VIDEO: World’s First Pregnant Man Gives Birth to Second Child

If you don’t know who Thomas Beatie is, you must’ve been living under a rock!

He is the first transgender man to ever get pregnant and he made quite a few headlines.

According to Wikipedia, Beatie, a trans man, had gender reassignment surgery in 2002 and became known as ‘The Pregnant Man’ after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007. Beatie chose to become pregnant because his wife Nancy was infertile, doing so with cryogenic donated sperm.

Beatie’s first pregnancy resulted in an ectopic pregnancy with triplets, requiring emergency surgery and resulting in the loss of all three fetuses. Beatie has since given birth to three children.

The couple filed for divorce in 2012. The Beatie case is the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a traditional marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth.

Beatie was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, the first of two children. His mother was from San Francisco, and of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh descent. His father, of Korean and Filipino descent, was born and raised in Hawaii.

As a teenager, Beatie was a female model and Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant finalist. He appeared regularly on the nationally televised aerobics workout series and video, Basic Training with Ada Janklowicz, and later became a competitive bodybuilder.

At the age of 10, Beatie started to self-identify with the male gender. At 23 years old, he began testosterone hormone treatment to transition to living life as a man.

In March 2002, Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery. The procedure he had, sometimes called “top surgery” or “chest reconstruction” involved a double mastectomy, areolar reshaping and grafting, and contouring of the chest to effectuate a male appearance.

Because he wanted to have biological children and sterilization is not a requirement to undergo a valid sex change anywhere in the United States, he kept his internal reproductive organs intact. Prior to marriage, he officially changed his name through Hawaii’s Office of the Lieutenant Governor.

He then went through the process of changing his name and sex marker from female to male on all of his state and federal documents, including his birth certificate, driver’s license, passport, and social security index.

Beatie married Nancy Gillespie in a legally valid opposite-sex marriage in Hawaii on February 5, 2003. The couple moved to Bend, Oregon in 2005, filed joint state and federal taxes and bought homes together as husband and wife. Beatie was also listed as “male” on his health and life insurance policies. As a man, he gave birth to all three of his children from 2008 to 2010.

In February 2012, Beatie elected to have “lower surgery” to further modify his body. His surgical journey, performed by transgender surgeon, Marci Bowers, was documented on his second appearance of Doctors, in 2012.

The procedure, called a Ring Metoidioplasty, included transfer of tissue, elongation of the hormonally enlarged phallus, as well as urethral construction and lengthening to create a functioning penis. Beatie is also considering a hysterectomy.