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| 'Pregnant' man delivers baby girl in US: Report | | | SILICON VALLEY (US) | JUL 4
An American man, who was born a woman before undergoing a gender change surgery, has given birth to a healthy baby girl at an Oregon hospital, a media report said today.
34-year-old Thomas Beatie, who legally switched to a male identity while preserving his female reproductive organs, delivered the baby on June 29, 'People' magazine reported.
"The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't," Beatie told the magazine, adding that both he and his daughter were doing well.
Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, hit headlines around the globe last April when he announced that he a was expecting a child.
The report said 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.
Married to 46-year-old Nancy, Beatie became pregnant using donor sperm and his own preserved eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend in Oregon.
The magazine said the girl is Beatie's first child, and he had given birth naturally, not by caesarean section. |
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