According to People Magazine local celebrity Thomas Beatie has given birth to a second child. Beatie grabbed international headlines when he, after sharing his story in an obscure magazine, he appeared on Oprah to announce that he was pregnant after living a good chunk of his adult life as a man following a sex change. 

This time around Beatie kept a lower profile and the birth story was limited to a few brief paragraphs on People’s website.

This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.

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It’s Number Two for Thomas Beatie

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
June 9, 2009

<h1>It’s Number Two for Thomas Beatie</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />June 9, 2009</p> <p>According to <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284188,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines" target="_blank">People Magazine</a> local celebrity Thomas Beatie has given birth to a second child. Beatie grabbed international headlines when he, after sharing his story in an obscure magazine, he appeared on Oprah to announce that he was pregnant after living a good chunk of his adult life as a man following a sex change.&nbsp;</p> <p>This time around Beatie kept a lower profile and the birth story was limited to a few brief paragraphs on People's website. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/its-number-two-for-thomas-beatie-2133596/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18046&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/its-number-two-for-thomas-beatie-2133596/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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