American public speaker, author, and campaigner for transgender and sexuality issues, with a particular emphasis
on transgender fertility and reproductive rights.
Beatie came out as a transgender male in early 1997. Beatie underwent gender reassignment surgery in March 2002
and became known as “the pregnant man” after achieving pregnancy through artificial insemination in 2007.[3]
Beatie chose to become pregnant because his wife Nancy was infertile, and he did so using donor sperm.[4][5]
The couple filed for divorce in 2012. The Beatie case is the first on record in which a recorded legal male gave birth to
a lady while married, and for the first time, a court contested a marriage in which the husband gave birth.
Thomas Beatie was born female and raised in Honolulu as the first of two children. His mother, Susan Nickels
Beatie, was born in Minnesota.[6]: 16, 18 His father, of Korean and Filipino ancestry, was born and reared in Hawaii.
[6]: 20 He is related to two past United States presidents: William Henry Harrison, his fifth great-grandfather, and
Benjamin Harrison, his third great-uncle.[7][6]: 18
As a teenager, Thomas competed in the Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant.[8] He participated in karate[9] and
Taekwondo, gaining a junior championship in Taekwondo forms at the 1992 Aloha State Games.[10] He earned a
bachelor’s degree in health science from the University of Hawaii in 1996 before pursuing an Executive MBA.[11]
[Third-party source required].
