Take me higher lord! An Oregon transgendered man who used to be a woman says he is five-months pregnant! Thomas Beatie, who’s expecting a girl, reveals to The Advocate his story about being becoming pregnant.
Beatie is legally registered as a male and lives with his wife, Nancy. In order to become pregnant he stopped taking his testosterone injections, and the conception was achieved through home insemination.
“Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,” he writes in the article for the gay and lesbian magazine. “How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible,” he adds. “Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.” Beatie is expected to give birth in July. In the short article he also speaks about the ostracism he has suffered as a result of his condition. “Health care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy’s family doesn’t even know I’m transgender.”