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 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. However, he retained his See more

Beatie again attracted media attention when a court in Arizona cited his pregnancies as grounds to refuse to grant him and Nancy a divorce in 2012. Thomas initially filed for See more

Beatie's pregnancy has challenged social and legal definitions of what constitutes being a man or a woman. Beatie's story helped promote … 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 … See more

In 2000–2001, Beatie was the co-chair and media chair for the Civil Unions-Civil Rights Movement in Honolulu, Hawaii, a non-profit LGBT organization for marriage equality. He helped … See more

Shortly after Susan was born, Beatie authored his first book, Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy (2008). In … See more