Beatie suspended testosterone hormone treatment in order to conceive but the first conception was an ectopic pregnancy with triplets that was life-threatening, requiring a surgical intervention and the loss of the embryos and his right fallopian tube. : 181 When the two decided to start a family, Beatie chose to carry the child, since Nancy was unable due to a prior hysterectomy.
The couple moved to Bend, Oregon, in 2005. However, he retained his female reproductive organs, which later allowed him to become pregnant. Gender transition and pregnancies Īssigned female at birth, Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery involving a double mastectomy, also known as "top surgery", and officially changed his sex marker from "female" to "male" on his state and federal identity documents in 2002. He graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in health science and later pursued an Executive MBA. He competed in karate and Taekwondo, winning a junior championship in Taekwondo forms in the 1992 Aloha State Games. : 18Īs a teenager, Thomas was a model and Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant finalist. presidents: William Henry Harrison, his fifth great-grandfather, and Benjamin Harrison, his third great uncle. : 16, 18 His father, of Korean and Filipino descent, was born and raised in Hawaii. His mother, Susan Nickels Beatie, was born in Minnesota. Thomas Beatie was assigned female at birth and grew up in Honolulu as the first of two children. The Beatie case is the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth. Beatie chose to be pregnant because his wife Nancy was infertile, doing so with donated sperm. Beatie had gender reassignment surgery in March 2002 and became known as "the pregnant man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007.
Īssigned female at birth, Beatie came out as a trans man in early 1997. Thomas Trace Beatie (born 1974 ) is an American public speaker, author, and advocate of transgender and sexuality issues, with a focus on transgender fertility and reproductive rights.
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