- The man had hormone treatment to reactivate his womb
- He is one of only five ‘male mums’ in the world
- The baby is thought to have been delivered by cesarean section
By
Alex Gore
Last updated at 2:09 PM on 12th February 2012
Expecting: World’s first male mum Thomas Beatie – born Tracy Lagondino – pregnant with his first child in 2008
A man has become Britain’s first male mum despite being born a women and undergoing a sex change.
The man, who is in his thirties, gave birth last year, according to the Beaumont Society transgender support group.
The Society’s Joanna Darrell said the man had approached the group asking for advice about having a baby.
She said: ‘We had a general inquiry to the Beaumont Society.
‘The society, all it does is provide information and acts as an information hub for people to find data about specific things, and we are able to refer them to more specialist organisations.’
She added: ‘We sometimes get people coming back to say thanks for our help. He got back in touch and said he had had the baby.’
Darrell said she had referred the man to the Gender Identity Research and Education Society, is a charity that provides education, based on research into gender identity and intersex issues, to help improve the lives of those affected by the issues.
She said: ‘This is probably unique, in the two years that I have been a member of the society this is the only one that I have been able to refer on.’
It is possible for transgender men who were born women, who still have functioning ovaries and a uterus, to become pregnant while still identifying and living as men.
The man is thought to have had hormone treatment to reactivate his womb, which had not been removed during his original sex change operation.
The baby is believed to have been delivered by caesarean section but it is possible the man retained the ability to give birth naturally.
Darrell told The Sunday Times she believes he is the first British man to have given birth, and added: ‘As far as we know there is only him.’
The man is following in the footsteps of American Thomas Beatie, who became the world’s first pregnant man in 2007 and has since given birth to three children, Susan, Austin and Jensen.
New born: Thomas Beatie gave birth to his first child, Susan, in 2008
Sex change Britain
The first Briton to have sex change surgery was Roberta Cowell – born Robert Cowell – in 1951.
To be legally recognised in Britain as having changed sex, a person must apply to Gender Recognition Panel.
A successful applicant will have
to prove they have gender dysphoria and is afforded all rights and
responsibilities of their acquired gender.
These include being able to marry
someone of the opposite legal sex, retire and receive state pension at
the age appropriate to the changed gender.
They are also entitled to a new birth certificate showing his or her legally recognised gender.
The Beaumont Society is the oldest
transgender support group in the country, having been set up in 1966. It
offers help and advice to transgender people, their partners and
families.
Beatie, 38, who lives in Arizona with wife Nancy, was born a woman, Tracy Lagondino.
He
began having testosterone injections when he was in his twenties, which
lowered his voice, gave him facial hair and altered his reproductive
organs.
In 2002 he had his breasts removed and legally became a man but kept his vagina, uterus and other female sex organs so he could have children because Nancy had had a hysterectomy.
He stopped taking testosterone to become pregnant and the couple bought sperm from an anonymous donor.
Mr Beatie underwent artificial insemination and reportedly gave birth naturally.
Last year Beatie revealed he was planning to have a hysterectomy after filing for bankruptcy.
Scott Moore, a transgender man, who lives in California with his husband, gave birth in March 2010.
Israeli transgender man Yuval Topper was reported to have given birth on December 28, 2011.
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This will be one troubled child.
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Poor kid
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I really wish the media would stop pandering to these people. They are NOT men if they retained their ability to bear children quite frankly it is beginning to change my attitude towards people who have sex changes as it is ridiculous to have surgery to be another sex you supposedly should have been, only to turn around and bear a child using your previous reproductive organs. Why not get your partner pregnant using IVF if you feel that strongly about having a baby or adopt one? I am sick and tired of seeing this kind of rubbish plastered everywhere, not to mention the damage that will be done when the child sees *Daddy* still doing interviews about how they were pregnant when they’re at school, because that’s what will happen if they’re doing it now.
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If it ever happened that a man was pregnant, doctors would’ve terminated it a.s.a.p. for fear of the mans health. Instead of reactivating the womb they should’ve reactivated the brain as lots of there is lots of RAM ROM missing upstairs.
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poor baby!! so selfish this individual!!
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Seems he’s only a man when it suits. More of a giandromorph I think you will find.
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not a full male or would of had the female reproductive organs removed at the time of the sex change, what we have here is bascially a hermaphrodite
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Mankind just gets sicker and sicker.
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“There is no reason given in the article as to why the British person had the child or any mention of a partner.”- lalalalalalala, UK…That doesn’t mean there wasn’t a reason, nor is it any of our business what that reason was. I really don’t see what all the fuss is about. I think a child raised by a couple where one partner is transsexual is actually preferable to being raised by a same-sex couple.
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Gorbent Sheepgood – you forgot the wit and sarcasm.
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