Clowgon
27-03-2008, 07:08 PM
Sex change bloke set to be a mum:
A BLOKE with a beard sent shockwaves round the world yesterday when he announced: “I’m PREGNANT.”
Thomas Beatie, 34, released this astonishing photo showing his swollen belly — and said it felt “incredible” to be a pregnant man.
He revealed he is due to give birth on July 3.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00459/SNN2708D_180_459160a.jpgBefore ... Thomas as Tracy
And he told how he was fertilised using donor sperm because his WIFE Nancy cannot have children.
American Thomas — a transsexual who was actually born female — admitted that his amazing pregnancy would create “legal, political and social unknowns”.
But in a real-life echo of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 film Junior, Thomas vowed to carry on living as a man even while his baby bump is growing.
He added: “I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.”
Thomas is legally a man after undergoing a sex change, even though he kept his female reproductive organs.
He and his wife were desperate to start a family after ten years together, but Nancy, 45, had had a hysterectomy after health problems 20 years ago.
Confident
So Thomas, who had chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy for his sex change, stopped the hormone injections and his periods returned.
A year later he fell pregnant with twins using donor sperm, but lost the babies after developing life-threatening complications.
He then became pregnant again five months ago, and his doctors now expect him to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
Thomas bravely decided to write about his experience in respected US gay magazine The Advocate.
He wrote: “How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible.
“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.
I'd seen this yesterday on Channel 5. Im just so shocked. I never knew this sort of thing could ever happen. I'm sure many Transexuals will follow in his footsteps.
Title edited by jesus (Forum Super Moderator) so it complies with rule B14.
A BLOKE with a beard sent shockwaves round the world yesterday when he announced: “I’m PREGNANT.”
Thomas Beatie, 34, released this astonishing photo showing his swollen belly — and said it felt “incredible” to be a pregnant man.
He revealed he is due to give birth on July 3.
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00459/SNN2708D_180_459160a.jpgBefore ... Thomas as Tracy
And he told how he was fertilised using donor sperm because his WIFE Nancy cannot have children.
American Thomas — a transsexual who was actually born female — admitted that his amazing pregnancy would create “legal, political and social unknowns”.
But in a real-life echo of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 film Junior, Thomas vowed to carry on living as a man even while his baby bump is growing.
He added: “I will be my daughter’s father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family.”
Thomas is legally a man after undergoing a sex change, even though he kept his female reproductive organs.
He and his wife were desperate to start a family after ten years together, but Nancy, 45, had had a hysterectomy after health problems 20 years ago.
Confident
So Thomas, who had chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy for his sex change, stopped the hormone injections and his periods returned.
A year later he fell pregnant with twins using donor sperm, but lost the babies after developing life-threatening complications.
He then became pregnant again five months ago, and his doctors now expect him to give birth to a healthy baby girl.
Thomas bravely decided to write about his experience in respected US gay magazine The Advocate.
He wrote: “How does it feel to be a pregnant man? Incredible.
“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.
I'd seen this yesterday on Channel 5. Im just so shocked. I never knew this sort of thing could ever happen. I'm sure many Transexuals will follow in his footsteps.
Title edited by jesus (Forum Super Moderator) so it complies with rule B14.