A
Berlin man has become the first in Germany to give birth to a baby. He
identifies as male, but has a female reproductive system. The baby boy
was born on March 18th this year in a home birth, as hospitals are
required to write the name of the mother in their records when a child
is born. It was delivered with the help of a midwife in the Neukölln
area of Berlin. On government records the new father, who is
transgender, is registered as a man. This makes him the first male in
Germany to give birth, Berlin newspapers reported on Monday. He
reportedly became pregnant through a sperm donation, the Bild newspaper
reported. Officially the child does not have a mother, only a father.
The case is reminiscent of transgender Thomas Beatie who has given birth
to three children in the US. Transgender people are able to give birth
to children because even when a woman undergoes hormone therapy to
become more physically masculine, they can retain female sex organs.
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