Man who gave birth is pregnant again

Thomas Beatie, a transsexual American man, said he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone after the birth of his daughter, Susan, in June 29 so he could have another baby.

"I feel good. I had my check-ups with my hormone level .and everything is right on track," he told Barbara Walters in an interview with ABC News.

Mr Beatie, 34, who lives with his wife, Nancy, in Bend, Oregon, said the baby is due on June 12.

A former Hawaiian beauty pageant finalist, he caused international controversy after he was pictured topless with a swollen stomach during his first pregnancy. He had previously posed as a muscular woman before his s*x change with a bikini-clad Nancy in 2000.

A second picture showed the couple in a wedding-style photograph taken in Honolulu in 2002.

In April, while he was expecting baby Susan, Mr Beatie told US daytime TV queen Oprah Winfrey: "I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn't define who I am." "It's not a male or female desire to want to have a child. It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to a biological child." He once boasted that the only difference between him and other mothers was that he could not breastfeed.

But even that problem appears to have been surmounted. The couple told ABC that Nancy, 46, who is infertile, has been breast-feeding Susan for the past four months.

Opinion has always been fiercely divided over Mr Beatie's claim to be a man. Mr Beatie was born female - Tracy Lagondino - before undergoing "gender reassignment" surgery and having his breasts removed.

He began taking male hormones several years ago, legally changed his gender and grew a wispy beard. However, he retained his female reproductive organs so he could one day become pregnant.

He and Nancy, who run a screen-printing business, have been together for 10 years and married for five. Since the birth of their daughter, the couple have rarely been seen in public, keeping their blinds drawn and monitoring their property with surveillance cameras.

They said their determination that Mr Beatie should be the father and Nancy the mother was thwarted by hospital staff who insisted it had to be listed as the other way around.

Mr Beatie admits they have made money from the media interest in his pregnancy and he has written a book about his life. However, he insisted they were never motivated by money.

"We've turned down about $2 million altogether from people wanting to do all sorts of things with us,'" he told ABC.

"But as far as you know, doing it for the fame, I have to say I'm infamous. I mean, who wants to be unpopular, controversial and despised?"

Pregnant Man On Oprah Winfrey Show

Remember the half man, Thomas Beatie, who had a baby a while back and was on Oprah… well he/she is back and pregnant again:

Thomas Beatie — the “pregnant man” who made headlines and gave his first exclusive interview to Oprah Winfrey and People magazine — is pregnant again. Barbara Walters — who’s profiling Beatie and his wife in a one-hour special tomorrow night on ABC called “Journey of a Pregnant Man” — revealed today on The View that during their interview, the couple said they’ll give birth again in June. “I said I’m speechless,” Walters said during the morning gab fest. Beatie — legally a man — gave birth to his first child, a baby girl, back in June. His story made world headlines and sparked a rush of comments on this blog months ago.

Ol’ TomTom is pretty much a woman with no tittays and a mustache but is living it’s life as a man. But if you want to be a man, then why physically have a baby? The “wife” does that.

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Rihanna recently collapsed while performing and was seen clutching her stomach and vomiting. So is Rihanna pregnant? Check out the video of Rihanna below.

Rihanna wasn’t feeling well and was caught on video hunched over at a Sydney, Australia, concert Friday, but her rep says it’s nothing serious.

“It was very hot at the venue, so after Rihanna’s set was over, she went off stage to sit down, catch her breath and have some water,” her rep told E! News.

Rihanna, 20, was performing her last song for the evening called “Umbrella”, with her boyfriend Chris Brown, when she quicly left the stage after finishing the last verse. T

Rihanna Pregnant With Chris Brown's Baby?

Billboard Hot 100 artist Rihanna, 20, has been dating R&B singer Chris Brown, 19, for several months now - although they've never really made any big announcements concerning it. They have, however, been photographed being very cozy and do spend quite a bit of time with each other - and it's rumored that they live together (and she's sporting a huge ring on her finger). And now it's being reported that the two are perhaps ready to make an announcement....that Rihanna is pregnant!

According to MediaTakeOut, a celebrity weekly will announce tomorrow that Rihanna and Brown are going to have a baby. The article also states that the young couple will keep the baby.

A source told MediaTakeOut that Rihanna and Chris are heading to Barbados next week to visit with Rihanna's parents. Hmm, to tell them that she's pregnant?

We'll keep you posted!

"It's a man-woman world," Oprah said to Thomas Beatie, the now renowned pregnant man, in her interview back in April. Beatie just smiled shyly and nodded in agreement.

The problem is that it is ONLY a man-woman world in our social construction of things, but not in their biological truth. There is, in fact, more diversity with regard to man and woman in the natural order of things than we humans have allowed expression for.

The couple, albeit brave, decided to go public with their story, but chose the wrong places to do so. Although the story first broke in The Advocate, where the article was written by Beatie himself, the couple then decided to grant interviews to Oprah and People Magazine at the exclusion of all other outlets.

This choice baffles me. How do you expect to sway the public towards tolerance and acceptance when you talk to the tabloid outlets? Wouldn't you get a more intelligible understanding if you decided to interview with say, The New York Times? Even though the Times has not historically covered transgender issues with a full understanding of the issues at hand, they did run a fairly representational account of the Beatie story, but it hit the streets buried in the Fashion & Style section more than two months after the story first broke.

That's how we ended up with a "pregnant man" as the headlines showed. That's also how we ended up with a very confused public about how this could have happened, thinking that a biological male gave birth. In fact, Beatie is a female-born, transgender man. He was born with female reproductive organs but partially transitioned via hormones and top surgery keeping everything from the waist below in tact.

The public outcry and tabloid headlines that ensued as a result of the breaking story reflect both the ignorance we spread when we don't explain things in a contextual manner. What the couple did was risk moving even further away from educating people around the dynamics of sex and gender.

While I would respect to the fullest extent the couple's decision to keep this family matter private, their decision to come out with the information left them with a responsibility to touch on the right talking points and not reinforce the outmoded notions of "a man, woman world."

What we can glean from this story, more than gender as a social construct, is the extent to which we are ignorant about our own gender.