clipped from: www.dailymail.co.uk Keeping the lawn in tip-top shape is a matter of pride for many men and bearded transsexual Thomas Beatie is no different - despite being seven months' pregnant.
Thomas, who was born Tracy Lagondino, said he first felt he was trapped in the wrong body when he was in his 20s and quickly went from a Miss Teen Hawaii finalist to taking testosterone and growing a beard.
The transsexual says he is carrying a child on behalf of his wife because she has had a hysterectomy.
Thomas said his first attempt to have a child resulted in an ectopic pregnancy with triplets. They had to be aborted, he said, and he lost his right fallopian tube.
"I will be my daughter's father and Nancy will be her mother. We will be a family."
"A transgender man can be pregnant because he has the same organs as a woman," said Dr Lisa Masterson, an obstetrician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Beverly Hills.