Despite his beard growth, breasts removal, and legalization of gender transition from female to male, Thomas Beatie kept his female sex organs intact in the hopes of having a child some day. Thirty-four years ago, Thomas was born as a baby girl christened Tracy in the Philippines. Later, Tracy migrated to the United States and blossomed into a beautiful young lady. She enthusiastically joined beauty pageants, eventually placing as a finalist in the Miss Teen Hawaii USA pageant. However, he soon felt the urges and desires of a man trapped in a woman’s body. After years of struggling with his sexual identity, Tracy decided to live as a man. He started wearing men’s clothes, underwent breast removal surgery and testosterone-enhancing treatment, and eventually had his gender legally changed from female to male. He assumed the new legal name, Thomas Beatie. "It was difficult for society to respect the way I felt inside if I didn’t look like a man outside. I started wearing men’s clothes and people started regarding me as a man…Sexuality is completely different than your gender…I felt more comfortable being the male gender," he said. Thomas married Nancy five years ago. Despite having children from her first marriage, Nancy could no longer have children saying, "I had endometriosis and they had to remove my womb, therefore I don’t have a womb." The couple had a difficult time finding a doctor who was willing to help them conceive. They saw nine obstetricians before one was willing to help them. Thomas did not take testosterone for two years before trying to conceive. Finally, he was impregnated with sperm from a donor. Nancy inseminated him at home with a device resembling a syringe without the needle. Generally used in feeding birds, the device was purchased from a local veterinarian. Despite being legally recognized as a man, Thomas has an intact vagina. In an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey, he confessed that his lifelong desire to have children motivated him to use his working female reproductive organs when he learned of his wife’s inability to conceive. "I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am…I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child," he told Winfrey. Neighbors from Oregon were surprised, one of them even exclaiming, "I often see Thomas out and about cutting grass. Thomas told us it was he that was pregnant. I was surprised. It’s not Nancy? It’s Thomas. I have to get my head around this." As a legally married couple, Thomas and Nancy plan to provide a happy home for their baby girl. To their harsh critics, Thomas has this to say, "Love makes a family and that’s all that matters."
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