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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunnetmedia" data-source="post: 4544436" data-attributes="member: 3477">Pregnent Man<a href="http://[SIZE=5]abcnews.go.com" target="_blank">http://[SIZE=5]abcnews.go.com</a>[/SIZE]/Health/Story?id=6244878&page=2                 window.google_render_ad();                                                        <a href="http://www.hollywire.com/uncategorized/thomas-beatie-is-pregnant/" target="_blank">Thomas Beatie is pregnant: world’s first pregnant man!?!</a>                     Posted on 28 March 2008 by Tammy Cakes                                                 <a href="http://www.hollywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/thomas-beatie-pregnant.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.hollywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/thomas-beatie-pregnant.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> This pic is for real peeps! Disturbing, I know….The first time I saw this photo I thought, how could this be? It’s not physically possible for a man to carry a baby. And then I read that the 22 week pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, is a transgendered male. Now it all makes since. Although the image is still a little startling, I’ve got to say, good for him. Thomas Beatie recently gave an interview to the Advocate explaining who he is, his situation, and why he wanted to carry his own baby. “I am transgender, legally male, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the more than 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction and testosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have a biological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire. Our situation sparks legal, political, and social unknowns. We have only begun experiencing opposition from people who are upset by our situation. Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Health care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy’s family doesn’t even know I’m transgender.”------------------------- "Hiding a pregnant man is like hiding an 800-pound gorilla," he said of his decision to go public. "Nancy and I wanted to tell our story from our own mouths before it got out."  Thomas Beatie says he was surprised at how quickly the news of the "pregnant man" spread. "I was shocked that it looped around the world in 24 hours," he told Walters. "I mean, it was on Chinese Web sites and, you know, Web sites in Romania and Russia and Brazil." He became an instant target of the tabloids and paparazzi, and fodder for talk shows and late-night television. Some people called Thomas Beatie a freak. He received death threats, and thousands of hateful comments still litter the Internet. To this day, he continues to receive anonymous hate messages. Since Susan's birth four months ago, Thomas Beatie, 34, and his wife, Nancy Beatie, 46, have been living a quiet life in Bend, Ore., and have rarely been seen in public, keeping their blinds drawn and monitoring surveillance cameras that surround their property. Despite concerns for his family's safety, Thomas Beatie says that he won't let fear rule their lives and that he feels they are a traditional family. "We are a man, woman and child. It's ironic that we are so different but yet, we're just a family, just the same as anyone else," he said. When asked why he makes many people uneasy, Thomas Beatie said, "I think that people are not used to seeing the image of a pregnant man. And it's causing a lot of people to think. … I used my female reproductive organs to become a father." <img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/2020/nm_pregnant_man2_081112_mn.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/2020/abc_pregnant_man_081112_ssh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/2020/nm_pregnant_man3_081112_ssv.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYX7ACuTBTY[/youtube]</blockquote>

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