Pregnant Man On Oprah: I Have Intercourse With My Wife

Thomas the now famous transgendered pregnant man appeared on "Oprah" today and talked about the impending birth of his child. Thomas kept his female reproductive organs to one day have children. He and his wife Nancy shared their excitement and their nerves over the impending birth, and got specific with what happened to make this possible. They had trouble finding a doctor willing to take Thomas on a obstetrics patient, but did, and then used a sperm donor. Nancy delivered the sperm to Thomas at home. Thomas, 34, went off of testosterone two years beforehand so he could get pregnant. However, the testosterone, he tells a curious Oprah, had over the years enlarged his clitoris into a small penis, enabling him to have intercourse with his wife.

Read all the Thomas' appearance on Oprah on her website. He is also featured in the new issue of People magazine.

Thomas as Tracy:

Comments

[brenner21]

06:53 PM on 04/09/2008

Why is pleasure frowned upon,
while we fight wars on everything?
We're still in the spiritual dark ages

[helen]

11:03 AM on 04/07/2008

I am in no position to judge anyone. As long as they love the kid, teach him/her about being a good, kind and compassionate person, it's no skin off my back...

[dbsousa]

08:51 AM on 04/07/2008

Can someone with a better grasp of statistics graph the correlation between a poster's disgust and the post's spelling and grammar errors? I'm not suggesting a causal correlation, but perhaps there is a common cause...

[rzan]

07:03 AM on 04/07/2008

They seem like nice enough people. I wish them and their little one the best.

[Jameslyons]

03:52 AM on 04/07/2008

I'm glad for them. But I don't understand why a ftm transgendered person is being recognized as a man. I mean, socially it's polite to say their whatever gender they want, but a clitoris is a clitoris and a penis is a penis.

They are a gay couple, and she is one of the first transgendered ftm person to carry her baby. That's the important thing.

[klandish]

02:59 AM on 04/07/2008

I'm saddened but not surprised at the lack of vision from the majority of these blogs. Sexuality and identity have and will always be up for grabs.. depending on an individuals creativity and imagination. Diverse expression and societies ability to accept and hopefully embrace differences should be of paramount importance. It's that slippery slope of narrowly defining human experience that leads to cultural fascism.

[Raymondf]

10:19 PM on 04/06/2008

Most ugly thing I have ever read, and a sin.

[anythinggoes]

01:20 AM on 04/07/2008

whos fatherfromthis human??

[MiraMcB]

09:57 PM on 04/06/2008

Hey, good for them! Congratulations! Hope all goes well with the pregnancy and may they have a healthy, happy baby girl. They obviously badly want this child. They seem like nice folks. I wish them all the very best!

[anythinggoes]

01:19 AM on 04/07/2008

SICK PEOPLES, SHE IS WOMN NOT MAN!! becuse u cut ur boob mean u ar not MAN , this human still MAN, MAN NOT PREGENANT!! media spin

[huffhuffpass]

07:38 PM on 04/06/2008

"Dude looks like a lady"

[dartagnan]

03:47 PM on 04/06/2008

Thomas as Tracy looked a lot hotter than Thomas as Thomas.

[kataravita]

03:43 PM on 04/06/2008

1st she says, I don’t feel like a woman, I want 2 b a man then says “I’m a man, I feel like man, I don’t associate at all with being a woman but I'll keep my uterus just in case“, NOW she says having a baby is not a male or female feeling. Its TOTALLY a female feeling & U desire it BECAUSE YOURE A FEMALE. How dare U try 2 speak 4 men, U are not a man just because U have a huge clitoris. I could sew wings on and cut off my legs but I wouldn’t be a bird I’d be a freaky legless chick who sewed wings on her back & U ma’am are a woman with a huge clitoris and a beard - your partner is still a lesbian & U are delusional if U think this fiasco is normal. & now U get on TV & hawk this psychotic life as though it was born of love and not selfishness lust & greed. America has lost its friggin mind. As soon as U allow people to CHOOSE what sex they want 2 B instead of dealing w/ who they really are, U allow confused unstable people like this 2 take it to a level like this & open the door for the next freak who wants to kick it up a notch and have a baby w/ a dog. I pray 2 God that child can somehow find normalcy & sanity N that

[dartagnan]

05:43 PM on 04/06/2008

Why are you so angry and hostile? Do you feel insecure about your own sexuality? I'm a straight man who has been married to the same woman for almost 39 years but I don't find this story threatening at all. And, BTW, I also happen to live in Bend, Oregon, hometown of the Beaties.

[genderoutlaw]

08:52 PM on 04/06/2008

Okay, I take back what I said in my other comment. Ignorance wins again.

[sandiegoconservative]

10:32 PM on 04/06/2008

Please explain how she is ignorant, rather than just call names.

[shedances]

03:17 PM on 04/06/2008

This 'pregnant man' ~ Thomas Beatie ~ is certainly outside the range of what's considered normal male/female in our society ... but that doesn't mean he's a freak or scary (as some say). He could end up being one of the most loving, caring, nurturing father (or mother) figures around. I think, we ought to leave this couple alone, and let them be the family they so desire ... & have a right to be.

Kelli

[genderoutlaw]

03:02 PM on 04/07/2008

*applaud* Well said, though I think once they broke their story to The Advocate, any hope of being left alone kind of went down the tubes. I wonder if they anticipated this much frenzy.

[luckysun]

03:00 PM on 04/06/2008

So it's her/his solemn duty to educate the masses about pregnancy and the trans gendered. I don't find it so wondrous that someone with a uterus got pregnant. Oprah needs to stop stoking her/his ego. Being pregnant with a mustache doesn't make you some miraculous all knowing being whose story demands to be disseminated for days and days. Enough already.

[Jameslyons]

03:54 AM on 04/07/2008

Seriously, just look at my Romanian aunt. She's alway pregnant and her beard's thicker than mine.

[MalloMel]

02:56 PM on 04/06/2008

I don't see what all the hoopla is about. I don't understand why so many people feel so threatened by what this woman has chosen to do to her own body. It's not like she did it to them.

[Raymondf]

10:23 PM on 04/06/2008

It's not her/his body it's god's body, just loaned to him/her sinful.

[dartagnan]

11:07 PM on 04/06/2008

There is no god and our bodies are not any god's property -- or yours.

[toocoldout]

02:55 PM on 04/06/2008

I thought the show was excellent. I loved what Oprah said at the end that 50 years from now our society will be evolved enough to not judge people for being different, and the audience applauded when she praised them for their courage. Oprah of all people should know. Back in the 1980s when Oprah and Donahue were the only people putting gays on TV, everyone was freaked out and disgusted but after 22 years of Oprah and copy-cat shows like Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer & Jenny Jones, being gay is totally cool to the younger generation.

[NoSillyName]

04:18 PM on 04/07/2008

I disagree with your premise. I doubt that the entire younger generation is "totally cool" with being gay in the first place, but those who are more tolerant likely did not adopt that position by watching freak shows like Springer, Jones, and Lake. As for TheBigO, who the heck anointed her as Guru? I remember her humble beginnings on local Baltimore tv and, while I applaud her success, I can't stand her or her position as TrendsetterInChief. Please think about this a big more deeply. Perhaps some in the younger generation are more tolerant because more gay people are out now and almost everyone realizes they have friends, relatives, and/or coworkers who are not straight.

Oh, and by the way, these two people may or may not have started out as gay. I don't care enough about them to research when/how they met and why they've made the decisions they've made.