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The Pregnant Man

Bryan Belrad
Bryan Belrad, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Apr 3, 2008 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
Thomas Beatie, due to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show later today, is a man with a baby growing inside him.

While many scratch their heads in wonder at how this could be, the answer is simple: Thomas was born as Tina.

After his wife had to have a hysterectomy, Thomas, who still has a uterus, offered to carry the couple's baby. It was not an act of glamour-seeking, but one of love.

An interesting twist to this amazing story: Now at five months along, Thomas's insurance company has denied him prenatal care on the grounds that the baby does not exist - men cannot carry babies, after all.

However, Thomas is not the first. Another man (who was born male) is also carrying a child, even as I type. Mr. Lee Mingwei, who was impregnated in an experimental procedure, is nearing his due date. The child, growing in his abdominal cavity, has been covered by both US News & World Report and USA Today. It is developing normally.

Mr. Lee's pregnancy is part of a groundbreaking program at the RYT Hospital at the Dwayne Medical Center - the same facility that, in an effort to find a cure for Alzheimer's, accidentally created a mouse with human level intelligence.

More information on Mr. Lee's pregnancy, and Clyven the mouse, can be found at RYT's website: www.rytHospital.com

Beatie's pregnancy is expected to become a media phenomenon after today's appearance on Oprah.

Published by Bryan Belrad

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Of the three, Mr. Lee is actually the most "normal": Mr. Beatie is transgender, Clyven the mouse is transgenic; Mr. Lee is just pregnant. What could be more 'natural' than that?

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