Is a Transgender Man Carrying a Baby?
Is a Transgender Man Carrying a Baby?

Photos with a transgender man who appears to be pregnant were posted on The Advocate’s Web site, a magazine that fights for the gay rights.

Tracy Lagondino was born a woman but she went through a sex change, having chest reconstruction and taking testosterone to develop masculine traits. She kept her ovaries and uterus. This was the way Tracy Lagondino became Thomas Beatie. The new Beatie said she was able to get pregnant using artificial insemination. Even if she looks like a man her specific female organs helped her/him to become pregnant.

Thomas Beatie and his wife Nancy have to wait four months to see their baby born.

Doctors say pregnancy for transgender persons has its own risks, especially if the patient had taken testosterone before the pregnancy or later on. This can cause male-type characteristics in the female body, said Cedars-Sinclair Medical Center obstetrician Dr. Lisa Masterson on “Good Morning America.”

"To Nancy, I am her husband carrying our child," Thomas wrote, explaining that his wife is unable to conceive, ABC News reports. "I will be my daughter's father, and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family." Beatie also labeled as “incredible” the experience of carrying a baby for his wife.

They have to face some questions and some opinions of people that fell offended by their decision.

One may ask what would be the psychological consequences of this unnatural birth. It would be difficult for a baby whose father was a woman to realize his/hers true identity. How about Freudian Theory?




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