Thomas Trace Beatie (born 1974 ) is an American public speaker, author, and advocate of transgender rights and … See more

Thomas Beatie was assigned female at birth and grew up in Honolulu as the first of two children. His mother, Susan Nickels Beatie, was born in Minnesota. His father, of Korean and Filipino descent, was born and raised in H… See more

Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery involving a double mastectomy, also known as "top surgery", and officially changed his sex marker from "female" to "male" on his state and federal identity documents in 2002. How… See more

Beatie received intense media attention after he wrote a first-person article in the national LGBT magazine The Advocate in 2008. In it, Beatie described the prejudice he and Nancy faced after deciding to have a child, writ… See more