Beatie decided to switch sexes when he was 24 - he had his breasts surgically altered - but opted to keep his reproductive organs.

"I wanted to have a child one day," he said. "I didn't know how, and I had no plan laid out. It was just a dream.

"I have a very stable male gender identity," he said. "I see pregnancy as a process. It doesn't define who I am."

Beatie said he was actually pregnant once before, about a year ago, but lost what could have been a "multiple pregnancy" due to complications.

After about a half-hour of chatting, Winfrey brought up the question everyone wanted answered.

"Let's get to the penis part," she said. "Did you have a penis implant?"

"No. Amazingly, hormones are an incredible thing," Beatie said, explaining that his intake of testosterone enlarged his sex organs.

"It looks like a small penis . . . and I can have intercourse with my wife."

Ok, I thought from reading from the responses from page one that he had the surgery to give him a penis, when in fact the hormones he was taking enlarged his ummm...woman parts.

It's all very strange.