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 18 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 mid-wife in in the Neukolln 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,
He reportedly became pregnant through a sperm donation.
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 organs.
Born Tracy Lehuanani LaGondino, Beatie was born and raised in Honolulu, Huwaii, the first of two children.
His mother was from San Francisco, and of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent.
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