'Pregnant' man delivers baby girl in US: Report

Silicon Valley (US), Jul 5 (PTI) - An American man, who was
born a woman before undergoing a gender change surgery, has
given birth to a healthy baby girl at an Oregon hospital, a
media report said Friday.

34-year-old Thomas Beatie, who legally switched to a male
identity while preserving his female reproductive organs,
delivered the baby on June 29, 'People' magazine reported.

"The only thing different about me is that I can't
breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't," Beatie told
the magazine, adding that both he and his daughter were doing
well.

Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and
had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male
transition, hit headlines around the globe last April when he
announced that he a was expecting a child.

The report said 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.

Married to 46-year-old Nancy, Beatie became pregnant
using donor sperm and his own preserved eggs, through
artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend in
Oregon.

The magazine said the girl is Beatie's first child, and
he had given birth naturally, not by caesarean section. PTI