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The famously pregnant man, transgender male Thomas Beatie, proudly showed off his expanding belly and revealed that he and his wife are considering having more children, according to a British tabloid.
Transgender male Thomas Beatie has delivered a healthy baby girl. Beatie became pregnant through artificial insemination.
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More Photos"I feel fantastic," Beatie told the News of the World. "I cannot wait to see my baby's face. We have her nursery ready and her diapers are lined up in her bedroom. Everything is ready to go."
Beatie, 34, of Bend, Ore., is due to give birth in four weeks.
The couple, whose unconventional version of parenthood has stirred international debate, posed for new candid photos of a very pregnant Beatie eagerly showing off a burgeoning belly.
The photos include shots of Beatie shaving and an intimate portrait of wife his wife, Nancy Beatie, cradling his large stomach.
Beatie said he shaves while resting his arm on his baby bump and may even consider having more children.
"We will just see what the experience is like with our daughter's arrival first and then give it some thought," he told the tabloid.
Beatie, born a woman who was named Tracy Lagondino, retained his female reproductive organs, which allowed him to conceive. Since Nancy, who already has adult children from a previous relationship, could not have children, Beatie offered to carry a child for her.
The baby was conceived through artificial insemination. Nancy actually performed the procedure at home with a syringe.
I feel it's not a male or female desire to want to have a child. It's a human desire. And I'm a person, and I have the right to have my own biological child," said Beatie, who has already picked a name for his daughter but won't reveal it until she's born.
The Beaties admit their situation is out of the ordinary but insist their daughter will be raised in a household with traditional mother and father roles. Nancy Beatie said she'll act as the child's mother, while Thomas Beatie assumes the father role.
"What's actually astonishing about this pair is that they behave like a man and a woman in a very traditional marriage and will probably bring those roles to the family, and the little girl will grow up like all little girls grow up, with a daddy and a mommy," said anthropologist and author Helen Fisher.
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OK, I'm about as ungiving of a shit about things as they come, but she's not a man. As one person in a comment column put it, women have their breasts removed due to cancer but that doesn't make them men. Men have conditions that leave them without testosterone and that doesn't make them women.
I have no doubt that any kids they have are brought to them with deep love, but this is a lesbian couple, at least for now. They've been on ABC News and Oprah and are writing a book about their experience.
What experience? You're a woman having babies who wants to be a man-someday.
Is just "appearance" enough to make someone something other than what they are?
I won't go into the kids' mental state down the road. Raise them with love and it doesn't matter what you are or what you call yourself, but this is a media sham to me.