Scott Parker and Hayden Cross are giving talk in the UK for having become the first transgender men to give birth in that country. They have no relationship between them, each one on their side decided to have children before undergoing sex change surgery, which once done, would make it impossible. The funny thing is that the two gave birth to their babies just weeks apart.
Although both women were born, they feel men. They have changed their name to a masculine one and make life as men, but by conserving their female reproductive organs they can gestate and give birth like any woman. It is striking to see masculinized bodies with pregnant belly, but it is something increasingly common that we should begin to accept more naturally. Is the gift of motherhood for transgender people.
The first British man to give birth
There is a sting between the two for getting the title of being the first British man to give birth. Scott Parker claims that it is him, since his baby was born seven weeks before Hayden Cross's, to whom the press had wrongly granted that title.
Hayden cross, 21, had his daughter Trinity-Leigh on June 16, conceived by artificial self-insemination thanks to a sperm donation through Facebook, as he has told The Sun newspaper. He claims that he does not feel a mother, but a father and that he will not breastfeed his daughter.
"I want society to understand this a little better so that when my baby grows up it will be more normal to say, 'Yes, my dad gave birth to me,'" Parker said.For its part, Scott Parker, a 23-year-old designer, gave birth to her daughter Sara on April 29. Unlike the case of Cross, it was not a planned pregnancy, but the result of a sporadic relationship with a friend. Upon hearing the news of pregnancy, He decided to stop his sex change treatment to have his baby and retake it later. In fact, he plans to have a masectomy to remove his breasts next year.
Both Cross and Parker have given birth to their children but do not want to be considered mothers, but be enrolled and recognized as parents, also for legal purposes.
Pregnant men
The first case of "pregnant man" that was known in the world was very popular. It was that of Thomas Beatie in 2008, an Oregon transsexual, who after undergoing an operation to remove her breasts and a testosterone treatment, decided to keep her female reproductive organs.
This allowed him, thanks to a sperm donation and artificial insemination, to gestate and give birth to his daughter. Although he was unable to breastfeed her because the breasts were removed, it was his wife, Nancy, who induced breastfeeding by breastfeeding the baby. Then he repeated the experience; he had two more children.
The so-called "second pregnant man in the world" is the case of Scott Moore, 30, also an American who, after two adoptions, had a biological son.
A German was the first man in that country to give birth to a baby. He had it at home with the help of a midwife in 2013 and was the first baby to have been registered only with a father, and without a mother. Last year we also met Trevor MacDonald, a transgender father who managed and breastfed his two babies.
The first pregnant man in Spain
In 2009, the case of the first Spanish pregnant woman, Rubén, who underwent an assisted reproduction technique and became pregnant with twins.
He became three and a half months pregnant with twins that he thought he called Rubén Noé and Luis María, but suffered an abortion that doctors blamed that the womb could not dilate to house two fetuses. "The testosterone I have been taking in recent years has been able to make the matrix harden," the frustrated father confessed then.
The gift of motherhood for them
Surely there will be more that have not come to light, but these are some of the transgender people who have wanted to live the experience of gestating and giving birth to their own children despite not identifying as women. They are men with the physical ability to conceive and give birth.
These are stories that most people reject because they are different from what is considered "normal", but society must become accustomed because they will be increasingly common.
