They play checkers, swim, and experiment with new cuisines together. He is still happy to be a parent, despite the publicity he received in 2008 for being “the world’s first pregnant man.”
Throughout his life, Thomas had several difficulties. He put up with being made fun of on late-night talk programs and even criticized by Barbara Walters,
ho in an interview called his pregnancy pictures unsettling. “It was difficult when my story was revealed,”
Whe remarked. People were saying things on TV and in the media that they would be fired right away if they even remotely resembled today. I can’t get over how crazy the Wild West was in those days.
Trystan Reese, a trans advocate in Oregon, said that he and others would have warned Thomas against publishing his tale if he had been more active in the trans equality movement.
