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A gay dad Trystan Reese who lives in
Portland, Oregon, U.S., is pregnant and about to give birth after he suffered a
heartbreak following a miscarriage at six weeks in 2016.
Biff Chaplow and Trystan Reese are already adoptive
parents to two young children Riley and Hailey but have spoken of their delight
as they prepare to welcome their first biological child.
They adopted children are Biff’s niece and nephew and the
gay dads agreed to take them in after his sister suffered substance abuse
problems in 2011.
But the couple had always longed for a baby of their own.
They had considered waiting up to a year before trying again after the 2016
miscarriage.
But because of the medical complications of Trystan having
to go off testosterone they decided to continue.
The married couple have confirmed Trystan is due to give
birth in the summer.
In a post on their website, Trystan said that he felt some
people are interested to know why he wanted to become pregnant as a transgender
person, but were too afraid to ask.
He said that some people think “trans people were born
into the wrong bodies, and we really hate our bodies, and that’s why we need to
transition.”
“For me, just transitioning normally – taking testosterone
so that I have a beard and my voice is deep as its ever gonna get – and appear
like a man… that’s enough for me.
“I never felt like I needed to change my body.
“And I for sure do not hate my body
“I feel like my body is awesome, I feel like it’s a gift
to have been born with the body that I did.
“So if you can start to understand that, then it starts to
make more sense that it would not seem totally bizarre for me to want to create
and carry a baby.”
Speaking to the WNYC podcast, the Longest Shortest
Time , Biff said both of them had been very “cautious” in the early stages of
the pregnancy.
According to Mirror, Trystan weighed himself “obsessively”
and kept taking repeated pregnancy tests.
Ahead of the six-week test, Trystan called the doctor to
tell them he was a trans-dad and worried about what the experience would be
like.
He said: “I can feel someone looking at my face and searching
for the remnants of womanhood,” Trystan told the podcast.
“They kind of squint their eyes a little bit and I can
tell they’re trying to take away my beard, they’re trying to de-transition me
in their heads.”
But the pair said those fears were unfounded as they have
had nothing but positivity from medics.
They now know they will be expecting a little boy and are
already joking that it’s “diagnosis male”.
Source: NAN
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