Transgendered male claims to be pregnant

[Suzy]

It was covered on this morning's news.  Actually, they did a great job with it, even though the anchor woman said it was a bit odd to see.  Other than that, correct pronouns and everything!  Woo Hoo!

Kristi

[Shana A]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4526582&page=1


Transgender Man Says He's Pregnant
Oregon Man Says He Has Had Chest Reconstruction, Testosterone Therapy

By NEAL KARLINSKY, STEVE PETYERAK and IMAEYEN IBANGA
March 26, 2008

A transgender man from Oregon says he is five months pregnant, according to gay rights magazine The Advocate.

Stunning photos of what appears to be a pregnant Thomas Beatie accompany the first-person article on the publication's Web site.

[Keira]

Man, that will mess the child's normal in utero progress
unless he stops T therapy!!

[Dennis]

He stopped long before the pregnancy, Keira.

Dennis

[Shana A]

yet more on this story.... from the Sun 

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Pals' shock at pregnant man

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article970394.ece

By EMILY SMITH
US Editor

Published: Today

PALS of "pregnant man" Thomas Beatie last night told of their shock.

Beatie, 34, who yesterday released a pic of his five-months-pregnant belly, has gone into hiding. It is rumoured he and wife Nancy have sold their story to TV chat host Oprah Winfrey.

A British-born neighbour who is looking after their home in Bend, Oregon, while they are away said: "They've struck a big deal with someone.


and, in the the continuing fascination of the sensationalist media 

'Being a pregnant man? It's incredible'

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/wellbeing/story/0,,2268896,00.html

Is it a miracle? A hoax? Or just tragedy in the making? Patrick Barkham on the frenzy surrounding the US transgender man reported to be expecting a baby girl

Friday March 28, 2008
The Guardian

Thomas Beatie lives in a former logging city in Oregon with his wife, Nancy Roberts. He has a beard and he has a bulge in his stomach that isn't a beer belly. Beatie, it is claimed, is five months' pregnant and the story has caused a worldwide frenzy.

Beatie, 34, is a transgender man, or "trans man". Born in Hawaii as Tracy Lagondino, he was a prominent gay-rights activist who found he identified with being a man. He underwent a sex change, which involved regular injections of testosterone, and having his breasts surgically removed (but keeping his female reproductive organs) and legally became a man.

Posted on: March 28, 2008, 07:42:42 AMPregnant man 'lost triplets'

By EMILY SMITH
US Editor

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article975022.ece

THE pregnant man has told of his heartache at losing TRIPLETS before he conceived again.

Thomas Beatie, who is due to give birth to a girl on July 3, survived the ectopic pregnancy – but lost the tots and his right Fallopian tube.

The transsexual, 34, who kept his female reproductive organs after a sex change, said: "It was a life-threatening event that required surgical intervention."