Thomas Beatie

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| name = Thomas Beatie

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}}{{r|Trebay 2008}}

| birth_place = Oahu, Hawaii, United States

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| nationality = American

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{{marriage|Nancy Gillespie|2003|2012|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Amber Nicholas|2016}}

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| website = {{URL|http://definenormal.com}}

| children = 4

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Thomas Trace Beatie (born 1974{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/fashion/22pregnant.html |title=He's Pregnant. You're Speechless |work=The New York Times |date=June 22, 2008 |first=Guy |last=Trebay |archive-date=May 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516142044/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/fashion/22pregnant.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}) is an American public speaker, author, and advocate of transgender rights and sexuality issues, with a focus on transgender fertility and reproductive rights.{{r|Goldberg 2009}}

Beatie came out as a trans man in early 1997. Beatie had gender-affirming surgery in March 2002 and became known as "the pregnant man" after he became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2007.{{r|Worthen 2016}} Beatie chose to be pregnant, with donated sperm,{{r|Goldman 2009|Beatie 2008a}} because his wife Nancy was sterile.

The couple filed for divorce in 2012. The Beatie case is the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a marriage to a woman, and for the first time, a court challenged a marriage where the husband gave birth.

Early life

Thomas Beatie was assigned female at birth and grew up in Honolulu as the first of two children. His mother, Susan Nickels Beatie, was born in Minnesota.{{r|Beatie 2008b|pp=16, 18}} His father, of Korean and Filipino descent, was born and raised in Hawaii.{{cite book |last=Beatie |first=Thomas |title=Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy |date=2008 |publisher=Seal Press |location=Berkeley, Calif. |isbn=978-1-58005-287-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/laboroflovestory00beat/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater |url-access=registration}}{{rp|20}} He is related to two former U.S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, his fifth great-grandfather, and Benjamin Harrison, his third great uncle.{{cite news |title='Pregnant man' living in Arizona |url=https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/pregnant-man-living-in-arizona/67-377048579 |publisher=WSTP |agency=Gannett News Service |publication-place=Tampa Bay, Fla. |date=November 9, 2011}}{{r|Beatie 2008b|p=18}}

As a teenager, Thomas was a model and Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant finalist.{{cite news |last1=Goldberg |first1=Alan B. |last2=Thomson |first2=Katie N. |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6244878&page=1#.UU8y5e1eH8t |title=Barbara Walters Exclusive: Pregnant Man Expecting Second Child |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928123337/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6244878&page=1#.UU8y5e1eH8t |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |work=ABC News |date=November 13, 2008 |url-status=live}}

He competed in karate{{cite magazine |last1=Coleman |first1=Jim |title=Tabura's Labors Bear Fruit at Fifth Festival of the Kings |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=79IDAAAAMBAJ&q=lagondino |magazine=Black Belt |issue=12 |volume=31 |date=December 1993 |issn=0277-3066 |page=48}} and Taekwondo, winning a junior championship in Taekwondo forms in the 1992 Aloha State Games.{{cite book |last1=Cisco |first1=Dan |title=Hawai'i Sports: History, Facts, and Statistics |date=1999 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-2121-0 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=s4QWvle-CR8C&q=lagondino 576]}}

He graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in health science and later pursued an Executive MBA.{{Third-party inline|date=February 2022}}

Gender transition and pregnancies

Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery involving a double mastectomy,{{r|Cavalcante}} also known as "top surgery",{{r|Worthen 2016}} and officially changed his sex marker from "female" to "male" on his state and federal identity documents in 2002.{{r|Worthen 2016}}{{cite book |last=Forbes |first=Alexis |editor1-last=Peterson |editor1-first=Dana |editor2-last=Panfil |editor2-first=Vanessa R. |title=Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice |date=2013 |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4614-9187-3 |page=399 |chapter=Define 'Sex': Legal Outcomes for Transgender Individuals in the United States}} However, he retained his female reproductive organs, which later allowed him to become pregnant.{{cite book |last1=Rutter |first1=Virginia |last2=Schwartz |first2=Pepper |title=The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities |date=2012 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=978-0-7425-7003-0 |pages=121–122 |edition=2nd}}{{r|Trebay 2008}}{{cite news |last1=Goldman |first1=Russell |last2=Thomson |first2=Katie |title='Pregnant Man' Gives Birth to Girl |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5302756&page=1 |access-date=February 26, 2022 |work=ABC News |date=February 19, 2009}}

Beatie married Nancy Gillespie in 2003.{{cite web |last1=Stritof |first1=Sheri |last2=Stritof |first2=Bob |url=http://marriage.about.com/od/celebritymarriages/p/thomasbeatie.htm |title=Thomas Beatie and Nancy Roberts |website=about.com |date=March 29, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511104356/http://marriage.about.com/od/celebritymarriages/p/thomasbeatie.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2013}} The couple moved to Bend, Oregon, in 2005.{{r|Beatie 2008b|p=181}} When the two decided to have children, Beatie chose to carry the child, since Nancy was unable due to a prior hysterectomy.{{r|Hilton-Morrow & Battles}} Beatie suspended testosterone hormone treatment in order to conceive but the first conception was an ectopic pregnancy with triplets that was life-threatening, requiring a surgical intervention, loss of his right fallopian tube and the embryos.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2008/03/14/labor-love |last=Beatie |first=Thomas |title=Labor of Love: Is society ready for this pregnant husband? |magazine=The Advocate |date=April 8, 2008 |page=24 |issn=0001-8996 |archive-date=July 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713122121/http://www.advocate.com/news/2008/03/14/labor-love |url-status=live}} He became successfully pregnant afterwards, twice with donor sperm, delivering both children without complications.{{cite book |last=Feldberg |first=Dov |editor-last=Legato |editor-first=Marianne J. |title=Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era |date=2017 |edition=3rd |publisher=Academic Press |location=London |isbn=978--0-1280-3542-9 |page=61 |chapter=Fertility Treatment and Preservation in Transgender Men and Women |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-803506-1.00053-X}} Beatie delivered his first child in June 2008.{{cite book |last1=Worthen |first1=Meredith G. F. |last2=Dirks |first2=Danielle |title=Sexual Deviance and Society: A sociological examination |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Abingdon, UK |isbn=978-1-138-81906-1 |page=93 |chapter=Gender and Deviance}}

Beatie stated that he felt no conflict between his pregnancy and his gender as a man,{{r|Rutter 2012}}{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Eve |title=Gender Circuits: Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-0-415-63854-8 |page=237 |edition=2nd}} saying that he considered himself the child's father and his wife Nancy the mother.{{cite book |last1=Tropp |first1=Laura |title=A Womb with a View: America's Growing Public Interest in Pregnancy |date=2013 |publisher=Praeger |location=Santa Barbara, Calif. |isbn=978-1-4408-2809-6 |pages=87–88}}

He gave birth to his second child, a son, in 2009.{{Cite news |last1=Goldberg |first1=Alan B. |last2=Thomson |first2=Katie N. |date=June 9, 2009 |title=Exclusive: 'Pregnant Man' Gives Birth to Second Child |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7795344&page=1 |website=ABC News |language=en |archive-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611111936/https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=7795344&page=1 |url-status=live}} The couple's third child, a second son, was born in July 2010.{{r|Stritof}}{{cite web |last=Beatie |first=Thomas |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TixtVKWZTrY |title=Pregnant Man's - Thomas Beatie's - Third Baby - Official Page |via=YouTube |type=video |date=July 31, 2010 |archive-date=November 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103110131/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TixtVKWZTrY |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/first-known-transgender-man-to-give-birth-delivers-third-child/story-e6frg12c-1225900419051 |title=First known transgender man to give birth delivers third child |date=August 3, 2010 |website=Perth Now |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805180922/http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/first-known-transgender-man-to-give-birth-delivers-third-child/story-e6frg12c-1225900419051 |archive-date=August 5, 2010}}

Beatie later elected to have "lower" surgery, including the creation of a functional penis.{{r|Worthen 2016}} The procedure, performed by transgender surgeon Marci Bowers,{{cite web |url=http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videolib/init/6620 |title=Meet A Gender Reassignment Surgeon |type=video |website=thedoctorstv.com |date=May 9, 2012 |archive-date=January 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109001443/http://www.thedoctorstv.com/videolib/init/6620 |url-status=usurped}} was documented on his second appearance of The Doctors, in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/show_synopsis/1026?section=synopsis |title=Exclusive: The Pregnant Man's Shocking Update! |website=thedoctorstv.com |date=May 1, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109001242/http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/show_synopsis/1026?section=synopsis |archive-date=January 9, 2014}} The procedure, called a ring metoidioplasty, included transfer of tissue, elongation of the hormonally enlarged phallus, as well as urethral construction and lengthening.{{cite web |url=https://www.aol.com/video/view/thomas-beaties-gender-reassignment-post-surgery-concerns/517353981?on=1 |title=Thomas Beatie's Gender Reassignment Post-Surgery Concerns |work=The Doctors |type=video |via=aol.com}}{{Time needed|date=February 2022}}

Media attention

Beatie received intense media attention after he wrote a first-person article in the national LGBT magazine The Advocate in 2008.{{cite book |last1=Hilton-Morrow |first1=Wendy |last2=Battles |first2=Kathleen |title=Sexual Identities and the Media: An Introduction |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=978-0-415-53296-9 |pages=244–245}}{{cite book |last=Cavalcante |first=Andre |title=Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life |date=2018 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-1-4798-8130-7 |pages=72–73}} In it, Beatie described the prejudice he and Nancy faced after deciding to have a child,{{r|Shapiro 2015}} writing:

{{blockquote|Doctors have discriminated against us, turning us away due to their religious beliefs. Health care professionals have refused to call me by a male pronoun or recognize Nancy as my wife. Receptionists have laughed at us. Friends and family have been unsupportive; most of Nancy's family doesn't even know I'm transgender."{{r|Rutter 2012|Beatie 2008a}} }}

The article was accompanied by a shirtless photograph of the pregnant Beatie,{{r|Cavalcante}} which became an object of voyeurism among the public according to the queer theorist Jack Halberstam.{{r|Hilton-Morrow & Battles}} Within weeks of the online publication, news of his story quickly spread through national{{cite web |url=http://www.katu.com/news/local/17002811.html?tab=video&c=y |title=Is the story of a pregnant man legit? |publisher=KATU |publication-place=Portland, Ore. |date=March 25, 2008 |archive-date=February 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223221327/http://www.katu.com/news/local/17002811.html?tab=video&c=y |url-status=dead}} and international media,{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1725808,00.html |department=Time World |title=Quotes of the Day |magazine=Time |date=March 27, 2008 |archive-date=February 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204215231/http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,1725808,00.html |url-status=dead}} who dubbed Beatie "the pregnant man".{{r|Worthen 2016|Forbes}}

Beatie made his first television appearance, an hour-long exclusive interview, on the Oprah Winfrey Show in April 2008.{{cite web |author= |url=https://people.com/tv/people-oprah-exclusive-the-pregnant-man-speaks-out/ |title=PEOPLE & Oprah Exclusive: The Pregnant Man Speaks Out |work=People |date=April 2, 2008 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044451/https://people.com/tv/people-oprah-exclusive-the-pregnant-man-speaks-out/ |url-status=live}} During the show, he talked about his sense of reproductive right to bear a child independent of his male gender identity. He commented, "It's not a male or female desire to want to have a child [...] it's a human desire [...] I'm a person, and I have the right to have my own biological child."{{r|Feldberg 2017|Cavalcante}}{{cite web |url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Top-14-Most-Unlikely-Oprah-Shows-in-25-Years/11 |title=14 Most Unlikely Oprah Shows |website=Oprah |date=March 31, 2011 |archive-date=May 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521012213/http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Top-14-Most-Unlikely-Oprah-Shows-in-25-Years/11 |url-status=live}} The Oprah episode received a spike in Nielsen ratings.{{cite web |last=Albiniak |first=Paige |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/syndication-ratings-pregnant-man-sends-oprah-back-stratosphere-32135 |title=Syndication Ratings: Pregnant Man Sends Oprah Back to Stratosphere |website=NextTV |date=April 15, 2008 |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628075741/https://www.nexttv.com/news/syndication-ratings-pregnant-man-sends-oprah-back-stratosphere-32135 |url-status=live}} The same month, Beatie was profiled in a six-page story in People,{{cite book |last1=Erickson-Schroth |first1=Laura |last2=Davis |first2=Benjamin |title=Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know |date=2021 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-19-088003-3 |page=85}} with photography by Mary Ellen Mark.{{cite magazine |last=Tresniowski |first=Alex |title=He's Having A Baby |magazine=People |date=April 14, 2008 |issn=0093-7673 |pages=54–60}}

Multiple tabloids as well as mainstream news outlets reported the story,{{r|Tropp 2013}} after paparazzi captured images of the family leaving the St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon days later.{{cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pregnant-man-gives-birth-to-bouncing-baby-girl-and-father-and-daughter-are-doing-well-6825522.html |title=Pregnant Man gives birth to bouncing baby girl… and father and daughter are 'doing well' |website=Evening Standard |location=London |date=July 4, 2008 |archive-date=April 6, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406195005/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/pregnant-man-gives-birth-to-bouncing-baby-girl-and-father-and-daughter-are-doing-well-6825522.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/03/pregnant-man-no-longer-pregnant/ |title=Pregnant Man No Longer Pregnant! |website=TMZ |date=July 3, 2008 |archive-date=April 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429022440/http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/03/pregnant-man-no-longer-pregnant |url-status=live}} People{{'}}s senior editor, Patrick Rogers, gave an interview to the CBS Early Morning Show about the birth.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4234033n |title='Pregnant Man' Gives Birth |work=CBS News |date=July 4, 2008 |type=video |archive-date=April 23, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423174135/http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4234033n |url-status=dead}} An August 2008 issue of People featured Beatie with his daughter, sharing the cover with a larger image of presidential candidate Barack Obama posing with his family.{{cite web |url=http://archive.people.com/people/archive/jpgs/20080804/20080804-750-0.jpg |title=People Magazine cover for August 4, 2008 |work=People |date=August 4, 2008 |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214155132/http://archive.people.com/people/archive/jpgs/20080804/20080804-750-0.jpg |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://people.com/archive/the-pregnant-man-gives-birth-daddys-little-princess-vol-70-no-5/ |title=The Pregnant Man Gives Birth 'Daddy's Little Princess' |work=People |first=Champ |last=Clark |date=August 4, 2008 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044643/https://people.com/archive/the-pregnant-man-gives-birth-daddys-little-princess-vol-70-no-5/ |url-status=live}}{{pb}}

Journalist Barbara Walters announced on The View in November 2008 that Thomas was expecting his second child. The next day, ABC aired an interview with the Beaties on 20/20 titled "Journey of a Pregnant Man".{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/video?id=6257558 |title=What Is a Man? What Is a Woman? |website=ABC News |date=November 14, 2008 |type=video |archive-date=September 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906010723/http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video?id=6257558 |url-status=live}} During the interview, Walters showed a series of photographs of Beatie, commenting on the "disturbing" nature of the images, many of which highlighted his pregnant belly.{{r|Hilton-Morrow & Battles}}

Guinness World Records named Beatie the "World's First Married Man to Give Birth" in 2010.{{r|Worthen 2016}}"First Married Man to Give Birth", Guinness World Records, 2010 edition, p 110" In a TV broadcast from Rome, Italy, Guinness World Records presented him with the title of "Unico Uomo Incinto al Mondo", translated as "World's First Pregnant Man".{{cite web |url=http://www.tvblog.it/galleria/lo-show-dei-record-2010-terza-puntata-sec-parte/59 |title=Lo Show dei Record 2010 – Terza Puntata [sec. parte] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407002037/http://www.tvblog.it/galleria/lo-show-dei-record-2010-terza-puntata-sec-parte/59 |archive-date=April 7, 2015 |url-status=live |website=tvblog.it |date=August 29, 2020 |language=it}}

Beatie also appeared on The View,{{r|Shapiro 2015}} Good Morning America,{{r|Shapiro 2015}} a Discovery Channel documentary,{{r|Shapiro 2015}} Anderson Live with Anderson Cooper,{{cite web |url=http://www.andersoncooper.com/2012/11/15/videos-snooki-loves-being-a-mom-bow-wow-talks-fatherhood-and-more/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628104603/http://www.andersoncooper.com/2012/11/15/videos-snooki-loves-being-a-mom-bow-wow-talks-fatherhood-and-more/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 28, 2013 |title=Anderson Live: 'Pregnant Man' on His Complicated Divorce |website=andersoncooper.com |date=November 15, 2012}} Larry King Live,{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/18/lkl.beatie.qanda/index.html?iref=allsearch#cnnSTCVideo |title='Pregnant Man' and wife: We're a normal couple |publisher=CNN |date=November 17, 2008 |archive-date=February 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207181455/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/18/lkl.beatie.qanda/index.html?iref=allsearch#cnnSTCVideo |url-status=live}} Oprah: Where Are They Now?,{{cite episode |url=http://www.oprah.com/own-where-are-they-now/The-Pregnant-Mans-Life-Today-Video |title=The Pregnant Man's Life Today |series=Oprah: Where Are They Now? |network=Oprah Winfrey Network |season=1 |number=106 |type=video |via=Oprah.com |date=November 27, 2012 |archive-date=November 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130220933/http://www.oprah.com/own-where-are-they-now/The-Pregnant-Mans-Life-Today-Video |url-status=live}} and repeat features on The Doctors{{cite web |url=http://www.thedoctorstv.com/main/show_synopsis/877?section=synopsis |title=The Pregnant Man: After the Baby |website=thedoctorstv.com |date=October 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109023234/http://www.thedoctorstv.com//main/show_synopsis/877?section=synopsis |archive-date=January 9, 2014}} and Dr. Drew.{{cite web |last=Schenek |first=Dan |work=Dr. Drew |url=http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/05/17/who-do-pregnant-mans-kids-call-him |title=What do Pregnant Man's kids call him? |publisher=HLN |date=May 17, 2012 |archive-date=July 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708081919/http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/05/17/who-do-pregnant-mans-kids-call-him |url-status=usurped}}{{cite web |author= |url=http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/08/14/pregnant-mans-divorce-struggle |title='Pregnant Man' on divorce: 'I'm confused' |work=Dr. Drew On Call |publisher=HLN |date=August 15, 2012 |archive-date=November 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124015808/http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/08/14/pregnant-mans-divorce-struggle |url-status=usurped}}{{Primary source inline|date=February 2022}}

Between August and November 2016, he was a contestant in the tenth season of Secret Story, the French adaptation of Big Brother; his secret was "I'm the first pregnant man ever." He placed 2nd of all the contestants with 28% of the televote in the final.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Beatie owns a website and T-shirt company featuring the slogan "Define Normal".{{r|Worthen 2016}} He has made personal appearances on TV talk shows in Spain, Greece, Germany, Italy, Romania, Russia, Japan, Sweden, Poland, and the United Kingdom,{{cite web |url=http://www.definenormal.com/PregnantMan/Home.html |title=Thomas Beatie: World Public Speaker, Author, Educator, Advocate, Producer, Pop Culture Icon: The Pregnant Man, Visionary, & Family Man |website=Definenormal.com |archive-date=October 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031010655/http://www.definenormal.com/PregnantMan/Home.html |url-status=dead}}{{Third-party inline|date=February 2022}} and has given keynote speeches at colleges and universities.{{cite web |url=http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/thomas-beatie-discusses-pregnancies-lgbt-issues/ |title=Thomas Beatie discusses pregnancies, LGBT issues' at Northwestern University |website=northbynorthwestern.com |date=February 24, 2013 |archive-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601203033/http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/thomas-beatie-discusses-pregnancies-lgbt-issues/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last1=Roney |first1=Holly |last2=Sherkat |first2=Mojgan |url=http://www.americanownews.com/story/21926493/pregnant-man-speaks-at-uts-diversity-week |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628105059/http://www.americanownews.com/story/21926493/pregnant-man-speaks-at-uts-diversity-week |archive-date=June 28, 2013 |title='Pregnant man' speaks at UT's Diversity Week |website=America Now |publisher=ITV Studios America |date=April 10, 2013 |url-status=usurped}}

Legal precedent and divorce

Beatie again attracted media attention when a court in Arizona cited his pregnancies as grounds to refuse to grant him and Nancy a divorce in 2012.{{r|Shapiro 2015|p=238}}

Thomas initially filed for legal separation,{{cite web |last=Emery |first=Debbie |url=http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/11/pregnant-man-thomas-beatie-opens-struggle-more-children-anderson-cooper/ |title='Pregnant Man' Thomas Beatie Opens Up About His Struggle To Have More Children |website=RadarOnline |date=November 24, 2012 |access-date=May 30, 2013}} which was afterward converted to a divorce motion by Nancy. News of the break-up with his wife was leaked to tabloids during an April taping of the talk show The Doctors.{{cite web |last=Fleeman |first=Mike |url=https://people.com/celebrity/pregnant-man-separates-from-wife/ |title=Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie and Wife Separate |work=People |date=April 19, 2012 |archive-date=April 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427084710/http://people.com/celebrity/pregnant-man-separates-from-wife/ |url-status=live}} Thomas was awarded temporary sole custody of his three children and ordered to pay alimony.{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9539522.htm |title=Arizona Court Recognizes Transgender Marriage: World's First Married Pregnant Man Is Awarded Sole Legal Child Custody |website=PRWeb |date=May 24, 2012 |archive-date=August 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830053829/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9539522.htm |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9833344.htm |title=Pregnant Man Thomas Beatie's Divorce Judge Orders Expert Testimony on Marriage Legality |website=PRWeb |date=August 24, 2012 |archive-date=November 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130153648/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/8/prweb9833344.htm |url-status=dead}}

During the divorce proceedings, the presiding judge stated that because Beatie had given birth to the couple's children, he was legally female and therefore the marriage was not recognized in the state.{{r|Forbes}} Arizona Superior Court Judge Douglas Gerlach issued a nunc pro tunc order questioning whether the court had jurisdiction over the matter. The Beatie case was the first of its kind on record, where a documented legal male gave birth within a marriage to a woman, and the first time a court challenged a marriage based upon a husband's giving birth.{{cite web |last=Moseley |first=Fields |url=http://www.azfamily.com/news/Pregnant-man-in-divorce-court-for-precedent-setting-case-189323871.html |title=Pregnant Man in divorce court for precedent-setting case |website=azfamily.com |publisher=KTVK |date=February 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204032154/http://www.azfamily.com/news/Pregnant-man-in-divorce-court-for-precedent-setting-case-189323871.html |archive-date=February 4, 2013}}{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2012/12/12/pregnant-mans-divorce-case/1765359/ |title='Pregnant Man's' divorce case leaves judge in doubt |work=USA Today |date=December 12, 2012 |first=Michael |last=Kiefer |archive-date=March 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318201729/http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2012/12/12/pregnant-mans-divorce-case/1765359/ |url-status=live}} {{block indent|left=1|Published in The Arizona Republic as: {{cite news |author= |title='Pregnant man' in legal limbo |newspaper= |date=December 13, 2012 |page=A1 |issn=0892-8711}} }} At the time, Arizona did not legally recognize same-sex marriage, so if Beatie were found to be female according to Arizona statute, the ten-year Beatie marriage would not be recognized in that state.{{cite news |last1=Billeaud |first1=Jaques |title=Questions over sex change snag Arizona divorce |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/questions-over-sex-change-snag-arizona-divorce/ |access-date=February 26, 2022 |work=Las Vegas Review-Journal |agency=Associated Press |date=January 1, 2013}}

Beatie's attorneys at the Cantor Law Group filed a memorandum showing that under Arizona State Statute, a transgender man's legal definition is set by certain medical operations, treatments, and finally a certified doctor's approval. "Since Arizona and Hawaii have virtually the same Sex Change Statute, in this case we will prove that under the law Thomas was a man at the time of his wedding. Sterilization is not a requirement of either State's Statute. Under both Arizona's and Hawaii's law Thomas was a man at the time of his marriage, and therefore his three children born during the marriage are legitimate", stated attorney, David Michael Cantor. Judge Gerlach ordered an evidentiary hearing and oral argument for which the Transgender Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Beaties' marriage, stating that the case could be significant regarding marriage, divorce, and reproductive rights for transgender people in the state of Arizona and around the country.{{cite news |url=http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/3038 |title=Thomas Beatie Marriage Case |newspaper=Transgender Law Center |date=March 29, 2013 |archive-date=May 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527001847/http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/3038 |url-status=live |author1=Admin}} Expert testimony was provided by Beatie's sex-reassignment surgeon, Dr. Michael Brownstein M.D., in which the doctor implied that gender is more psychological than chromosomal{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}. He also attested that the chest reconstruction procedure Beatie had undergone qualified as a sex-change surgery.

In 2013, a trial was heard to determine custody, child support, and division of property and debts, even though Arizona is not a common-law state.{{cite news |last=Sign |first=Christopher |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/pregnant-man-thomas-beatie-appeals-no-divorce-ruling |title='Pregnant man', Thomas Beatie appeals no-divorce ruling |website=abc15.com |publisher=KNXV-TV |date=April 2, 2013 |archive-date=April 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406020744/http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/pregnant-man-thomas-beatie-appeals-no-divorce-ruling |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://marriage.laws.com/common-law-marriage-arizona |title=Common Law Marriage Arizona |website=laws.com |archive-date=June 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602091319/http://marriage.laws.com/common-law-marriage-arizona |url-status=live}} Despite the marriage's being put into question, the courts proceeded with custody arrangements for the children because both Beatie and Nancy legally adopted each of their three children in Oregon, in the Oregon court orders, Thomas was also listed as "father" and Nancy was listed as "mother" on each birth certificate, and each spouse had equal parental rights to custody.{{cite web |last=Kendrick |first=Keith |url=http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/07/astonishing-pictures-emerge-of-man-giving-birth-for-the-third-time-thomas-beatie/ |title=Astonishing pictures emerge of MAN giving birth for the THIRD time |website=parentdish.co.uk |date=March 7, 2012 |archive-date=February 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207140657/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2012/03/07/astonishing-pictures-emerge-of-man-giving-birth-for-the-third-time-thomas-beatie/ |url-status=dead}}{{Better source needed|date=February 2022}}

The court ruled that it had a lack of subject-matter jurisdiction to grant the Beaties a divorce and that Arizona did not have to comply with accepting out-of-state birth or marriage certificates. Despite medical testimony stating otherwise, Judge Gerlach did not consider gender identity, hormone treatment, and chest reconstruction as a valid sex-change surgery, as grounds for successful gender transition. "If adopted, (it) would lead to circumstances in which a person's sex can become a matter of whim and not a matter of any reasonable, objective standard or policy, which is precisely the kind of absurd result the law abhors." Beatie's attorney said the judgement contained several errors.{{cite web |url=http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/01/56254.htm |title=Arizona 'Pregnant Man' Can't Get Divorced in Arizona |website=courthousenews.com |date=April 1, 2013 |archive-date=April 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406135752/http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/01/56254.htm |url-status=live}} The court also ruled to give Nancy joint legal decision-making, physical custody and equal parenting time, ordering Beatie to pay her nearly $240 per month in child support. Since the marriage was not considered valid in Arizona alimony was not further enforced, though the division of property was.{{cite web |url=http://www.nathanlawoffices.com/news/-pregnant-man--to-appeal-after-judge-denies-divorce-20130417.cfm |title="Pregnant Man" to Appeal after Judge Denies Divorce |website=nathanlawoffices.com |date=April 17, 2012 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145139/http://www.nathanlawoffices.com/news/-pregnant-man--to-appeal-after-judge-denies-divorce-20130417.cfm |url-status=live}}

In 2014, an Arizona Appeals Court declared that the marriage of the Beaties was valid and therefore they can get divorced, stating that Beatie should not have had to be sterilized in order to be legally recognized as a man in Arizona or Hawaii.{{cite web |last=Molloy |first=Parker Marie |website=The Advocate |url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/08/14/two-trans-men-come-away-major-court-victories |title=Two Trans Men Come Away With Major Court Victories |date=August 14, 2014 |archive-date=November 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119200336/http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/08/14/two-trans-men-come-away-major-court-victories |url-status=live}}

LGBT activism

In 2000–2001, Beatie was the co-chair and media chair for the Civil Unions-Civil Rights Movement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a non-profit LGBT organization for marriage equality. He helped organize and implement an island-wide, seven-day, 110-mile March for Equality.{{cite web |last=Adamski |first=Mary |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/01/13/news/story8.html |title=Round-the-isle March Seeks End to Bias Against Gays |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000259/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/01/13/news/story8.html |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |website=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=January 13, 2001 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Adamski |first=Mary |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/01/23/news/story5.html |title=Downtown Park Hosts Two Groups of Believers |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715042428/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2001/01/23/news/story5.html |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |website=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=January 23, 2001 |url-status=live}} He also lobbied to pass the state's first hate crimes legislation,{{cite web |last=Arakawa |first=Lynda |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jun/14/ln/ln25a.html |title=Hirono Signs State's First Hate-crime Law |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714170554/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jun/14/ln/ln25a.html |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |website=Honolulu Advertiser |date=June 14, 2001 |url-status=dead}} which became law in 2001.{{cite press release |url=http://mphawaii.tripod.com/HateCrimesLaw/HateCrimesBill.pdf |title=Acting Governor Hirono Signs Bill Toughening Sentences for Hate Crime Offenders |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714183755/http://mphawaii.tripod.com/HateCrimesLaw/HateCrimesBill.pdf |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |via=mphawaii.tripod.com |date=June 13, 2001 |publisher=Office of the Lieutenant Governor |location=Honolulu |url-status=live}}

In August 2011, he was the main opening speaker for Stockholm Pride, speaking to an audience of tens of thousands. He also spearheaded one-on-one discussions with doctors, politicians, and policy-makers in support of abolishing the sterilization law for Swedish transgender people.{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.se/35286/20110801/#.UT9fVO1eH8s |title='Pregnant Man' to Open Stockholm Pride |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911101334/http://www.thelocal.se/35286/20110801#.UT9fVO1eH8s |archive-date=September 11, 2012 |website=thelocal.se |date=August 1, 2011 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.se/35338/20110803/#.UU5PFe1eH8s |title=Liberals Push for End to Sex Change Sterilisation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606114325/http://www.thelocal.se/35338/20110803#.UU5PFe1eH8s |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |website=thelocal.se |date=August 3, 2011 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.stockholmpride.org/en/Journal/Festivalen-2011/Monday/Thomas-Beatie/ |title=Meet Thomas Beatie |website=stockholmpride.org |date=August 2, 2011 |archive-date=April 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413130332/https://www.stockholmpride.org/en/Journal/Festivalen-2011/Monday/Thomas-Beatie/}} Sweden's forced sterilization law for transgender people was overturned on December 19, 2012.{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sweden-transgender-sterilization-law-overturned_n_2472925 |title=Sweden's Transgender Sterilization Law Overturned, Declared Unconstitutional |website=HuffPost |date=January 14, 2013 |access-date=February 26, 2022}}

Cultural impact

Beatie's pregnancy has challenged social and legal definitions of what constitutes being a man or a woman.{{r|Worthen 2016|Trebay 2008}}{{cite web |last=Petrow |first=Steven |url=https://indyweek.com/news/wrap-head-around-pregnant-man/ |title=How to Wrap Your Head Around the Pregnant Man |website=Indy Week |date=April 30, 2008 |access-date=February 26, 2022}} Beatie's story helped promote transgender issues in the media; other trans men had given birth before Beatie, but were neither reported on nor legally recognized as male.{{r|Feldberg 2017}} Many media outlets treated Beatie's pregnancy as a "freak show", according to media scholar Andre Cavalcante.{{r|Cavalcante}} Some bloggers were hostile toward Beatie.{{r|Shapiro 2015|pp=238–9}} Women's studies researcher Eve Shapiro writes that media coverage of Beatie's pregnancy ranged from "educational" to "reactionary",{{r|Shapiro 2015|pp=238–9}} and that Beatie "redefines what it means to be a man and perhaps even challenges the binary gender paradigm".{{r|Shapiro 2015}} Media studies scholar Laura Tropp writes that Beatie's experience "forces society to debate the idea of what is a man and what is a woman".{{r|Tropp 2013}} Sociologist Lisa Wade wrote, "I'm not sure what to make, sociologically, of the attention that Thomas' pregnancy is receiving in the mass media, but it is ripe for analysis."{{r|Worthen 2016}} People Magazine described Beatie as a "pop culture icon" in the magazine's special edition 1000 Greatest Moments In Pop Culture 1974-2011.{{r|People 1000}} His legal case is also a precedent-setter for the ability of transgender people to exercise their constitutional right to reproduce and be recognized as their legal gender post transition.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}

Publications

Shortly after Susan was born, Beatie authored his first book, Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy (2008).{{r|Beatie 2008b}} In Labor of Love, Beatie describes the fight for his right to have a child. Publishers Weekly said the book was "A compelling, unique narrative". Book List praised it as "Unforced and unpretentious", and the New York Times called it "Defiant and transformative".{{cite web |url=http://www.thomasbeatie.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116004915/http://www.thomasbeatie.net/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 16, 2012 |title=Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy |website=thomasbeatie.net}}{{Third-party inline|date=February 2022}} His other works include:

{{cite magazine |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2008/03/14/labor-love |last=Beatie |first=Thomas |title=Labor of Love: Is society ready for this pregnant husband? |magazine=The Advocate |date=April 8, 2008 |page=24 |issn=0001-8996}}
{{cite web |first=Thomas |last=Beatie |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/WL75Pr/sveriges-lag-hade-gjort-mig-barnlos |title=Sveriges lag hade gjort mig barnlös |trans-title=Sweden's Law Would Have Made Me Childless |language=sv |website=Aftonbladet |date=July 31, 2011}}
{{cite book |title=The New Transsexuals: The Next Step in Human Evolution |first1=Thomas |last1=Beatie |first2=George |last2=Petros |pages=34–43 |publisher=PetrosIdeas |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-9855018-1-5}}
{{cite web |url=http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-good-life-dad-v-scorpion/ |title=Dad v. Scorpion |first=Thomas |last=Beatie |website=goodmenproject.com |date=January 5, 2013}}
{{cite book |title=Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Workplace: A Practical Guide |editor-first=Christine |editor-last=Duffy |chapter=Beyond Binary |first=Thomas |last=Beatie |year=2014 |publisher=Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. |location=Arlington, Va. |isbn=978-1-6174-6300-6}}

In media

=Film=

The documentary Pregnant Man (2008) documented the final weeks of Beatie's pregnancy and the birth of his first child.{{cite AV media |title=Pregnant Man |publisher=Discovery Health |date=November 18, 2008 |type=TV movie}}{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYX7ACuTBTY |title=The Pregnant Man {{!}} Pregnant Man's Diary {{!}} Channel 4 |publisher=Channel 4 |via=YouTube |type=video |date=December 4, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2013}} The documentary was the highest rated show for Discovery Networks for 2008.{{cite web |url=http://www.collinsave.com/about-us |title=Collins Avenue, Executive Consultant for "Pregnant Man" documentary |website=collinsave.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913205008/http://collinsave.com/about-us |archive-date=September 13, 2014 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.septemberfilms.com/recentproductions.asp?id=209 |title=September Films production of the Pregnant Man documentary |website=septemberfilms.com |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411091131/http://www.septemberfilms.com/recentproductions.asp?id=209 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arc7FLzuouwU |title=DCD Media PLC DCD Final Results |publisher=Bloomberg |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714213056/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=arc7FLzuouwU |url-status=unfit}} The documentary continues to screen worldwide.{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pregnant-man-documentary_n_111959 |title=Pregnant Man Documentary May Go To Discovery |website=HuffPost |date=July 10, 2008 |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628160150/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pregnant-man-documentary_n_111959 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-beatie-idUSL107413020080711 |title='Pregnant Man' documentary in the works |work=Reuters |date=July 10, 2008 |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924134144/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/11/us-beatie-idUSL107413020080711 |url-status=live}}

In 2015, French director Jan Caplin wrote and directed the short movie Hippocampe, inspired by Thomas Beatie and his wife's attempts to have a child.{{cite web |url=http://jeunesse.gironde.fr/jeunesse/jcms/c_40811/court-metrage-hippocampe |title=Département de la Gironde - Court métrage Hippocampe |website=jeunesse.gironde.fr |date=October 7, 2015 |archive-date=June 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621073816/http://jeunesse.gironde.fr/jeunesse/jcms/c_40811/court-metrage-hippocampe |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://art-dn.wixsite.com/art-dn/hippocampe |title=Site de l'association Art DN - Hippocampe |website=art-dn.wixsite.com/art-dn/hippocampe |date=June 2, 2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112142309/http://art-dn.wixsite.com/art-dn/hippocampe |url-status=live}}

=Other media=

In May 2010, London sculptor Marc Quinn unveiled a 10-foot marble statue of a pregnant Beatie.{{cite news |last1=Hattenstone |first1=Simon |title=Marc Quinn: Just don't call it a freak show |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/may/01/marc-quinn-interview |work=The Guardian |date=April 30, 2010}}{{cite web |author= |title=Picture It: Extreme Bodies of Work |url=https://www.popsugar.com/love/Marc-Quinn-Exhibit-Features-Sculptures-Pamela-Anderson-Thomas-Beatie-Michael-Jackson-8338526 |website=Popsugar |department=Love & Sex |date=May 7, 2010 |access-date=February 26, 2022}}

Beatie's other media appearances include:

Barbara Walters' Top 10 Fascinating People of 2008{{cite web |url=http://www.celebuzz.com/barbara-walters-names-most-fascinating-s68571/ |title=Barbara Walters Names Her Most Fascinating Friends |website=celebuzz.com |year=2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012141039/http://www.celebuzz.com/barbara-walters-names-most-fascinating-s68571/ |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |url-status=dead}}
Details Magazine: 40 Most Influential Men in the World{{cite web |url=http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/200811/power-list-thomas-beatie |title=2008 Power List: 40. Thomas Beatie |website=Details |year=2008 |archive-date=April 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426122213/http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/200811/power-list-thomas-beatie |url-status=live}}
20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominee: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Outstanding Talk Show Episode nominee, "The Pregnant Man": subject Thomas Beatie{{cite web |url=http://thequod.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-on-glaad-media-awards-2008.html |title=Spotlight on: The 2008 GLAAD Media Awards |website=thequod.blogspot.com |date=January 27, 2009 |archive-date=April 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419211607/http://thequod.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-on-glaad-media-awards-2008.html |url-status=live}}
2009 Time Magazine: Time 100 Finalist{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1883653_1883921,00.html |title=The 2009 Time 100 Finalists: The Pregnant Man--Thomas Beatie |magazine=Time |date=March 19, 2009 |archive-date=May 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523132704/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1883644_1883653_1883921,00.html |url-status=dead}}
People Magazine: Pop Culture 1000 Greatest Moments 1974–2011{{cite book |title=People: 1000 Greatest Moments In Pop Culture 1974-2011 |date=October 25, 2011 |page=132 |publisher=Liberty Street |isbn=978-1-6032-0185-8}}
2008 People Magazine: 11 Most Shocking Moments{{cite web |url=https://people.com/celebrity/11-most-shocking-moments-of-2008/ |title=11 Most Shocking Moments of 2008 |work=People |date=November 20, 2008 |archive-date=September 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922152025/http://people.com/celebrity/11-most-shocking-moments-of-2008/ |url-status=live}}
Advocate Magazine: People of the Year 2008{{cite web |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2008/12/02/wanda-sykes-thomas-beatie-kick-advocates-people-year?page=0,1 |title=Wanda Sykes, Thomas Beatie Kick Off Advocate's People of the Year |website=The Advocate |date=December 2, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002533/http://www.advocate.com/news/2008/12/02/wanda-sykes-thomas-beatie-kick-advocates-people-year?page=0,1 |url-status=live}}
Time: The Top 10 Everything of 2008{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1862262_1862270,00.html |title=The Top 10 Everything 2008: Top 10 Oddball News Stories, #1 Pregnant Man |magazine=Time |date=November 3, 2008 |archive-date=May 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526043834/http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1862262_1862270,00.html |url-status=dead}}
Huffington Post: Top 20 Trans Pioneer of 2011{{cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2011_n_1101681.html#s475756&title=Thomas_Beatie |title=Transgender Day of Remembrance 2011: 20 Trans Pioneers, Thomas Beatie |website=huffingtonpost.com |date=November 20, 2011 |first=Noah |last=Michelson |archive-date=March 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323122520/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2011_n_1101681.html#s475756&title=Thomas_Beatie |url-status=live}}
Oddee.com: Handsome Men (Who Were Born Female){{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Beverly |url=http://www.oddee.com/item_98038.aspx |title=10 Handsome Men (Who Were Born Female) |website=oddee.com |date=January 18, 2012 |archive-date=June 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613161854/http://www.oddee.com/item_98038.aspx |url-status=live}}

References

External links

{{official website|http://www.ThomasBeatie.com}}
[http://marcquinn.com/artworks/single/thomas-beatie1 "Thomas Beatie"], sculpture by Marc Quinn
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