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Title: Doctors meet Israel's first pregnant man - Israeli man to give birth
Post by: Shana A on September 13, 2011, 08:41:06 AM
Doctors meet Israel's first pregnant man

By Jennifer Lipman, September 13, 2011

http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/54594/doctors-meet-israels-first-pregnant-man (http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/54594/doctors-meet-israels-first-pregnant-man)

Israeli doctors were astounded this week when a young male patient revealed that he was pregnant.

According to Ynet, the man had a sex change operation in the US and looks in every way like a man. However before his operation he opted not to have his reproductive organs removed.

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Israeli man to give birth

Young man who underwent sex change operation shocks medical staff at hospital

Sarit Rosenblum
Published:    09.12.11, 23:53

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4121286,00.html (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4121286,00.html)

A 24-year-old man shocked medical staff in central Israel Sunday after walking into an emergency room and informing doctors that he underwent a sex change operation and is now pregnant, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday.

The man, who was born as a woman, is the first Israeli transgender to ever be pregnant. He is married to a man and is in the seventh month of pregnancy.