Pregnant man delivers baby girl

An American man, who was born a woman before undergoing a gender change surgery, has given birth to a healthy baby girl at an Oregon hospital, a media report said on Friday. Thirty-four-year-old Thomas Beatie, who legally switched to a male identity while preserving his female reproductive organs, delivered the baby on June 29, 'People' magazine reported.

Once a hot Hawaiian girl, the man now known as Thomas Beatie has delivered a healthy baby girl. Beatie became pregnant through artificial insemination.

Married to 46-year-old Nancy, Beatie became pregnant using donor sperm and his own preserved eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend in Oregon.

Beatie, 34, who had had his breasts surgically removed and legally changed his gender from female to male.

Despite years of taking male hormones and living outwardly as a man, Beatie kept his female sex organs because he intended one day to get pregnant.