世界首位孕夫求離婚無門

The transgender man whose 2007 pregnancy caused international controversy is back in the headlines, this time for a divorce dispute.

變性男子托馬斯在2007年因懷孕生子引起全世界的關注，而現在他再一次成了媒體頭條，原因卻是離婚無門。

It is reported that an Arizona judge is questioning the validity of Thomas Beatie's marriage to his wife Nancy, deeming the couple's union to be a same-sex one, which isn't legal in the state. The couple, who tied the knot in 2003, represented themselves as a heterosexual pair at the time because Thomas reportedly had a state-authorized sex change with legal documentation prior to the wedding.

據報道，亞利桑那州的法官對托馬斯-比提和妻子南希婚姻的合法性提出質疑，法官認爲這是同性婚姻，在亞利桑那州並不合法。托馬斯和南希於2003年結婚，當時被認爲是異性婚姻，因爲托馬斯在婚前已經擁有了政府承認的合法的變性手續。

Though both his birth certificate and U.S. passport identify Beatie as a man, he has since given birth to three children and hence, the judge isn't convinced by the legal documentation and is still deliberating as to how to proceed.

儘管托馬斯的出生證明和美國護照上都認定他是男性，但是他卻懷孕生養了三個孩子，這一點讓法官認爲他的合法身份證明不可信，從而使得托馬斯的離婚程序變得相當複雜。

At the time of the separation, Beatie told People magazine, "Like all marriages, we have our ups and downs, and we’re going through a rough patch right now. At the moment, we’re separated." He also revealed that he had completed final female-to-male gender reassignment surgery at the time, adding, "Nancy hasn’t seen the new me yet."

托馬斯-比提在分居期間，曾對《人物》雜誌說，“和所有的婚姻一樣，我們的婚姻也存在起起伏伏，而現在我們正在經歷一個大坎。現在，我們處於分居狀態。”托馬斯還自爆自己現在已經完成了全部的變性手術，“而南希還沒有見過嶄新的我。”

Beatie was deemed "the world's first pregnant man" when he appeared in a series of 2007 photos with a scruffy beard and a baby bump.

托馬斯之前因爲“世界上第一個懷孕爸爸”而爲人知曉，他留着鬍子、挺着大肚子的照片曾在2007年登上過各種頭條。