Israeli transgender man gives birth to baby

in: http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/01/04/israeli-transgender-man-gives-birth-to-baby/

An Israeli man and his partner are celebrating the birth of their child after he delivered at Sheba Medical Center Thursday evening. Yuval Topper, 24, a transgender man, reportedly stunned medical personnel when he walked into the facility appearing in every way a man, ready to give birth, Israeli newspaper Y Net is reporting.

Topper is the first Israeli man to give birth to a child. His story is similar to an American family whose husband, Thomas Beatie, gave birth to the couple’s first child in 2008.

Topper delivered his baby at Sheba Medical Center. On delivering, the couple explained, “We preferred to go to Hadassah Mount Scopus, a hospital where we received excellent treatment in the past, but we were forced to head to Sheba as result of the birth’s quick progress. The staff at the hospital treated us with dignity and consideration.”

Topper had previously been admitted as an emergency patient at Sheba Medical Center.

“Everyone was in shock,” said another patient who was also at the hospital upon Topper’s arrival. “He looked like a man in every way and insisted that medical staff address him as a male.”