Like all three-year-olds, Susan
Beatie is fascinated by animals.
She wants to be a vet — maybe
even a vet and a princess — when
she grows up.
At bedtime, she loves to climb onto
her father’s knee and demand a
story about a hungry caterpillar, a
greedy bee or a snail sailing away
on the tail of a whale.
But the book she loves most is
Mister Seahorse, which explains
how male seahorses become
‘pregnant’.
A quirky choice for a child, you
might think, but entirely
understandable given that this
story has been used to explain to
Susan the inexplicable: how she
came to be.
‘It’s her favourite bedtime story,’
says her father Thomas, 38. ‘I tell
her that’s what I did: I carried her
in my tummy like Mr Seahorse, and
she gets it.
‘She doesn’t think there is
anything weird about it. There is a
photograph of me pregnant, and
she points to it all the time, saying:
“Daddy, Daddy, I’m inside and I
got bigger and bigger, and then I
had to come out.” ’
It may sound like a particularly
strange sort of fairy tale, but the
story Thomas has told his
daughter about her arrival in this
world is true. The slightly-built
martial arts instructor made
history as the first ‘man’ in the
world to give birth.
Of course, as Susan will doubtless
discover one day, there was
nothing natural about it. Male
seahorses are genetically able to
carry embryos: Thomas’s
pregnancy was possible only
because he was born female.
He was in his 20s when he
underwent a sex change and
became a man. He never took the
final step of having a
hysterectomy

ewwwwwwww @ the last picture

@OP
you meant to say the WOMAN (pretending to be a man) who gave birth 3 times.

At the end of the day, it's still a lady.

End time Rubbish!