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"Pregnant Man" Gives Birth to Second Child
Thomas Beatie while pregnant with his first child, Susan.
United Press International
June 10, 2009
The pregnant man has given birth for a second time – this time to a boy. Oregon resident Thomas Beatie, a transgender man born a female, has given birth to his second child, sources told “20/20.”
The ABC-TV series reported exclusively that, according to unidentified sources close to Beatie and his wife Nancy, the transgender man had a healthy baby boy.
Beatie gave birth to a daughter named Susan Juliette last June and his wife breastfed the infant, as the sources say she will do for the couple’s newborn son.
Beatie, 35, underwent sex-reassignment surgery after being born a woman named Tracy, but kept his female reproductive organs intact.
He said his decision to become pregnant came about because Nancy was unable to bear children, “20/20” reported.
After giving birth to his first child, Beatie spoke with “20/20” journalist Barbara Walters about the instant media attention he received after revealing his first pregnancy to the world.
“I was shocked that it looped around the world in 24 hours,” Beatie said at the time. “I mean, it was on Chinese Web sites and, you know, Web sites in Romania and Russia and Brazil.”
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lance_reed
4 months ago
6 comments
I don't understand why this is news. This person underwent sexual reassignment...it isn't as though, as a birth male, he became mysteriously pregnant. THAT would be a story!
As for the judgers below, I hope your old testament virtues aren't coming into my room, as a patient.
laura_m
4 months ago
20 comments
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone....
slee
4 months ago
6 comments
This is so wrong...... your are born a female ...its not a man giving birth...what we look like on the out side don't mean squat!!!!! this person needs help!!! this peson will have to answer to God
heyjude1304
4 months ago
276 comments
What only makes sense to me is that She is a very confused WOMAN. Too much of self glory, wanting to be a man but "oh yes, oh no, oh yes, oh no" thing. Yeah a pity for people who can not really understand their own and I would not expect them to understand others either.
Davida
4 months ago
2 comments
What I don't understand is - why is she considered a MAN legally when she retained her female organs? So a man can undergo gender reassignment and keep his male organs but legally be a WOMAN? That makes no sense to me.
Shari1
4 months ago
4 comments
I am not going to give credence to what God calls an abomination and this is why; Old Testment /New Testment Bible States Jesus is the same today as Yesterday and Forevermore."This is just a mere GRANDSTAND of what once would have been deemed as wrong and run out of town on a rail to now being more and more accepted as right. And what once was widely accepted as right now deemed wrong!!! Very much "Signs of the Times" as spoke about in the Bible(Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) in reguards to the last day's. You can Believe or Choose not to Believe, Our loving Creator set the standard and desired true love, in and from us(His Creation) wanting us to choose to follow the standard of right and wrong set by Him, for our safety, protection and Good. Whether we say we believe or not one day Every knee shall bow and Every Tongue shall Confess that Jesus is Lord.., and claim Jesus as Lord. and in the end, each of us, will either live in Heaven or hell (This is not God's Choice but our's, Hell was never created for humans.) You can say who wants to serve and unloving God who would condemn people into Hell? God being the creator set a standard. God is not a liar. Jesus is the same today as Yesterday and Forevermore, the Word will stand whether you believe it or not! Hell was not designed for people (it was designed for Satan (Devil) and a 1/3 of the fallen angels that are now demons) God intends and desires, for all to love Him and follow His standard, and is sadned by the rejection of His Dear Son Jesus whom He sent for your well being . Irreguardless what you choose to believe one day will all face Judgement, for our choices. God's word actually speaks against this behavior, but we as christians are instucted to Love the People and Hate the SIN!!! So Be Ye Kind to one another. Let all things be done in love." The is always room for repentance and God's mercy of forgiveness. It is all about CHOICES~ We should always treat people with the utmost respect and kindness, God will Judge in the end. Treating a person with love and kindness does not mean acceptance of the sin.
misscocomojo
4 months ago
6 comments
Fine if they have children, but no matter what's been altered, she is still a woman. If my boyfriend were pregnant, then it would be big news because he has no female organs hanging around in him. I guess I just don't understand the fuss over a woman with some facial hair and a few rearrangements having a kid. If they dig her up in a thousand years, the archeologists will find that by her bone structure and her DNA, he is still a she. I have previously had PCOS, so I had increased male hormones, alopecia, and alot of facial hair....I didn't grow any body parts, but does that make me a man? Good for them that they were able to achieve a healthy pregnancy and have their babies, but I just don't get the sensationalism about it. Biologically, he is still a woman!
heyjude1304
4 months ago
276 comments
Curse! Curse! Curse! from above! This is the product of abnormal behaviors being tolerated because people "accept for what they are". A woman wanted to be a man who also wants to bear a child to which what the woman is made for, (she does not really know what she is) She needs spiritual guidance too. Isn't it a challenge or may be a joke to the Creator? Sorry, I was brought to always be upright.
blkmaleRN
5 months ago
4 comments
I'm in the nursing profession but I'm a human first . I would treat all patients with the respect they should have but these people are not my patients today. I'm as openminded as the next person but must we all act as if this is somehow normal? If we are to agree that this person suffers from gender dysphoria then what do we say to anyone willing to bring a child into a situation where a parent suffers from any mental disorder. What will the kids think when they try to compare what's in the house they grow up in and what's in the world outside of their door. It's bad enough growing up without any one parent but imagine having a mother and a father only your father is not really a man and he/she got pregnant.They're lesbians but one of them wanted to be man? It's selfish to have even an inkling of how childhood is going to be for this child. How do you even explain the birds and the bees without modifying it to fit their confusing situation. Many people here want to confuse outrage with someone's ability to deliver care but the two are exclusive. I can treat a drug addict without being disrespectful but nothing stops me from seeing him as a drug addict. If you even believe in the bible how can you view this as natural. I will not lie in the name of openmindedness and say this is ok. Call me judgemental if you like but then that makes you no better than myself. It is human to judge in a case such as this. I'm sorry folks you can pretend all you want as if this is ok but it's not.
kito4149
5 months ago
16 comments
WHATEVER!!!!!!!!!!!! It is our job as nurses to take care of people when they need it, not to be judgemental when they don't need it. So what if he/she had a child, that's his/her business; it's not the first time and it certainly won't be the last. We all know that he/she told the entire world ONLY for the publicity!!!
lizmags
5 months ago
42 comments
It is truly amazing how much ignorance exists and judgements persist still to this day by our fellow nurses and care providers.
vegadarling
5 months ago
16 comments
Wow..... Children don't ask to be born into bigotted christian homes either but no one seems to be complaining about that! Any child would be lucky to have a two parent household filled with love.
Many transgender folks are relatively comfortable with their reproductive parts. Transgender folks are not all alike. Many transwomen are pretty comfortable with their penises and many transmen have given birth to children. Thomas Beatie was not the first and will not be the last. It is easier for transgender men (Like Thomas) to give birth to children than to adopt.
For those of you that seem so incredibly angry at the idea of a "nontraditional" family---- I feel sorry for YOUR children and the bigottry that you teach them on a daily basis. I feel sorry for your patients as well, many of whom have to put up with your judgement in order to recieve medical care. It's sad that you can't put aside your own small minds in order to understand medical conditions.
Throughout the ages transgender people have been considered shamanistic, holy. Western society treats transgender folks as the plague. I urge you not only to educate yourselves but to be compassionate to one another no matter who you are.
Reminder: Check your baggage at the door. You don't bring it to work. Your religion is not to enter the work place. Your job is to provide NONJUDGEMENTAL, COMPASSIONATE care.
vegadarling
5 months ago
16 comments
To those of you here that don't seem to understand transgender folks- please educate yourselves. As nurses it is not in the scope of practice to judge your patients, in fact it's your duty to be understanding and understand medical conditions. Transgender folks have a medical condtion.
Your bias is felt by your patients whether or not you verbally express it. This causes your patients to feel unsafe and invisible. This decreases the likelihood of your patients seeking out appropriate medical care thus neglecting their medical needs. It is your responsibility to be understanding and nonjudgmental while providing appropriate care. I question some of you here as to your ability to do that based on your incredibly offensive and biased responses.
Here's a couple informational links I found:
10 Tips for Working WIth Transgender Individuals: A Guide for Health Care Providers
http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org/pdf/Provider%20fact%20sheet.pdf
Recommendations for Transgender Health Care http://www.transgenderlaw.org/resources/tlchealth.htm
Culturally competent care for GLBT people: Recommendations for health care providers (please read the section on Basic Tips for Culturally Compentent Care)
http://www.metrokc.gov/health/glbt/providers.htm#role
Therapy and Health Maitenance for Transgender Men: A Guide for Health Care Providers
http://www.nickgorton.org/Medical%20Therapy%20and%20HM%20for%20Tran...
Policy and Protocol for Serving Transgender Patients
http://www.transgenderlegal.org/media/uploads/doc_22.pdf
nursekate_85
5 months ago
10 comments
What is our society coming too? There are thousands of children in our nation's foster care system, waiting to be loved and to be made part of a family. Then we have a "woman/man" who has scientifically altered her/his external sexuality but still chooses to conceive and bear a child based on her/his remaining internal sex organs. This is so warped. If this "man" and "his" wife truly wanted children to call their own, why go to such outrageous extremes... as if they didn't realize the public and media attention this would attract! Guess this brings us down to the fact of the matter: What defines an individual as a woman or man? I will leave that for another thread for another time! :)
sassyheather
5 months ago
6 comments
I think no one has the right to judge these people. So what if he was born a woman and now he lives as a man. Thats his right to choose as its his life and not ours. I for one am very happy for them and their children. At least they have two loving parents and thats more then you can say for half our population right now and they both got to experience parenthood. So, I say we should let them be and so should the media. =>