美變性男子順利產下女嬰

Thomas Beatie, the transsexual man who made headlines after becoming pregnant, has given give birth to a baby girl today.

The birth at a hospital in Bend, Oregon, was natural, according to a source, though earlier reports saidthat Mr Beatie planned to have a Caesarean section.

"She's really cute, really pretty," the source told ABC News.

Mr Beatie, 34, was born a woman - Tracey Lagondino - but had his breasts surgically removed and began taking males hormones several years ago.

He legally changed his gender, grew a wispy beard and married a woman but retained his primary female sexual organs so he could one day get pregnant.

His wife, Nancy had had a hysterectomy some years earlier.

Mr Beatie sparked an international furore in March after he announced he was pregnant. "I feel it's not a male or female desire to have a child," he later told Oprah Winfrey on US television.

"It's a human need. I'm a person and I have the right to have a biological child."

Before becoming pregnant, Mr Beatie stopped the testosterone injections he had been receiving for his sex change.

He and his wife bought donor vials from a cryogenic sperm bank and he was inseminated at home.

Doctors say Mr Beatie is not the first transgender man to give birth. Writing in March, he said: "I will be my daughter's father and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family."

因懷孕而轟動全球的美國變性男子托馬斯•比提於昨日順利產下一名女嬰。

儘管此前有報道稱比提將選擇剖腹生產，但據一位知情人士介紹，比提在俄勒岡州本德市的一家醫院順產生下女兒。

這位知情人士在接受ABC的採訪時說：“孩子很可愛，也很漂亮。”

34歲的比提本是一名女性，名叫翠西•拉格恩蒂諾，但爲了變成男性，她於幾年前接受了胸部縮小術並開始注射雄性激素。

比提獲得法律認可的男性身份後，與一名女子結了婚。變性後比提的下巴長出一小撮鬍子，但他保留了最主要的女性性器官，所以才能懷孕。

比提的妻子南希多年前因切除子宮而無法生育。

今年三月，比提懷孕的消息在全世界引起轟動。後來他在接受奧普拉·溫弗瑞（譯者注：美國著名脫口秀主持人）的電視採訪時說：“我覺得生孩子不只是男人或女人的願望，而是人的需求。作爲一個人，我有權擁有自己的親生孩子。”

在懷孕前，比提停止注射用以維持男性特徵的睾丸激素。

比提與妻子從一個冷凍精子銀行買回精子，並在家接受了“人工受精”。

據醫生介紹，比提並不是第一個懷孕生子的變性人。今年三月比提在一篇文章中寫道：“我是女兒的父親，南希是她的母親。我們是一家人。”