Thomas Beatie, who was born as a girl but opted to live as a man, has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported on Thursday.

Betie was raised in Hawaii where he spent the first twenty years of his life as a girl named Tracy Lagondino, a Girl Scout, former model and finalist in a Miss Hawaii Teen USA pageant. In his twenties, Beatie began to dress and live as a man. He took twice-weekly doses of testosterone and had his breasts surgically removed during his female-to-male transition. Later he officially changed his gender on his passport and driver's license.

In 2003, he legally married Nancy who was a mother of two and had undergone hysterectomy as a result of endometriosis. Due to Nancy’s incapability becoming a mother again, Beatie decided to give birth to a child. He halted his bimonthly hormone injections and resumed menstruating. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using donor sperm and Beatie's own eggs.

On June 29, Beatie gave birth to a healthy girl. He told the People magazine that contrary to the reports published, he had not undergone any caesarean operation. Both, Beatie and the baby are “healthy and doing well,” People reported.

“The only thing different about me is that I can't breast-feed my baby. But a lot of mothers don't,” Beatie told the magazine. He intends to publish a book, accounting his experiences, this fall.