In their first interview since the birth of their daughter Susan this past summer, Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy speak candidly about the childbirth experience and raising their daughter in a non conventional family, and what the future holds for them. Barbara Walters' exclusive report airs on 20/20, FRIDAY, NOV. 14 (10-11pm, ET) on the ABC Television Network.Us Magazine
In an interview with Barbara Walters, Beatie, 34, reveals that he is in his first trimester. The interview airs on ABC's 20/20 on Friday.
He tells Walters that he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone after his daughter, Susan, was born so he could have another baby.
"I feel good," said Beatie, who is due June 12. "I had my checkups with my hormone level, as far as the HCG. And everything is right on track."
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Beatie also opened to Walters about giving birth: He said the baby was not born via Caesarean section; he was in labor for 40 hours and that his wife, Nancy, cut the umbilical cord.
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Beatie, who was born a woman, had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender from female to male, he first revealed on The Oprah Winfrey Show this past April.
Although he took hormones and lived as a man, he said he kept his female sex organs in hopes to get pregnant one day.
He said his pregnancy was a "human desire" and that as a person he has "the right to have my own biological child."
Being pregnant, said Beatie, did not make him feel more feminine.
"It doesn't make me want to go and shave my legs or something," he told Winfrey. "I'm a man, I just happen to be a pregnant man."
The most important message, said Beatie: "Different is normal and love makes a family. And that's all that matters."
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sexychica602i don't understand what he does is he technically changes his gender because that obviously means he don't want to be a women. so why is he or she doing what evesr we can call it. to be a man stick to what man do they don't get pregnant that's the difference between a man and a women. now i think he is just doing it to get publicityreport abuseposted March 20, 2009 8:02 AM PDT
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kleeHe says that he had his gender status legally changed from female to male. I don't know any natural born male that can have a child as a woman does. If you are truly living as a man, you wouldn't want to do anything a woman does with her body. And for him to say he didn't feel like a woman is complete BS. With the hormones that go through your body when you are pregnant, threport abuseposted March 5, 2009 10:38 AM PST
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Jenny Mi think its a blessing. yes the children will made fun of but thats the ignorance of the parents that will teach the child to make fun of something new and "odd".report abuseposted March 1, 2009 9:12 PM PST
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shazzilthis transveste has issues! I just feel sorry for the baby who will be confussed and teased about how he was born into this world!report abuseposted February 28, 2009 10:23 AM PST
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emilyyTHIS IS DISGUSTING!! he is a freaking man and cant get pregnant! doesnt anyone understand that hes really a woman?!?!?!?!report abuseposted February 26, 2009 11:23 AM PST
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Jolie FanI feel sorry for the poor kids w/ all the media attention these kids lives are going to be pure hell. The 'parents' will probably break up anyway from the pressure of being freaks. It irritates me that they classify her as a man just because she got her boobs cut off.report abuseposted January 29, 2009 1:47 PM PST
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asunnytoll26I just wonder being a mother of 4 how being Pregnant could not make you feel more womanly. I felt more like a women then ever when I was pregnant. Umm maybe its because MEN can't do only a WOMEN can. What a nut !report abuseposted January 29, 2009 9:15 AM PST
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cylia83So who's the daddy, if they are both woman?report abuseposted January 28, 2009 12:24 PM PST
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Blessedx5Just how stupid does the media REALLY think we are? (Obviously, *very* stupid!) He/She was born with a vagina -- so SHE is pregnant again. Would the press just STFU about this stupidity!?report abuseposted January 23, 2009 7:17 PM PST
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Emerald RiderThis He/She person is strange. If He/She wanted to have a baby then He/She should've stayed a girl!report abuseposted January 23, 2009 9:41 AM PST
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