An American man has given birth to a female baby.
34 year old Thomas Beatie, who was born female but underwent gender realignment surgery, is legally male but kept his female reproductive organs after having breast surgery to remove glands and flatten his chest.
Both Mr Beatie and his daughter are said to be doing well in a hospital in Bend, Oregon. He has been married for five years to wife Nancy and was inseminated using sperm from an anonymous donor.
A source at St Charles Medical Center in Bend told ABC News in the USA that the birth was natural.
Mr Beatie made headlines around the world when he revealed in April that he was pregnant. He told chat show host Oprah Winfrey it had been his dream to one day have a child.
"I opted not to do anything with my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day," he said.
Mr Beatie grew up in Hawaii as Tracy Lagondin and was a Girl Scout, model and finalist in a teenage beauty pageant. He began to live as a man when he was in his 20s and officially changed his gender.
Mr Beatie's obstetrician, Dr Kimberly James, told Oprah Winfrey in April: "This baby is totally healthy. This is what I consider a normal pregnancy."
July 2008
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