Pregnant man Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl

Thomas Beatie pictured mowing the lawn at seven months pregnant

　　Thomas Beatie, the transsexual man who made headlines after becoming pregnant, has given give birth to a baby girl today.

　　The birth at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, though earlier reports said that Mr Beatie planned to have a Caesarean section.

　　"She's really cute, really pretty," the source told ABC News.

　　Mr Beatie, 34, was born a woman - Tracey Lagondino - but had his breasts surgically removed and began taking males hormones several years ago.

　　He legally changed his gender, grew a wispy beard and married a woman but retained his primary female sexual organs so he could one day get pregnant.

　　His wife, Nancy had had a hysterectomy some years earlier.

　　Mr Beatie sparked an international furore in March after he announced he was pregnant. "I feel it's not a male or female desire to have a child," he later told Oprah Winfrey on US television.

　　"It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child."

　　Before becoming pregnant, Mr Beatie stopped the testosterone injections he had been receiving for his sex change.

　　He and his wife bought donor vials from a cryogenic sperm bank and he was inseminated at home.

　　Doctors say Mr Beatie is not the first transgender man to give birth. Writing in March, he said: "I will be my daughter's father and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family."

　　(Agencies)

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