Thomas Trace Beatie, a trans man, known as "The Pregnant Man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007. Beatie was born as a female named Tracy Lehuanani LaGondino in 1974 in Hawaii. He had gender reassignment surgery in 2002 when he was 28 to legally become a man. Beatie's wife Nancy Beatie was infertile and can't become pregnent so betie chose to become pregnant. Beatie has given birth to three children. He was also recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's "First Married Man to Give Birth” in 2010.
Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs, and his wife Nancy, 46, welcomed a daughter at an Oregon hospital on June 29. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well, he tells PEOPLE.
Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in PEOPLE and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was expecting a child – while legally living as a man.
Raised in Hawaii, 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. Beatie told PEOPLE that he began to dress and live as a man in his 20s, in time officially changing his gender on his passport and driver's license.
In 2003, he legally married Nancy, a divorced mother of two who had had a hysterectomy as a result of endometriosis.
The couple became pregnant using donor sperm and Thomas's eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend, Ore., where they operate a T-shirting printing business.
Their baby girl is Thomas's first child. "The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't," he told PEOPLE.
Despite published reports, Beatie says the baby was not delivered via C-section. He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall.
