Man Is Six-Months Pregnant
Transgendered Male, 34, Still Has Female Reproductive Organs; Was Artificially Inseminated
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People magazine's Patrick Rogers on The Early Show Friday (CBS/EARLY SHOW)
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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.
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See all 394 CommentsFry it up in a pan.
And never let you forget the romance-
... ''cause I''m a woman!
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.
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.
thanks liberals
good luck kid - you''re gonna need it
Posted by erasmus6
I heard they migrated from Canada.
Nah, you are still there, aren''t ya?
It should have read: "I didn''t know you were from Canada."
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.
" 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. "
"...this is an abomination
thanks liberals"
"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"
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.
Brava!
Posted by erasmus6
Oh erasmus, you wish I was from Canada!
Stop fantasizing aout me!
Stop fantasizing aout me!
I''m not going to have your baby, so quit asking!!! ;)
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.
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