Guinness World Records named Beatie the "World's First Married Man to Give Birth" in 2010. In a TV broadcast from Rome, Italy, Guinness World Records presented him with the title of "Unico Uomo Incinto al Mondo", translated as "World's First Pregnant Man".

In 2008 Thomas Beatie became known as the world’s first pregnant man. Beatie is a transgender man born a woman on a spiritual level who became impregnated by a sperm donor in 2007.

But not Thomas Beatie. On this day in 2008, he became the world’s first pregnant man to give birth to a healthy baby girl. The American, who is transsexual, was born a woman named Tracy Lagondino, but underwent gender reassignment surgery and now lives as a man.