Congratulations to Thomas and Nancy Beatie! They are the proud parents of a baby girl.

As you are probably aware, Thomas Beatie was born a woman, named Tracy Lagondino, but she went through a sex change, having chest reconstruction and taking testosterone to develop masculine traits. Tracy kept her ovaries and uterus, which was a good thing since Beatie, 34, was able to get pregnant because his wife couldn’t.

It is reported that Thomas has given birth to a girl at an Oregon hospital. The baby was conceived through artificial insemination using donor sperm and Beatie’s own eggs.

Both Beatie and the baby are doing well, Beatie told People.

“The only thing different about me is that I can’t breast-feed my baby. But a lot of mothers don’t,” Beatie was quoted as saying by People. “I actually opted not to do anything to my reproductive organs because I wanted to have a child one day. I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am,” Mr Beatie told the TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in April. “I feel it’s not a male or female desire to have a child. It’s a human need. I’m a person and I have the right to have a biological child,” Beatie said. The couple said that their parental roles would be fairly traditional, with Beatie as the child’s father and Nancy his mother. The couple still have to face some opinions and some questions raised by people that fell offended by their decision.