Thomas Beatie is the Pregnant Man

Pregnant man! This is different! Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man who says he is pregnant, told his story in The Advocate magazine. An American man who used to be a woman says he’s more than five-months pregnant with a girl. ( see video below)
Thomas Beatie, a transgendered man who lives in Oregon, tells his story in a first-person account published in The Advocate — a magazine for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people.

In the story, Beatie reveals that he is legally male and married to a woman named Nancy.

“Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights,” he says in the article.

Beatie said he stopped taking his testosterone injections to get pregnant. He claims to have already gone through an ectopic pregnancy.

Beatie said it was a “life-threatening event” that resulted in the loss of all the embryos (he had triplets) and his right fallopian tube.

Now, his second time getting pregnant, Beatie says the pregnancy is free of complications.

PREGNANT WOMAN MEETS PREGNANT MAN

A pregnant woman meets a pregnant man and they lament over the travails of being with child and giving birth.

The amazing pregnant man

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pregnant man interview

Janice
I remember seeing it last year on Saturday Night Live. I thought I was hot.

Mr. Lee
But, he still did it for laughs. I think many drag queens who were pinched to the subversion of drag – the shock value of it – are somewhat upset at how mainstream it has become. And meanwhile, I see many transvestites who are still marginalized by both gay and straight people. If you're a man who in fact wants to become a woman, without the intent of performing or putting on a show, then you're still considered weird.

Janice
How would you respond to people who would judge you a pregnant transvestite and not a pregnant man?

Mr. Lee
Well, it's not actually accurate. I'm still male afterall – biologically and anatomically. It's interesting that some people believe the meaning of being a man is so precarious! And unlike the men who feel this strong desire to bodily become women, I've never wished for that ... and I haven't done that. I have, however, always wanted to have a much stronger empathy with women. I love my mother and sister very much, and I'm very glad to share in something they have both experienced. Being pregnant is a wonderful feeling. It's something that all human beings – both men and women – should experience before they die. This process has been a spiritual rebirth for me.

Pregnant Man - What If

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Janice
I can tell you that my father for one would have donated all his internal organs before even entertaining the idea of getting pregnant.

Mr. Lee
Yes, it's attractive that many men feel very endangered by this idea. Men getting pregnant used to be a big joke – a point of ridicule. Someone was telling me about this popular American film where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character became pregnant. The humor was based on the sheer absurdity of such a distinct feminine condition being imposed on somebody who represented the ultimate paradigm of Western masculinity. It seems like something rooted in a preoccupation with very traditional gender role assumptions. There was also an episode of The Cosby Show, apparently, where the male characters dreamed they were all pregnant. Now that pregnant men are a reality, no one is laughing any longer!

Janice
I was thinking about how a lot of sitcoms, particularly in the 70's and 80's, were always filled with men dressing up women to get laughs. But when men in real life in fact wanted to dress up as women, they were usually harassed or beaten up.

Mr. Lee
That's a good analogy. Drag was once measured something provocative, bizarre, and unnatural. Now we even have the mayor of New York dressing up as a woman on live television. Did you hear about that?

The World's First Male Pregnancy

Mr. Lee Mingwei is the first human male in history to gestate a fetus within his own body. This procedure was made possible through a phase II clinical trial at RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center in New York City. This seven-minute video is an excerpt from a feature film documentary, produced by Doc en Stock/Arte France and directed by Sophie Lepault and Capucine Lafait.

The Pregnant Man Interview

Janice

Mr. Lee, as we just discussed, male pregnancy may show to be an very unsafe medical procedure at this point – mainly when your doctors perform your Cesarian operation. Why have you chosen to do this?


Mr. Lee

Many people have dogs this endeavor as something terribly hideous – a startling example of how science and medication have basically gone too far. From my perspective, however, I am simply bringing a baby into this humanity. There is nothing more ordinary and good-looking on this earth than that. This is something that I've always wanted to do.


Janice

But surely you know why some people find the idea of a pregnant man upsetting?


Mr. Lee

Well, I know how it may be a shocking idea at first. Biologically, women have constantly given birth to children, and men have not. Despite the dramatic results of the sexual revolution in the latter half of this century, there are still very distinct and concrete social roles determined by this... until now... undeniable biological fact. Now, it seems, we have several important questions to consider. Why shouldn't men carry children and care for a fetus the same way a women does? Why shouldn't a man bear a burden that women have always carried? On the other hand, why shouldn't a man be able to practice the same happiness and thrill that a pregnant woman feels nurturing a child within her own body? Now I think men, as well as women, have more choices, more potential, more roles they can believe in their lives.

AMAZING! Pregnant Man Gives Birth

Pregnant Man Gives Birth

The Pregnant Man

In the years from the time when the first "test tube baby" was born in 1978, physicians from RYT Hospital have been running to increase a viable system for the victorious impregnation of male individuals. Illustration is a recent radiographic picture of Mr. Lee, the first human being subject to try this process, which shows the healthy fetus increasing in his abdominal cavity.


In vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques were used to persuade an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under the peritoneum (the surrounding lining). Here is step-by-step process.
HORMONES
Oral doses of female hormones were administered to Mr. Lee to make him open to the pregnancy.



IMPLANTATION

IVF techniques were used to encourage an ectopic pregnancy by implanting an embryo and placenta into the abdominal cavity, just under or into the peritoneum. There is a harsh risk of huge hemorrhage when the ectopic ruptures; this is also the the majority general cause of women dying in pregnancy.



EMBRYO GROWTH

Once implantation was complete, Mr. Lee clogged taking hormones, because the pregnancy itself, as likely, took over. The embryo secretes sufficient hormones to continue its own development and growth.



GROWTH OF THE FETUS

The period of the pregnancy has been unexpectedly normal, i.e. fetal heart monitoring, chorionic villus sampling, ultrasound scanning and a constant watch over Mr. Lee's health and his enlarging stomach. "Men, as they grow older," Dr. Winston of London's Hammersmith Hospital observed humorously, "have already learned to cope with a steadily expanding waistline. Granted, well, this is a bit different."



DELIVERY

The delivery will require open surgery to get rid of the baby and the placenta. Removal of the placenta is the real risk because it forms such intimate connections with surrounding vessels that very big hemorrhage is likely. Implantation may have also be concerned to other structures in the abdomen, including the bowel and it is possible that parts of other organs may need to be removed.