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'Pregnant man' Thomas Beatie in legal limbo
Judge in divorce case questions gender, legitimacy of marriage

By Michael Kiefer The Republic | azcentral.com Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:31 PM

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Thomas Beatie became a man in 2002, based on notes from his doctors, and shortly thereafter, he became a husband and a parent.

But now a Maricopa County Superior Court judge is questioning his gender and the legitimacy of his marriage, because after being legally declared male, Beatie performed that most female of miracles: he gave birth to three children.

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But the family court judge assigned to his case, Douglas Gerlach, is not certain he has jurisdiction. Arizona marriages, after all, are by law between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage is forbidden, and the state of Arizona will not recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

Beatie was legally allowed to change his birth certificate and driver's license to say he is a man. He was legally allowed to get married as a man. Gerlach gets all that, but as he wrote into the court record, "In other words, it appears that, by any reasonable standard, (Beatie) was the biological mother of those children at the times they were born. As such, parties' marriage was between a female and a person capable of giving birth, who later did so."

so wait - being transgender we are not allowed to have kids?

I don't get it ... while I can't understand why he would want to get pregnanat or maybe don't really have all the details.
But that doesn't mean we do not have a right to have kids nor does that mean we should stop being who we are because we want kids in our lives.

Just saw this on msn.. N the amount of nasty comments about this made just made me feel very...ill. You never realise just how unnacepting people are until you see then spreading oppinions on msn. I really feel bad for the human race right now. :(

I hope things work out for him.

I wish him happiness