MAN GIVES BIRTH

Thomas Beatie, also known as The Pregnant Man, gave birth to a girl last Sunday.

Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs. Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in PEOPLE and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was expecting a child – while legally living as a man.

Raised in Hawaii, he spent the first two decades of his life as Tracy Lagondino, a Girl Scout, former model and finalist in a Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant. In 2003, he legally married Nancy, a divorced mother of two who had had a hysterectomy as a result of endometriosis. The couple became pregnant using donor sperm and Thomas's eggs, through artificial insemination. Their baby girl is Thomas's first child. Despite published reports, Beatie says the baby was not delivered via C-section....WTF??

He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall....BIG SURPRISE!