Have you heard about the story of the first ever man in the world to get pregnant? Well, it sounds a little insane, but it’s true.
A man named Thomas Beatie who was born as a woman named Tracy Lagondinoback in 1974, was hailed as the first ever man in the world to get pregnant, not just once, not just twice, but thrice!
Beatie had gender reassignment surgery in March 2002 and became known as "the pregnant man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007.Beatie chose to be pregnant because his wife Nancy was infertile, doing so with cryogenic donated sperm. Beatie has since given birth to four 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 heterosexual marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth.
Thomas claims that he was born as a girl, but he knew it then that he wanted to be a man, so at the age of 20, he began taking testosterone injections.
In March 2002, Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery involving a double mastectomy, also known as "top surgery", and officially changed his sex marker from "female" to "male" on his state and federal identity documents. Prior to marriage he legally changed his name.
Beatie married Nancy Gillespie in Hawaii on February 5, 2003. The couple moved to Bend, Oregon, in 2005. When the two decided to start a family, Beatie chose to carry the child, since Nancy was unable due to a prior hysterectomy. He was able to become pregnant, having retained his female reproductive organs.
Beatie suspended testosterone hormone treatment in order to conceive but the first conception was an ectopic pregnancy with triplets that was life-threatening, requiring a surgical intervention and the loss of the embryos and his right fallopian tube. He became successfully pregnant afterwards, twice with donor sperm, delivering both children without complications.
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