Thomas Beatie: Pregnant, Exploitive Again

Published on November 14, 2008

In an recent interview with Barbara Walters, the transgender individual says he's in his first trimester.

Thomas Beatie, dubbed the "Pregnant Man," is knocked up again.

Beatie tells Walters that he didn't go back on the male hormone testosterone after his daughter, Susan, was born. The reason? He wanted to have another baby.

"I feel good," said Beatie, who is due on June 12. "I had my checkups with my hormone level, as far as the HCG. And everything is right on track."

We're happy for Thomas Beatie and her wife. But we refuse to refer to someone with female sex organs as a "man." Aren't those body parts exactly what distinguishes one gender from the other?