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Two gay partners, Biff Chaplow and Trystan Reese, are set to welcome their first biological child this summer after they announced that Reese, is pregnant.
Mirror
reports that Chaplow and Resee made the incredible announcement that
they are preparing to
welcome their first biological child, a baby boy,
to the delight of the LGBT world.
Reese who is transgender first managed to conceive in 2016 but they suffered a miscarriage at six weeks.
They
had considered waiting up to a year before trying again but because of
the medical complications of Reese having to go off testosterone, they
decided to continue.
The
couple who are legally married and live in Portland, Oregon, United
States of America, have confirmed Reese is due to give birth in the
summer.
In a post on their website, the pregnant man 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
added that some people think trans people were born into the wrong
bodies, and they hate their bodies, leading to the desire to transit.
"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, Chaplow said both of them had been
very cautious in the early stages of the pregnancy with Reese weighing
himself obsessively and kept taking repeated pregnancy tests.
Ahead
of the six-week test, Reese called the doctor to tell them he was a
trans-dad and worried about what the experience would be like.
"I
can feel someone looking at my face and searching for the remnants of
womanhood. 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," Reese said in the Podcast.
However, the couple said those fears were unfounded as they have had nothing but positivity from medics.
Watch the video they made while making the announcement here.
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