The Pregnant Man Gives Birth

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People has confirmed that 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. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well.

Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in People and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he 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 told People he began to dress and live as a man in his 20s, in time officially changing his gender on his passport and driver's license.

Their baby girl is Thomas's first child. "The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't,". Despite published reports, Beatie says the baby was not delivered via C-section. He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall.