A transgender man gave birth to her firstborn after her partner has been inseminated by a donor. This spring, the 35-year-old man gave birth, proving that gender stereotype is being pushed to its limits.
Jessi Hempel shared to Time Magazine of how his brother, Evan, always wanted a child despite coming out 19 years ago. Originally born six years his junior and as a woman, Evan fulfilled her dream after several attempts of being impregnated.
In 2003, Evan came out and started to take pills to correct his body into becoming a man that he wants to be. However, he did not undergo top mastectomy because of his antibiotics allergy, and because he knew that he wanted to nurse a baby.
Evan started trying a couple of years ago, and just prior to her pregnancy, she had a miscarriage. Her Reproductive Endocrinologist, Ania Kowalik, said that the baby had no heartbeat during her first ultrasound.
This did not faze the transman. Instead, she sought to try time and again, until she and her partner derived at a healthy pregnancy through the help of pills and close monitoring by a Dedham, Mass. clinic, Fertility Solutions. After six months of taking progesterone pills, which supplied her ample hormones to keep a healthy pregnancy, Evan's son came healthily.
This is not the first time a transgender man has given birth; in fact, there is a rising number of cases like Evan's, according to the fertility clinic he has gone. In a report by The Guardian, a transman also shared her pregnancy triumphs and woes, which in the end, provided her an "empowering, healing and healthy birth."
Meanwhile, one transman was surprised to get pregnant during transition according to The Independent. At 19 years old, she found out about it after two months of taking testosterone pills.
The bold move started from the infamous Thomas Beatie, who posed for a magazine with a rotund belly, years back. Currently, the male mom is now a father of three as per The Sun. Beatie is considered the world's first pregnant man in 2008.
Sex change and fertility treatments cost as much as $42,000. On the average, these procedures cost $37,000 on women while $17,000 is estimated for men.
