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Thomas Beatie, also known as The Pregnant Man, has given birth to a girl, he confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. 

Beatie, 34, who began life as a woman and legally switched to a male identity, while preserving his female reproductive organs, and his wife Nancy, 46, welcomed a daughter at an Oregon hospital on June 29. Both Beatie and his daughter are healthy and doing well, he tells PEOPLE. 

Beatie, who took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition, made headlines around the globe last April when he announced in an exclusive interview in PEOPLE and on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was expecting a child – while legally living as a man. 

Raised in Hawaii, he spent the first two decades of his life as Tracy Lagondino, a Girl Scout, former model and finalist in a Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant. Beatie told PEOPLE that he began to dress and live as a man in his 20s, in time officially changing his gender on his passport and driver's license. 

In 2003, he legally married Nancy, a divorced mother of two who had had a hysterectomy as a result of endometriosis. 

The couple became pregnant using donor sperm and Thomas's eggs, through artificial insemination, after relocating in 2005 to Bend, Ore., where they operate a T-shirting printing business. 

Their baby girl is Thomas's first child. "The only thing different about me is that I can't breastfeed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't," he told PEOPLE. 

Despite published reports, Beatie says the baby was not delivered via C-section. He intends to publish a book about his experience this fall.

Ok, Transgender: a person appearing as, or wishing to be considered as having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex. Lamens terms, Transgender are people who feel they are in the wrong sex. As this situation, a woman who felt that she was a man and has gone through surgery and hormones to do so, YET she still has her parts below. Obviously, she had a child.

The one thing I can honestly say is transgendered people, in my opinion, want to be normal everyday people. Yes, they feel they are in the wrong sex and wrong body, but they just want to put themselves where they feel most comfortable and live their life as normal people. Tonight, you are about to see the 'circus freak' of transgendered individuals. I'm sure this person has not seen the good side of other transgendered people.

Everything, 'his' license, SS card, birth certificate, everything states male, but nothing having a penis, whether naturally nor through sex reassignment surgery, still classify you as a female? Being able to have a child, KNOWING a man cannot, doesn't that classify 'him' as a female still? Yes, hormones and taking off your breasts are a good start BUT still, the classification.

It brings to mind the movie 'Southern Comfort' about a woman who chose to live her life as a male. She had everything, as 'Thomas' including the female organs. He ended up with cervical cancer and no Dr would give him a hysterectomy due to the way he was living his life and he ended up dying from it. All he wanted to do is live life as normal, and not become center of attention.

It appears 'Thomas' is pregnant again and plans on having a child in June. I heard his wife can't have children so that is why he is doing it for her. I still do not see it, you can't have the best of both worlds…..