ACUTE POVERTY, PARENTS WITH TERMINAL ILLNESSES, THEY ARE BORN WITH DISABILITIES...THEY ARE BORN IN A RACIST SOCIETY ....OR HOMOPHOBIC OR SEXIST SOCIETY....JUST FILL IN THE BLANK. KIDS TEND TO ADJUST WITH LOVE IN THEIR LIVES. NO ONE IN THE ARTICLE MENTIONED THAT THE PARENTS WOULDNT LOVE THE CHILD. DONT PROJECT YOUR BIASES ON THE CHILD.

"Not one word in this article on the possible consequences to the child of growing up under these conditions. Hope it works out for them, but I suspect they will have serious problems"

[bikermomx2]

I would think that since the person carrying the child has been taking hormones for so long that the baby could be adversely affected? Why not adopt? There are plenty of couples that adopt...and there are plenty of kids that need homes. I really wonder what their motive is? You can hide the pregancy...lots of people do. Was their choice really for a child or for attention?

[dgal878]

Gross! They should have taken her organs when she decided she wanted to be a man!

[sdmom1]

I am very dissappointed in your news program. How can you say a man is six months pregnant when in all reality it was a woman. That is not a miracle that is man messing with Gods creation. I think you better restate your news title. Every morning I would wake up and turn on the news. Well, I just might stop watching CBS all together. This kind of thing should be in the National Enquirer. It is said in the Bible, For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother''s womb. Psalm 139:13. It does not say, science created you in the womb. Please rethink about a retraction on this, you are getting a lot of negative feedback and noone is happy about your news. It is sad indeed when someone a man is said to be six months pregnant when it just a woman. Give the gay/lesbian''s fame for five minutes!

[pam1sadge]

The Doors had a GREAT song . . . "PEOPLE ARE STRANGE."

[johnstossel]

Yuck!!!

[pam1sadge]

They are claiming a man is pregnant because he has been legally considered a man for a decade! What sort of laws do we have in this country? This is a woman who had a *** change operation, it is not a MAN, legally or otherwise.

[usmcvn2]

****OTS!

[hypnotoad72]

They are claiming a man is pregnant because he has been legally considered a man for a decade! What sort of laws do we have in this country? This is a woman who had a *** change operation, it is not a MAN, legally or otherwise.

Posted by pam1sadge
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Agreed, 100%.
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I would think that since the person carrying the child has been taking hormones for so long that the baby could be adversely affected? Why not adopt? There are plenty of couples that adopt...and there are plenty of kids that need homes. I really wonder what their motive is? You can hide the pregancy...lots of people do. Was their choice really for a child or for attention?

Posted by Bikermomx2
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See, it''s not about the child''s well being. It''s about "awareness". Selfishness; narcissism.

[hockeymanvt]

WAY cool. I hope she has a safe and successful pregnancy.
Brava!

[puzzler125]

I say good for them, their child is really wanted, and shut up with the negative comments. I''d far rather hear aobut a committed couple having a baby together than read about Jamie Lynn and her baby.

[angtri3]

It really surprises me(although i am realizing just how closed minded our society is) that people have such negative comments over this. What is wrong with simply being happy for a couple that are in love and living their lives? Why must we scrutinze them over their decision to raise a child in a loving enviroment. How many children are raised in broken homes? This home the child will be loved and cared for.

[hawksprings]

"It should have read: "I didn''t know you were from Canada."
Posted by erasmus6

Oh erasmus, you wish I was from Canada!
Stop fantasizing aout me!

[hawksprings]

Oh erasmus, you wish I was from Canada!
Stop fantasizing aout me!

I''m not going to have your baby, so quit asking!!! ;)

[fjinnw]

She wants to be a man and she wants to have baby. ?

[yongamerica]

Despite all the cosmetic surgery and hormone therapy, this person is still biologically a WOMAN. The determinant factor is the genitalia, and the fully functioning reproductive system.

A side from the questioning the attraction between these two people one should focus on:
Were these llesbians married in a state that recognizes same sssexx marriage?

This is a circus act. It is obvious this "man" has never been a "man", no matter how hard this person tried to act like one.

This is simply a LLESBIAN RELATIONSHIP WITH A CIRCUS TWIST.

[cheddarboy82]

how do you call someone born a girl, a man ? This whole article is misleading. What a weird "it"

[angtri3]

some people commenting on this page should research what gender really is.

[jetlizhan]

this poor child of theirs - how confusing and unfair for him/her. if this couple is happy, good for them - i just feel sorry for the unborn child. transgendered, i take it, is not the same as when one undergoes a full se.x change (private parts, that is) - so HE doesn''t have a willy???

[jetlizhan]

the fully story and the couple are gonna be on ''oprah'' today.