A film and TV studio has won worldwide rights to produce a documentary about Thomas Beatie, the man who was born a woman and gave birth last month in Oregon.

September Films, a division of London-based DCD Media Plc, triumphed over four other production companies to obtain exclusive rights to Beatie's story for the 60 minute documentary, which it will produce for Channel 4, as announced on Thursday.

The DVD rights will be marketed globally, and already has resulted in sales in the United States and Germany.
A company website said Channel 4 and NBDtv/DCD have together invested about $600,000 in the documentary.
Beatie, 34, give birth to a girl June 29 at a hospital in Oregon, where he lives with his wife of five years. Read about it here

Born Tracy Lagondino, Beatie has mentioned to media that he is writing a memoir about his conflicted youth in Hawaii, during which his mother committed suicide and he participated in Girl Scouts, beauty contests and martial-arts.

September Films said its documentary would explore Beatie's childhood and struggle with sexual identity, his pregnancy, the birth of his daughter and their arrival home "to face the world's media."

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