Thomas Beatie is an public speaker and a transgender man of American. Most of his topics are about transgender and LGBT community. He is not only a transgender man, but also an advocate of transgender issue. The biggest difference between him and other transgender people is that he is the first trans man who have birth to his children when in a transgender dating relationship.
Beatie was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and he is the most famous transgender man in American. When he was young, he was a model and Miss Hawaii Teen USA. In fact, he has become a bit of a celebrity when he was very young. He appeared on national TV shows and competitions. He became a competitive national bodybuilder later. Beatie majored in Health Science and graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1996 with bachelor's degree. He started his career and created his progressive clothing company, Define Normal in 1997. It has also expanded in film and video industry later. He never give up his career as bodybuilder. He is a black belt boxer and won the tournament champion in Taekwondo.
The same as many transgender people, Beatie identified himself as a boy when he was 10, and he started to undergo testosterone hormone treatment when he was 23. This is an important step for him to transition to a real man. Beatie underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2003. That was a hard process for him which includes the chest surgery and male appearance surgery. He is a transgender man, but he wanted to gibe birth, so he kept his internal female organs. After that, he changed his name to Thomas Beatie, officially in ts dating field.
Beatie married Nancy Gillespie in 2003, several months after changing his name. As a man, Beatie gave birth to three kinds from 2008 to 2010. He is also the first transgender man who gives birth to his children. In 2012, after giving birth, Beatie decided to undergo lower surgery to modify his body. That was another challenge for Beatie. He changed all his female features and became a real man after that.
As a transgender man, Beatie focuses on the equal right of LGBT community. He wrote on national LGBT magazine, The Advocate, and shared the discrimination he was facing in life. Several weeks later, his story was spread throughout the whole nation. It also got attention from the international media. His unprecedented pregnancy quickly became a hot topic of international media. In April 2008, Beatie appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, which is the most famous Talk Show In American, and this was his first appearance on TV show. He talked about his pregnant and his opinions on transgender in the show. He didn't think pregnant can define him as a female, he is a man, and he has the right to have his own children.
Beatie has challenged the traditional definitions of men and women, and he is also the first one faced with this problem. His story has influenced many transgender people and even LGBT communities. He has broke the ice between being a man and a woman in ts date.