'Pregnant Man' Thomas Beatie Reveals Plans to Get Hysterectomy

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/11/01/pregnant-man-thomas-beatie-reveals-plans-to-get-hysterectomy/
11/1/11
By Terri Pous

The couple that gets hysterectomies together, stays together? Thomas Beatie and his wife are probably hoping that's true.

Beatie, better known as "the pregnant man," announced on The Doctors his decision to have his uterus surgically removed on The Doctors.

Beatie was born biologically female but underwent sex reassignment surgery in 2002. He never had his female reproductive organs removed, which allowed him to carry he and his wife's three children.  Nancy, his wife, had had a hysterectomy before the couple decided to become parents. Now, Beatie hopes that the surgery will allow him to establish his status as a male.