Childbirth: Transgender man has his baby, naturally

After the astonishment and outrage, after the doubts and ethical head-scratching, a baby girl was finally born to the pregnant man. Thomas Beatie, 34, gave birth in a hospital in Bend, Oregon, last Sunday. He had been booked in for an elective caesarian, but the child came naturally four days before the agreed date. "The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby," Beatie said after the birth. "But a lot of mothers don't." The birth has revived the worldwide attention that first engulfed him when he told the world about his pregnancy in March. Though he is not the first transgender man to bear a child, he is the first to have gone public with it, appearing on Oprah Winfrey's chat show. British tabloids couldn't get enough of the story. "Womb man" blazed the Mirror, while the Daily Star adopted a more... [read full story]