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Title: He’s Pregnant. You’re Speechless.
Post by: Shana A on June 21, 2008, 05:20:53 AM
He's Pregnant. You're Speechless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/fashion/22pregnant.html?_r=1&oref=slogin (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/fashion/22pregnant.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)

By GUY TREBAY
Published: June 22, 2008

WHEN Thomas Beatie gives birth in the next few weeks to a baby girl, the blessed event will mark both a personal milestone and a strange and wondrous crossroads in the evolution of American pop culture.

Mr. Beatie — as anyone who has turned on a television, linked to a blog or picked up a tabloid in the last few months is aware — is a married 34-year-old man, born a woman, who managed to impregnate himself last year using frozen sperm and who went public this spring as the nation's first "pregnant father."