People Magazine reports that Thomas Beatie, better known as the first
pregnant man, separated from his wife of nine years, Nancy. The
female-to-male transgender made the announcement on CBS’ show, “The
Doctors”.
Thomas Beatie and his wife, Nancy, seemed to be the perfect
homosexual couple. Beatie was born as a woman, but went through a
sex-reassignment surgery in 2002. Due to this intervention, Thomas
became a legal male in Hawaii; nevertheless, he preserved his female
reproductive organs because Nancy was no longer able to have children.
Thomas decided to give birth to his first child in 2007, but his
decision sparked a lot of controversies in the media and not only. He
was highly criticized after pictures of his bearded face and pregnant
belly were spread across the Internet. Despite this, Beatie gave birth
to two more children, twins Austin and Jensen, who were born in 2010.
Both pregnancies were made through artificial insemination using donor
sperm.
During the CBS show, Beatie told reporters that things are not going
so well between him and his wife. He further stated that they are
acting like all married couples with both up and down periods. At
present, Thomas and Nancy are going through a down period as they
decided to stay apart for a while.
Beatie also revealed during the show that he went through the final
stage of his female-to-male transformation, that is, he had a
phallo plasty. The medical procedure presupposes the creation of an
artificial penis, so Thomas is now a regular man. Nancy was not near
him during the surgery because the two were already separated back
then. “Nancy hasn’t seen the new me yet,” was the declaration of the
38-year-old transgender.
The last televised appearance of the family was in October last
year, when Thomas announced that he was considering a hysterectomy. You
can view the ‘Pregnant Man’s declaration in the new episode of “The
Doctors” which will air on Monday, May 7, on CBS.