Pregnant Dudes and other such garbage.
"pregnant man" Thomas Beatie? Seems so. Pictures were released showing the 34-year-old and his "wife" Nancy posing for gay magazine Odyssey in skimpy bikinis before his operation and then, just four years later, in a mocked up wedding-style picture.
The images were released as the Hawaiian native insisted his pregnancy was real and claimed he is "perfectly capable" of giving birth - despite years of hormone treatments to make him a male.
Beatie will emerge from hiding on Thursday after reportedly striking an exclusive deal with American chat show host Oprah Winfrey to appear on her daytime program. Do tune in!
"I'm a person and I have the right to have my own biological child," he tells her, according to an excerpt released to the U.S. media.
Doctors have confirmed that Beatie's pregnancy is possible. Although he legally became a man after undergoing a sex change operation, Beatie still kept his female reproductive organs.
He and his wife, Nancy, 45, are said to show off his prominent bump on the Oprah Winfrey show and maintain that he is expecting a baby girl in July.
"Who hires a surrogate if they are perfectly capable of carrying their own child?" he says.
With his wife unable to conceive because of a hysterectomy she had after an illness, Beatie claimed he stopped taking his twice-weekly testosterone injections and started getting periods again after an eight-year break.
He used a sperm donor to get pregnant using a home insemination kit. He even told The Advocate, a U.S. magazine for gays, lesbians and transgender people, that he fell pregnant earlier with triplets but they had to be aborted because of dangerous complications.
But he admitted that he and his wife are in uncharted territory, and that they have faced opposition from family, friends and the medical profession.
"Wanting a biological child is neither a male nor a female desire, but a human desire," he said.
He will be the second transgender male to have a baby.
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