Thomas Beatie | Transgender Man

Thomas Beatie is a public speaker, author, and transgender rights advocate. He focuses his advocacy on transgender fertility and reproductive rights. Assigned female at birth, Beatie came out in 1997 as a trans man and underwent gender reassignment in 2002. In 2007, Beatie gained international fame when he became the first-ever man to become pregnant. Dubbed as the Pregnant Man, he decided to get pregnant and underwent artificial insemination in 2007 following the news that her wife Nancy was infertile. Beatie was able to give birth to four children inside their marriage. However, Beatie and his wife sought help from their lawyers after their filed for legal separation in 2012. The couple was once again in the news after their separation case is recorded as the first of its kind, where the court challenged the marriage where the husband was the one who gave birth.

Following the end of his marriage, Beatie began getting active in LGBT community campaigns. He was a former chair for the Civil Unions-Civil Rights Movement in Honolulu, Hawaii, and has helped in the organization of the March of Equality. He is also the author behind the best-selling book Labor of Love: The Story of One Man’s Extraordinary Pregnancy, which was released in 2008.