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Pregnant 'man' gives birth to daughter in natural delivery
Last updated at 01:27am on 04.07.08
Transgender male Thomas Beatie has given birth to a girl
A woman who had a sex change operation and lived as a man has given birth to a girl, it was claimed yesterday.
American Thomas Beatie is believed to have had the baby delivered naturally at a hospital in Oregon.
Although born a woman, Beatie had his breasts surgically removed, lived outwardly as a man and legally changed his gender to male.
Once known as Tracy Lagondino, the 34-year-old claimed he retained his female sex organs because he intended to give birth one day.
'It's a human need - I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child,' he told viewers of the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Conception was achieved with sperm from a donor inseminated at home by his 45-year-old wife Nancy, using a do-it-yourself kit.
Beatie said he and his wife, legally married after the gender change, had proceeded with the pregnancy despite opposition from family, friends and the medical profession.
'Love makes a family and that's all that matters,' he said.
The couple are understood to have sold their story.
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To everyone here who has posted saying they 'pity' the 'poor' child: save your pity for the poor kids forced to live with conformist dullards for parents who never question convention, are raised to follow orders, grow up utterly bored and end up living unremarkable, pointless lives
- Charlie, Soho
Good luck to them both - obviously they will make good parents unlike some single mothers bring up their children in drug and crime infested estates in the UK.
- Raminder Bhalla, Northolt
Isn't Thomas Beatie just a woman who has removed her breasts and let her facial hair grow wild?
- Smb, London, UK
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