Father of three Thomas Beatie left Hawaii to get away from weird bugs. But he moved to Arizona, home of the scorpion.
Thomas Beatie
About Thomas Beatie
Thomas Beatie is an American female-to-male transsexual. Born in Hawaii, he was raised as a girl named Tracy. Thomas transitioned to amale in the late 1990's and married his (now pending ex-) wife, Nancy, in 2003. In 2008, he garnered worldwide attention by becoming pregnant through artificial insemination—thereby expanding the human experience of pregnancy to men. Today, he is renowned as the pop-culture icon, the world’s first Pregnant Man (the first person to give birth fully documented as male and legally married to a woman), and according to Guinness World Records, the World’s First Married Man to Give Birth.
Thomas is the owner of DefineNormal.com (part social movement, part clothing company) and authored Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy. He contributes to books and magazines and is writing his second book, Being a Ninja and the Art of Parenting. He travels the world as a public speaker and lives in Phoenix, Arizona with his girlfriend, Amber Nicholas, and his three children born of him, Susan Juliette (6-29-2008), Austin Alexander (6-9-09), and Jensen James (7-25-2010).